CRM 2011: The RC version is here!
As stated on various blog around the world, the Release Candidate version of Microsoft CRM 2011 is finally here!
I’ll updating soon, if not today, to see what has changed and what has been corrected 
Stay tuned!
Some links:
CRM 2011 Server RC
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c3f82c6f-c123-4e80-b9b2-ee422a16b91d
CRM 2011 Outlook Client
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=22dc423a-7194-491e-a169-6ace16bfdd36
Language Pack
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=db44c564-2338-407e-980a-c9c83ad37729
Email Router
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a995f6ad-0099-42fd-9b22-cf7b3d40a2bf
BIDS
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=64a09b75-8376-4b9d-aea3-8a83a1837c4d
SharePoint Connector
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=23c0f351-8694-4d92-9ddf-34a949aec6a7
How-to series: Create-and-deploy a “template” organization
Okay, now this post is going to show how to quickly export a complete CRM 4.0 organization, which includes:
- customizations
- reports
- workflows
- mail-merge templates
- email templates
- contract templates
- plugins (only those who have been deployed to the database)
- data
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: 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?) 
