According to my Twitter sources, Microsoft announced today, at Convergence 2010, that “CRM 5 will be released by the end of the year with CRM Online first then on-premise.” Now that’s the first time I’ve heard the release date officially pinned down that precisely. I’ve been hearing Q4 and even early Q4 2010 for a while now. [...]
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I put this page together to keep track of useful links related to Microsoft Dynamics CRM. I did it as much for my own use as anything but if anyone else finds it useful, all the better. Workflow Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Workflow Authoring Best Practices Gonzalo Ruiz, Business IT Professionals, Inc., Microsoft, January 15, 2010, [...]
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Let’s say you and I are starting a business and we’re making plans to launch a great new piece of software that will change the world. Should we be thinking cloud platform? Will our software product/service be obsolete by the time we finish it if we don’t build it on Google or Microsoft or Amazon’s [...]
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This is a brief introduction on the multitenant architecture and features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. There is some confusion and mystery around hosting multi-tenant instances of MSCRM 4.0. The purpose of this post is to provide a summary of the functionality and issues. I’ll follow up by drilling down into the important issues around configuration.
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