We've just released a new "Developer Ramp up Kit" for developers who want to get up to speed into Dynamics CRM 4.0!.   Over the past 18 months, we‘ve conducted dozens of Instructor-Led trainings for our ISVs worldwide to get them ramped up for CRM 4.0 platform (code named “Titan”). The trainings were conducted as part of DPE Metro Ea...

When installing AIF on a Dynamics AX 2009 server which is also a DC (Domain Controller), you gotta be careful, because, there are several issues regarding that. This scenario shouldn't be common in a production environment, but, it is indeed quite common in a demo Virtual PC machine, where you have "everything in a box"... So!, if you try to instal...

I'll deliver a session about "Developing with Dynamics Mobile 2008" in our Microsoft INNOVATION DAYS event. It will be delivered in Madrid (June 3rd) and Barcelona (June 5th). My session content will cover topics like: - Dynamics Mobile 2008 introduction - Dynamics Mobile Sales (Sample Application) - Developing with the Dynamics M...

So!, we already have Dynamics AX 2009 RTM version!! (It was released yesterday, May 22nd).  It is AVAILABLE NOW for download from Partner Source (you need to authenticate as a Dynamics partner): https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/support/selfsupport/productreleases/DynamicsAX2009release.htm    The download is a full ins...

Jason Hunt and Aaron Elder (from Ascentium, they are not from Microsoft) have published a very nice Whitepaper about "xRM" (Dynamics CRM as RAD dev platform for business Apps). Download it from: http://www.ascentium.com/blog/crm/Gallery/Ascentium%20-%20Microsoft%20Dynamics%20CRM%20as%20a%20Business%20Application%20Platform.pdf

Microsoft Dynamics CRM has released its Relationship Management Healthcare vertical accelerator.   This accelerator, built on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, showcases how Microsoft Dynamics CRM is relevant to customers in the healthcare industry and provides a baseline for partners/customers for further development.  These sales enablem...

Well, the real name of this whitepaper is "Developing ISV Applications using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0" but I thought it would be clearer with this other title. Many people don't not know what really an ISV is (Independent Software Vendor), and this whitepaper can also be great for any CRM developer/architect. :-) So, this whitepaper has (in a sin...

Just a tip I always have to do when setting up a Windows Server 2008 VPC (Virtual PC) which is also a DC (Active Directory Domain Controller). As those machines are just for demos or development environment, I do not want to have the Domain account policies which are quite strict, otherwise I'll have to change the password after several days (42 da...

I'm gonna talk about a new feature in Dynamics AX 2009 (Dynamics AX "5.0") which is the really powerful possibility we have now about calling/consuming external Web Services or even WCF Services from our X++ code. So, in Dynamics AX 4.0, we could execute external Web Services thanks to the AIF outbound web service adapters, but we couldn't really c...

If you want to develop CRM 4.0 Plugings, there's a tool called "Plugin Registration Tool 2.0" which can help you a lot when you want to register it into CRM Server. So, PluginRegistration tool is an enhanced version of the tool that is published within Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 SDK. You can download "PluginRegistration tool " from: http:...