Want do check how a CRM installation is? Have a look at CRM Diag Tool at this webpage: http://blogs.msdn.com/benlec/archive/2007/06/06/new-crmdiagtoolturbo-3-0-5300-060607-uploaded-06-06-07.aspx
It helps you analyze a CRM installation. I havn’t tried it yet but when I have I will tell you some more. I wrote this post just in case you didn’t know it existed (like me).
Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant
Humandata AB
www.humandata.se
Integrating a map service into MS CRM with mesh-up technology is not very hard and can add very strong functionality to the users/customer. I havn’t worked in a project yet that wanted this functionality which is the reason why I havn’t blogged about it.
However, today I had a look at the CRM Team blog and found that Ayaz Ahmad, a CRM MVP has written a blog entry on how to make a simple CRM integration with Microsoft Mappoint.
Please have a look here if you are interested:
http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2007/06/14/microsoft-dynamics-crm-and-mappoint-integration-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words.aspx
I am not sure how well MapPoint works in Europe/Northern Europe but I don’t think integration with Google Earth (sorry MS, I know you hate them 🙂 or other similar services (www.hitta.se, www.eniro.se) is very much harder as long as the do have a wsdl-webservice that can easily be consumed, or can easily be configured using URL-parameters.
Anyway, start off with MapPoint, if it doesn’t go all the way for you, try working with some other Map Service supplier. There might also be some nice ActiveX-based map-service if a better map GUI is needed.
Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant
Humandata AB
www.humandata.se
Well, my daughter is sleeping so I have some time to blog a bit and read some other blogs.
The so-called May-VPC containing a CRM Demo environment will soon be out-dated and a couple of guys are working on a new environment. It will contain SharePoint 2007, VS 2005 and a lot more which is good news, since it therefore can be used for demos, education and simple development projects (larger development projects should be based on an empty CRM, with some customer specific data). I am looking forward to it! Read a bit more about it on Mennotk’s blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/mscrmfreak/archive/2007/06/12/new-microsoft-dynamics-crm-vpc-update.aspx
Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant
Humandata AB
www.humandata.se
17:03 on the 12:th of june, my wife gave birth to my first child, a beautiful little girl! She has been named Liv Nora Hogseth Westerlund, Nora being her primary name.
So, if you find this blog to be a bit slow the next few weeks, please have a look at the pictures at my private website www.westerlund.info, and you will understand why this is so.
Gustaf Westerlund
Father & CRM and SharePoint Consultant
Humandata AB
www.humandata.se
Patrick Tissegheim, a very competent SharePoint MVP at U2U has made a very good video presentation of how to customize search in SharePoint. He works with the tabbed searching and shows how to create your own search page, search result page and how to use SharePoint Designer GUI to create the XSLT used to show the result of a search. Very nice, if you havn’t seen it, you should.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb428855.aspx
Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant
Humandata AB
www.humandata.se
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