Mr Dave writes some about Plug-In development

by | Oct 15, 2007

Mr Dave has written an interesting blog in plug-in development, which is the replacement for the callout-techniques used in CRM 3. There are a lot of architectural differences between callous and plug-ins. If you are planning to use plugs, dig in:

http://crm.davidyack.com/journal/2007/10/14/using-prepost-images-in-plug-ins.html

I hope to be writing some postings of my own concerning CRM 4.0 soon, but I still havn’t got my hands on a version 🙁

Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant

Humandata AB
www.humandata.se

Stunnware on CRM 4 development

by | Oct 15, 2007

Michael Höhne who runs the site Stunnware has written an interesting blog posting on how development differes between CRM 3 and CRM 4. It is very interesting and very usefull. If you plan to develop using CRM 4, I highly recommend that you read it.

http://www.stunnware.com/crm2/topic.aspx?id=CRM4MultiTenancy

Next week is Convergence EMEA in Copenhagen. If you are planning to go there and would like to meet, please drop me a line and we can arrange it.

Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant

Humandata AB
www.humandata.se

I’m moving on!

by | Oct 3, 2007

November the 9:th will be my last day at Humandata here in Sweden. My new employment will be at WM-Data/Logica CMG where I will be working as a consultant with special focus on Microsoft Dynamics CRM development.

This means that I will focus even more on MS CRM and less on SharePoint. Don’t get me wrong, I really like SharePoint and will probably use it for integration purposes with Microsoft CRM many times. This new employment will give me the opportunity to work with some of the largest MS CRM implementations and I will also be assisting in building a team of (hopefully) excellent MS CRM developers and consultants. If you feel that is you, please let me know, and we’ll meet and discuss it. It will also be very interesting and instructive to work with the very experienced CRM professionals at WM-Data.

I will still be activly blogging to get you the latest and most useful tips, but I will focus more on Microsoft CRM, even though an occational SharePoint posting might occur.

I would also like to say that I feel very sad to leave the company Humandata which is a great place to work and it has been a privilage to work with some of the most competent people in the business. If you are a skilled SharePoint consultant (or want to be), please contact Göran Husman (SharePoint MVP and owner of Humandata), I promise you wont regret it!

Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant

Humandata AB
www.humandata.se

First Titan/CRM 4 screenshots!

by | Oct 2, 2007

If you, like me, havn’t been able to test or have a look at the new Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 (code named Titan), you can now. I havn’t seen any VPC out yet public but will let you know as soon as I know.

In the meantime, have a look at Stunnwares/Michael Höhnes site where he writes about the many new features of CRM 4. It’s been a long wait, but it has been worth it! CRM 4 seems to be great!

http://www.stunnware.com/crm2/topic.aspx?id=TitanBeta3

Gustaf

MS CRM 3 and Exchange 2007

by | Oct 1, 2007

As many of you probably have customers running Exchange 2007 or are considering running Exchange 2007, careful consideration has to be taken to the fact that the current CRM Email router does not support Exchange 2007 due to the fact that it is a 64 bit program, and the router is not. This is going to be fixed in CRM 4. For more information have a look at the CRM Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2007/09/27/crm-3-0-and-exchange-2007-compatibility.aspx

Gustaf