Robert MacLean

It seems that my stupid tips is catching on, however I did not expect this level of duh from the official MSCRM blog itself.

If you get the MSCRM 4.0 SDK there is a little html file called sdkreadme.htm, which you would assume (incorrectly) is about the SDK itself and not the development side. Well in there is a number of issues that can occur.

I recently was looking for some concrete information on the various status meanings in MSCRM 4.0 for the duplicate rules publishing. Checking the help didn't help, so I used the feedback option on it to say so. This morning I got a response answering the exact question.

If you downloaded MSCRM and you do the server install you are likely presented with a lovely missing requirements screen like the one below, which you then need to download the requirements and install.

This is a great proof of how NOT to protect software. When you try to uninstall it can ask for a password configured by the network admin, but what it the server admin, servers or entire infrastructure is gone basically giving you no chance of getting the password back. Well facing that scenario myself, I hacked around and found a work around.

Vista has a great feature called complete backup with makes a VHD of your hard drive (more details see channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=229767), or so I'm told. Yesterday was the first chance I got to sit down and use it, and I'm not over the moon by it.

In MSCRM 4.0 you can specify how the user works with their incoming and outgoing email. Incoming is none, the router, outlook client or the forward mail box while outgoing is the router, outlook client or none. There is two ways to config this, one get the user to set it in their settings (yeah right) or go through the users in the admin side, manually, one by one (boring and a waste of time).