by Gustaf Westerlund | Aug 3, 2007
Well, my 7 week vacation/parent leave is coming to an end, as is my low activity on this blog. I’ve been away from a proper internet connection which is why I havn’t been to active. It will be intersting to start working again now, that I have a 7 weeks old daughter at home.
Well, I really like to work with these products and all the interesting customers I have, so it’s not very saddening to go back to work, and I like to be active here as well.
In october I hope to be meeting some of you at Convergence 2007 in Copenhagen. It will be some very interesting days. If you havn’t registered already, please do, it will be very valuable. Have a look at Microsofts webpage: http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/convergence/copenhagen/default.aspx
I will be staying at Copenhagen Strand, it would be nice to meet some of my blog readers, so if you havn’t already booked an hotel, you could always give it a try. Hope to see you there in person!
Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant
Humandata AB
www.humandata.se
by Gustaf Westerlund | Jun 20, 2007
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
by Gustaf Westerlund | Jun 17, 2007
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
by Gustaf Westerlund | Jun 17, 2007
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
by Gustaf Westerlund | Jun 11, 2007
Dynamics (the product family of which CRM is part), now has it’s own corner in MSDN. Please have a look:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/default.aspx
Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant
Humandata AB
www.humandata.se
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