Holy Cow Batman!  Did I have fun last week or what? 
Without a doubt, the MVP Summit 2008 was the most fun and productive conference I've ever attended.
Not only did we get to hang out with the CRM Product Group for two full days, but the CRM MVPs had an absolute blast hanging out together [...]

As you know, CRM 4.0 introduced multi-language features into the product.  This means a slight change in the way we retrieve metadata related to Entity names.
The DisplayName property for an Entity has been changed slightly to ensure that you always have access to the localized version of the Entity name.  A sub-property called UserLocLabel has [...]

I found a minor issue with the URL that allows you to generate WSDL for the CRM Online Discovery Service.
If you navigate to Settings, Customization, Download Web Service Description Files, you're presented with the following set of links:

The Discovery Web Service link is:
https://crm.dynamics.com/MSCrmServices/2007/Passport/CrmDiscoveryService.asmx
when it should be:
https://dev.crm.dynamics.com/MSCRMServices/2007/Passport/CrmDiscoveryService.asmx
A minor issue but hopefully this note will save [...]

I ran into an issue this morning testing one of my CRM add-ons.  Basically, I was processing items from an inbound, email-enabled Queue within CRM. When the processing was completed, I delete the Queue item - but it still remained in the Queue.  You could not longer open it, and as far as CRM was [...]

My friend Steve Noe has updated the standard Quote template that ships with CRM 4.0 to correct some design issues.
Check it out.

If you have access to PartnerSource or CustomerSource, you can take a look at the CRM-related articles released in the past month or so.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM New Knowledge Base Articles for February 2008View the complete list of the Microsoft Knowledge Base articles that were published in the past three months for Microsoft Dynamics CRM.https://mbs.microsoft.com/public/insights/ReadArticle.aspx?rcpt_id=14889435&ja_id=46237
Microsoft Dynamics [...]

The MVP Summit is in a couple of weeks and I am really looking forward to seeing my MVP and product team friends again.
I was looking through the session list and I can tell right now, Thursday afternoon of that week, the probably that my brain will be filled to over capacity and will explode [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]