CRM 2011: Global launch event
“Thursday, January 20th, 2011 at 9am PST” is the date you can’t miss!
Quote from the web page http://crm.dynamics.com/2011launch/:
“Attend this FREE global virtual launch event and watch Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer introduce Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. Learn how it is designed to help you boost sales, improve marketing, enrich customer service interactions, and accelerate line of business application development through xRM.
Hear keynote presentations by Kirill Tatarinov (Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Business Solutions), Michael Park (Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Business Solutions), and Brad Wilson (General Manager, Microsoft Dynamics CRM).”
“In addition, you’ll be able to:
- Get a sneak peek view through engaging demos.
- Hear success stories from real customers who put Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 to work for them.
- Choose from 15 different tracks especially designed to suit your business, industry or IT needs.
- Chat live with Microsoft experts and other customers in real time during the event.”
Ready? Register here.
CRM 2011 : Ajouter des packs de langue
Bien que Microsoft CRM 2011 soit multi-langues, il est nécessaire d’installer un pack de langue pour que celle-ci soit disponible lors de l’instanciation d’une nouvelle organisation (OU).
CRM 2011: New update (KB2439176) for beta available!
New update for Microsoft CRM 2011 beta is available through Windows Update since the 26th of October.
I haven’t found any information on this update so far, so I’m going to test it against my deployment to find any bug or error.
CRM 2011: Installer le connecteur SharePoint 2010 pour Microsoft CRM 2011
Une nouvelle fonctionnalité de Microsoft CRM 2011 est la possibilité d’utiliser SharePoint 2011 pour l’intégration des documents CRM.
Cette fonctionnalité était longuement attendue et pouvait être implémentée dans la version précédente de Microsoft CRM (4.0) en utilisant du code (voir ici et là).
CRM 2011: New update (KB2409294) for beta available!
New update for Microsoft CRM 2011 beta is available through Windows Update
CRM 2011: Installation issues and way to resolve it
Some issues that can arise during the ‘System Checks’ while installing Microsoft CRM 2011…
Issues
- The SPN for the ASP.NET App Pool account has to be verified
- The SPN for the CRM Deployment Web Service App Pool account has to be verified
- The IIS NTAuthenticationProviders must be ‘Negotiate,NTLM’
For information, this are the messages I get on a Windows Server 2008 Std VM.
Problem with Microsoft SQL Server Full-Text Search
If, by any means, you have upgraded your Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to 2008, you’ve probably seen this: you want to install a brand new CRM 4 on your server and, just before the end of the wizard, the verification process hangs on the Microsoft SQL Server node with the following message:
My workflows do not run anymore…or why you don’t want to rename an OU in a production environment!
Well, this is kind of a weird problem that got a hold on me for almost a week: my client wanted to rename the organization on the production environment, after 2 months of work (which is, IMO, a wrong thing to do).
Add other deployment administrators
To avoid the annoying message “Unable to access the MSCRM_CONFIG database. SQL Server does not exist or access denied.”, do not forget to add the new deployment administrator user to the SQLAccessGroup in your Active Directory!
Maybe someone already thought about writing a small program to do all this stuff with one click (or maybe I should create it?) 
