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Yes you can! It’s totally true! Besides doing #sqlsat51 in Nashville this weekend there are not one but TWO webcasts that you can get some FREE training from next week from the comfort of your climate controlled offices!

The first is on Tuesday and covers EF 4.0

We will be giving away a $50.00 Amazon gift certificate!

Entity Framework 4.0 !

With the recent release of Visual Studio 4.0, Microsoft has released their next iteration of the Entity Framework. For those of you whom have held off learning the new platform, now is the time to jump in. This version of the EF has tons of new features that developers have been clamoring for since the 1.0 release. We’ll cover things like: development approaches (code-first, model-first, database first), T4 code generation, persistence ignorance, lazy loading, and much more! Join us to see what you have been missing out on!

Date

Tuesday
August 24, 2010

Time

11:00am EST
Register Today!

If you know someone who may be interested
in attending this webinar, please…………

The second one is on Thursday for the XRMVirtual Users Group … I will be covering the following

SSRS in CRM with Arie Jones

Join Arie Jones, Principal Technology Manager of Perptech, as he shares with us what’s new in SSRS 2008 R2. This session will cover reporting basics and will have some deeper technical content as well. System customizers, power user, DBAs, developers, technical users, numbers people (pretty much anyone USING or MAKING CRM) will learn a great deal in this session.

Meeting link

Schedule:

• SSRS in CRM
  8/26/2010 9:00:00 AM (PST) – 8/26/2010 10:00:00 AM (PST)

Upcoming times:

• 8/26/2010 9:00:00 AM (PST)

So get off your duff and learn something new by joining us!

Cheers,
AJ

Okay, so I will be presenting another webcast on SQL Server 2008 R2 Features….this time specifically with a slant towards CRM for the XRMVirtualUserGroup on Aug 26th,2010.

SSRS in CRM with Arie Jones

Join Arie Jones, Principal Technology Manager of Perptech, as he shares with us what’s new in SSRS 2008 R2. This session will cover reporting basics and will have some deeper technical content as well. System customizers, power user, DBAs, developers, technical users, numbers people (pretty much anyone USING or MAKING CRM) will learn a great deal in this session.

**** Please note the timezone below !!!

**** PST = Pacific Standard Time   PST <> Pretty Standard Time

Schedule:

• SSRS in CRM
  8/26/2010 9:00:00 AM (PST) – 8/26/2010 10:00:00 AM (PST)

You can Register here!

 http://www.xrmvirtual.com/events/ssrs_crm

For those of you that don’t know the XRMVirtualUserGroup(http://www.xrmvirtual.com/ ) covers all things related to XRM(CRM) and is coordinated by the (in)famous Julie Yack(MVP) (http://julieyack.com/)  from an undisclosed location deep in the Colorado mountainside. The virtual group is fairly large I believe with over 1000 members internationally…….so you may be asking yourself why you haven’t joined yet??…….yes, it is because you are a noob so stop wasting time and just do it!

Cheers,
AJ

During a recent Exchange server move I ran into some issues with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Email Router throwing up errors

The error is pretty annoying because of the fact that it doesn’t give you a clear indication of what the problem is. So after checking numerous setting on the router and doing a lot of searching it turns out that this can be attributed to the virtual directory security settings on the Exchange box as outlined in the following Microsoft kb article..

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954047

The virtual directories on the Exchange and ExAdmin directories need to be set on Windows Authentication.

I hope that this will save you some time if you have the same problem.

Cheers,
AJ

From time to time I tell people at my event sessions to send me a quick email or note about a topic that they would like for me to blog a solution about. I find this blog to be a great tool in reaching out to the masses and hopefully saves people some time and effort.

So since I don’t have any events for the next month and a half, I am soliciting your ideas for what blog postings you would like to see. These can range in any of the following topic areas

1. SQL Server
2. SQL Server Integration Services(SSIS)
3. SQL Server Reporting Services(SSRS)
4. SQL Server Analysis Services(SSAS)
5. ASP.NET
6. Dynamics CRM

So add your ideas to the comments area and I will do my best over the next few weeks to try and get as many in as humanly possible.

Cheers,
AJ

I have recently had the opportunity of flexing my Dynamics CRM development muscles a little more in the office here. I have been working with Microsoft Dynamics’s various ‘flavors’ since about 2004 and have watched the product line evolve into a first class product. So I am constantly looking for ways in which to make my development life easier especially in terms of the Dynamics CRM platform.

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Developer Toolkit allows you to more easily develop and customize CRM 4.0 installations. This is a must have tool in your developers arsenal if you are seriously undertaking CRM customization. The kit itself was sponsored by the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Engineering for Enterprise group in order to assist developers in doing the following tasks:

• View All CRM Entities
• Create and Update CRM Entities
• Create a Wrapper Class
• Generate Plug-in Code
• Integrate the Build and Deploy Process
• Deploy Across Multiple Servers

Check it out here.

CRM Toolkit Download

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Cheers,
AJ