Morning Folks,
Well, after roughly two and one-half years, I've finally completed the first major update to my blog.
I changed the theme to make it more current and to brighten it up a bit.
I updated the blog engine to the current stable version of WordPress to capture some of the newer capabilities that have been added.
Finally, […]

Love those WordPress guys and their sense of humor:

Greetings Everyone,
I'm going to spend some quality time this weekend updating my blog to the newest WordPress engine, changing the theme, etc.
So, if you hit the site during this period you may experience strange visual results and the RSS feeds may contain test posts as I verify I've moved my modifications over to the new […]

I found a handy site today that lists version numbers for Microsoft SQL Server and what is installed to obtain a specific version:
http://www.sqlsecurity.com/FAQs/SQLServerVersionDatabase/tabid/63/Default.aspx

I haven't really done much with SharePoint since I started working with CRM.  Basically, my brain can only hold so much information and I decided to fill it with CRM instead of SharePoint.
Anyway, I still read up on SharePoint and have people that I know that are neck-deep into it.  I was having a conversation […]

A stranger was seated next to a little girl on the airplane when the stranger turned to her and said, 'Let's talk.
I've heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.'
The little girl, who had just opened her book, closed it slowly and said to the stranger, 'What […]

The third trunk of this popular tree was cut down a couple of years ago after the top had broken off.  Someone finally got creative with the stump.
Pretty good job, I think.

I ran into an interesting issue yesterday at one of my customers.  They have two CRM servers and a forwarding mailbox for each server.  The setup looks like this:
 

 
We had an issue with the second CRM server, which just went into production, where inbound mail wasn't being sent to CRM.  Looking at the forwarding […]

I was out of the office for a week and decided to catch up on my blog reading this afternoon. While reading one of Scott Hanselman's posts when I took his advice to read the post "What does it take to be a grandmaster" by Jeff Moser.  Jeff's article mentioned a Time Magazine article entitled […]

This week, at Convergence 2008, I attended several sessions on performance and optimization.  I thought it would be a good idea to summarize the performance and optimization tools and documentation released by Microsoft for both 3.0 and 4.0.  If I missed anything, please let me know.

 
CRM 4.0
Optimizing and Maintaining Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
This white paper […]