girishr - Channel 9 Channel 9 Blog for girishr Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png girishr - Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr Channel 9 Blog for girishr http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr en Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:20:56 GMT Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:20:56 GMT Rev9 26 2 25 Building a CRM 2011 Virtual Machine Below are the links referred in the video. I've also posted the step-by-step process in my blog post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/girishr/archive/2011/01/26/building-a-crm-2011-virtual-machine-video-walkthrough.aspx


Windows Server 2008 R2
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/trial-software.aspx

SQL Server 2008 R2
http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/try-it.aspx

Office 2010 Trial
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/try/

SharePoint 2010 Foundation
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=49c79a8a-4612-4e7d-a0b4-3bb429b46595&displaylang=en

CRM 2011 RC Download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c3f82c6f-c123-4e80-b9b2-ee422a16b91d&displaylang=en

Visual Studio 2010
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/download

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Building-a-CRM-2011-Virtual-Machine Below are the links referred in the video. I've also posted the step-by-step process in my blog post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/girishr/archive/2011/01/26/building-a-crm-2011-virtual-machine-video-walkthrough.aspx Windows Server 2008 R2http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/trial-software.aspx SQL Server 2008 R2http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/try-it.aspx Office 2010 Trialhttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/try/ SharePoint 2010 Foundationhttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=49c79a8a-4612-4e7d-a0b4-3bb429b46595&displaylang=en CRM 2011 RC Downloadhttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c3f82c6f-c123-4e80-b9b2-ee422a16b91d&displaylang=en Visual Studio 2010http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/download 3610 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Building-a-CRM-2011-Virtual-Machine Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:16:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Building-a-CRM-2011-Virtual-Machine Girish Raja Girish Raja 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Building-a-CRM-2011-Virtual-Machine/RSS CRM Virtual Machines CRM 2011 CRM2011Beta Listing your App in the Dynamics Marketplace In this video Dan Bien, Principal Program Manager from the CRM team walks through the list of steps required to list your CRM 2011 App in the Dynamics Marketplace. Most of the steps are for first time partners. Existing Dynamics partners may be able to skip some of the steps that Dan mentions.

Since the video was captured at a high resolution, watching it in High Quality WMV is highly recommended.

We look forward to seeing your application in the Dynamics Marketplace.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Listing-your-app-in-the-Dynamics-Marketplace In this video Dan Bien, Principal Program Manager from the CRM team walks through the list of steps required to list your CRM 2011 App in the Dynamics Marketplace. Most of the steps are for first time partners. Existing Dynamics partners may be able to skip some of the steps that Dan mentions. Since the video was captured at a high resolution, watching it in High Quality WMV is highly recommended. We look forward to seeing your application in the Dynamics Marketplace. 305 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Listing-your-app-in-the-Dynamics-Marketplace Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:22:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Listing-your-app-in-the-Dynamics-Marketplace Girish Raja Girish Raja 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Listing-your-app-in-the-Dynamics-Marketplace/RSS CRM Dynamics Dynamics Marketplace Marketplace CRM 2011 CRM 2011 User Experience with Rich Dickinson Rich Dickinson is a Senior Program Manager in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, where he works on the user interface.  In this video he discusses how to personalize the user experience using Forms, either for an individual or more generally for roles, so that they have easy access to information most relevant to them.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-User-Experience-with-Rich-Dickinson Rich Dickinson is a Senior Program Manager in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, where he works on the user interface.  In this video he discusses how to personalize the user experience using Forms, either for an individual or more generally for roles, so that they have easy access to information most relevant to them. 649 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-User-Experience-with-Rich-Dickinson Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:34:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-User-Experience-with-Rich-Dickinson Girish Raja Girish Raja 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-User-Experience-with-Rich-Dickinson/RSS CRM UX CRM 2011 CRM2011Beta CRM 2011 Developer Overview with Andrew Bybee Andrew Bybee is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, where he leads a team that has developed many of the features that developers will find most useful.  In this video, he discusses ways in which developers can build solutions in the cloud, taking advantage of the Azure infrastructure, as well as coding on the server with an improved solution framework, and then making their solutions available on the new Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Developer-Overview-with-Andrew-Bybee Andrew Bybee is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, where he leads a team that has developed many of the features that developers will find most useful.  In this video, he discusses ways in which developers can build solutions in the cloud, taking advantage of the Azure infrastructure, as well as coding on the server with an improved solution framework, and then making their solutions available on the new Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace. 562 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Developer-Overview-with-Andrew-Bybee Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:32:45 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Developer-Overview-with-Andrew-Bybee Girish Raja Girish Raja 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Developer-Overview-with-Andrew-Bybee/RSS Azure CRM Dynamics Marketplace CRM 2011 CRM2011Beta CRM 2011 Online Reporting with Abhijit Gore Abhijit Gore is the Program Manager for Cloud Reporting within Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. He discusses the enhancements made in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online to deliver custom reporting for customers, and support ISVs who want to include their own reports as part of their cloud-based solutions.”

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Online-Reporting-with-Abhijit-Gore Abhijit Gore is the Program Manager for Cloud Reporting within Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. He discusses the enhancements made in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online to deliver custom reporting for customers, and support ISVs who want to include their own reports as part of their cloud-based solutions.” 651 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Online-Reporting-with-Abhijit-Gore Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:58:40 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Online-Reporting-with-Abhijit-Gore Girish Raja Girish Raja 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Online-Reporting-with-Abhijit-Gore/RSS Business Intelligence Cloud CRM Reporting SQL Server Reporting Services CRM 2011 CRM2011Beta CRM 2011 Data Visualizations with Siddhartha Rai Siddhartha Rai is the Program Manager for Business Intelligence within Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. He helped design and build one of the most exciting new features areas in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Inline data Visualization. This introduces a new generation of dashboards that can be built by line managers on the fly and used to drill through their data.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Data-Visualizations-with-Siddhartha-Rai Siddhartha Rai is the Program Manager for Business Intelligence within Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. He helped design and build one of the most exciting new features areas in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Inline data Visualization. This introduces a new generation of dashboards that can be built by line managers on the fly and used to drill through their data. 666 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Data-Visualizations-with-Siddhartha-Rai Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:58:18 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Data-Visualizations-with-Siddhartha-Rai Girish Raja Girish Raja 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Data-Visualizations-with-Siddhartha-Rai/RSS Business Intelligence CRM Reporting SQL Server Dashboard data visualization CRM 2011 CRM2011Beta CRM Global Search with Akvelon In this ch9 video I chat with Sergei Dreizin, CEO of Akvelon.

Akvelon has built a highly-configurable global search add-in for CRM and in this video Sergei shows a demo of their search product working with CRM 2011. Akvelon’s Global Search supports searching data across multiple entities, contents of attachment, displays related entities for many-to-many (N:N)relationships and searching by lookup fields. It also has the ability to search custom entities and fields which will come in very handy for xRM implementations. Behind the scenes, the add-in uses a combination of index based search, live queries and cached results.

For more details about Akvelon’s Global Search, check out the video and Akvelon’s website http://www.akvelon.com/products/Dynamics%20CRM%20Global%20Search/default.aspx.

Thanks,
-Girish Raja
http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr
http://twitter.com/girishr

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Global-Search-with-Akvelon In this ch9 video I chat with Sergei Dreizin, CEO of Akvelon. Akvelon has built a highly-configurable global search add-in for CRM and in this video Sergei shows a demo of their search product working with CRM 2011. Akvelon’s Global Search supports searching data across multiple entities, contents of attachment, displays related entities for many-to-many (N:N)relationships and searching by lookup fields. It also has the ability to search custom entities and fields which will come in very handy for xRM implementations. Behind the scenes, the add-in uses a combination of index based search, live queries and cached results. For more details about Akvelon’s Global Search, check out the video and Akvelon’s website http://www.akvelon.com/products/Dynamics%20CRM%20Global%20Search/default.aspx. Thanks,-Girish Rajahttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishrhttp://twitter.com/girishr 971 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Global-Search-with-Akvelon Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:15:36 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Global-Search-with-Akvelon Girish Raja Girish Raja 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Global-Search-with-Akvelon/RSS CRM Enterprise Search CRM 2011 CRM2011Beta CRM 2011 Outlook Client with Tripp Parker Tripp Parker is the Program Manager for the Microsoft Outlook client within Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. He discusses the significant re-design that went into the new Outlook client, including adoption of the Fluent user interface and re-building the CRM client as a native Outlook application, rather than being an Outlook add-in.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Outlook-Client-with-Tripp-Parker Tripp Parker is the Program Manager for the Microsoft Outlook client within Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. He discusses the significant re-design that went into the new Outlook client, including adoption of the Fluent user interface and re-building the CRM client as a native Outlook application, rather than being an Outlook add-in. 632 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Outlook-Client-with-Tripp-Parker Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:02:15 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Outlook-Client-with-Tripp-Parker Girish Raja Girish Raja 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Outlook-Client-with-Tripp-Parker/RSS CRM Outlook CRM 2011 CRM2011Beta CRM 2011 Workflows and Process Center with Steve Kaplan Steve Kaplan is the Program Manager for the new Process Center within Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. He discusses the work that has gone into creating the Process Center, including significant upgrades to how workflow is handled in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, as well as the new Dialogs feature that intelligently guides people through completing the appropriate steps when working on a  task.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Workflows-and-Process-Center-with-Steve-Kaplan Steve Kaplan is the Program Manager for the new Process Center within Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. He discusses the work that has gone into creating the Process Center, including significant upgrades to how workflow is handled in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, as well as the new Dialogs feature that intelligently guides people through completing the appropriate steps when working on a  task. 631 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Workflows-and-Process-Center-with-Steve-Kaplan Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:56:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Workflows-and-Process-Center-with-Steve-Kaplan Girish Raja Girish Raja 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Workflows-and-Process-Center-with-Steve-Kaplan/RSS .NET 4.0 .NET Framework 4.0 CRM Windows Workflow Foundation Workflow CRM 2011 CRM2011Beta CRM 2011 UX with Michael McCormack ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-UX-with-Michael-McCormack In this video, Michael McCormack,  the Program Manager lead for  the user experience within Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, talks about the design principles that were used to define the new UX, and shares examples of how Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 takes full advantage of the UI changes made in Outlook 2010 to deliver a contextually-relevant content to users. 600 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-UX-with-Michael-McCormack Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:23:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-UX-with-Michael-McCormack Girish Raja Girish Raja 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-UX-with-Michael-McCormack/RSS CRM CRM 2011 CRM2011Beta CRM 2011 Solutions Management with Humberto Guadarrama ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Solutions-Management-with-Humberto-Guadarrama In this video, Humberto, who is the Program Manager for the Solutions Management feature area in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, talks about how developers can now define, transport, deploy, maintain and consume full business applications, built entirely on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Solutions Framework, in just hours or days. 829 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Solutions-Management-with-Humberto-Guadarrama Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:16:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Solutions-Management-with-Humberto-Guadarrama Girish Raja Girish Raja 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-2011-Solutions-Management-with-Humberto-Guadarrama/RSS CRM CRM 2011 CRM2011Beta CRM Portal Accelerators & Advanced Developer Extensions - Part 3 Part1 & Part2 in WMV (High).

CRM SDK 4.0.12 that was released as part of the May 2010 Service Update includes some wonderful tools to simplify CRM development. One of the great benefits with this new SDK is the ability to switch your application from CRM on-premises to Online or partner-hosted with just one line of configuration file change and no re-compilation. The new SDK includes a code-gen utility that generates classes so that you can have strongly typed objects with relationship mapping in C#. As a result, developers get rich intellisense support within Visual Studio even for your custom entities. With this new SDK you can now use Language INtegrated Queries (LINQ) to write your queries against CRM. LINQ enables you to easily write complex CRM queries in an easier SQL-like way and as a result, the amount of CRM code a developer writes is largely reduced.

Head over to http://msdn.microsoft.com/dynamics/crm/ to download the new SDK and start coding right away!

Thanks,
-Girish Raja
http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr
http://twitter.com/girishr

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-3 Part 3 of 3. Check out Part1 & Part2 in WMV (High).CRM SDK 4.0.12 that was released as part of the May 2010 Service Update includes some wonderful tools to simplify CRM development. One of the great benefits with this new SDK is the ability to switch your application from CRM on-premises to Online or partner-hosted with just one line of configuration file change and no re-compilation. The new SDK includes a code-gen utility that generates classes so that you can have strongly typed objects with relationship mapping in C#. As a result, developers get rich intellisense support within Visual Studio even for your custom entities. With this new SDK you can now use Language INtegrated Queries (LINQ) to write your queries against CRM. LINQ enables you to easily write complex CRM queries in an easier SQL-like way and as a result, the amount of CRM code a developer writes is largely reduced. Head over to http://msdn.microsoft.com/dynamics/crm/ to download the new SDK and start coding right away!Thanks,-Girish Rajahttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishrhttp://twitter.com/girishr 961 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-3 Sat, 29 May 2010 18:01:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-3 Girish Raja Girish Raja 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-3/RSS .NET .NET Framework ASP.NET CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics CRM CRM Portal Accelerators & Advanced Developer Extensions - Part 2 Part 2 of 3. Check out Part1 & Part3 in WMV (High).

Let’s take a deeper look at the portal accelerator this time. The new portal accelerator release also includes the updated Event management, eService & partner relationship management (PRM) accelerators. Portal accelerator v2 has plenty of new features such as content management, in-place editing, Windows Live ID (WLID) integration, improved calendar and service scheduling engine, basic Web-to-Lead functionality, integration with CRM marketing list and much more. Yet, the new accelerator is backwards compatibility with the first version of portal accelerator. The external portals themselves are flexible enough that you can deploy them in your own web server or on Windows Azure.

In this video Reuben Krippner walks us through some of the benefits and usage scenarios of the new portal accelerator.

As always you can download the accelerators at http://crmaccelerators.codeplex.com/

Thanks,
-Girish Raja
http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr
http://twitter.com/girishr

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-2 Part 2 of 3. Check out Part1 & Part3 in WMV (High).Let’s take a deeper look at the portal accelerator this time. The new portal accelerator release also includes the updated Event management, eService & partner relationship management (PRM) accelerators. Portal accelerator v2 has plenty of new features such as content management, in-place editing, Windows Live ID (WLID) integration, improved calendar and service scheduling engine, basic Web-to-Lead functionality, integration with CRM marketing list and much more. Yet, the new accelerator is backwards compatibility with the first version of portal accelerator. The external portals themselves are flexible enough that you can deploy them in your own web server or on Windows Azure. In this video Reuben Krippner walks us through some of the benefits and usage scenarios of the new portal accelerator. As always you can download the accelerators at http://crmaccelerators.codeplex.com/Thanks,-Girish Rajahttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishrhttp://twitter.com/girishr 1329 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-2 Sat, 29 May 2010 17:58:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-2 Girish Raja Girish Raja 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-2/RSS .NET .NET Framework ASP.NET CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics CRM CRM Portal Accelerators & Advanced Developer Extensions - Part 1 Part2 & Part3 in WMV (High).

In this video I chat with Reuben Krippner, a Senior Product Manager in the CRM product planning team about the exciting CRM Accelerator release & SDK update coming out in May 2010. Accelerators are templates built by the CRM team to help you easily build CRM extensions thereby accelerating the value you derive out of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

We talk about the next generation Portal Accelerators that will be released in conjunction with May 2010 Service Update for CRM Online. It’s worth nothing that these new accelerators works with all CRM deployment models (On-premises, CRM Online or partner hosted CRM). The external portals themselves are flexible enough that you can deploy them in your own web server or on Windows Azure.

This release also includes a CRM SDK refresh which brings new rapid development tools that allow developers to take advantage of the latest .NET features such as LINQ, ADO.NET data services, etc.

Thanks,
-Girish Raja
http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr
http://twitter.com/girishr

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-1 Part 1 of 3. Check out Part2 & Part3 in WMV (High).In this video I chat with Reuben Krippner, a Senior Product Manager in the CRM product planning team about the exciting CRM Accelerator release & SDK update coming out in May 2010. Accelerators are templates built by the CRM team to help you easily build CRM extensions thereby accelerating the value you derive out of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. We talk about the next generation Portal Accelerators that will be released in conjunction with May 2010 Service Update for CRM Online. It’s worth nothing that these new accelerators works with all CRM deployment models (On-premises, CRM Online or partner hosted CRM). The external portals themselves are flexible enough that you can deploy them in your own web server or on Windows Azure. This release also includes a CRM SDK refresh which brings new rapid development tools that allow developers to take advantage of the latest .NET features such as LINQ, ADO.NET data services, etc. Thanks,-Girish Rajahttp://blogs.msdn.com/girishrhttp://twitter.com/girishr 560 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-1 Fri, 07 May 2010 00:08:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-1 Girish Raja Girish Raja 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Portal-Accelerators--Advanced-Developer-Extensions-Part-1/RSS .NET .NET Framework ASP.NET CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics CRM Phone Company CRM & Azure Demo Here is the full video of the “Phone Company” demo that shows the integration of Dynamics CRM “5”, AppFabric Service Bus and Windows Azure. This demo was shown as part of the PDC09 session on Developing xRM Solutions Using Windows Azure.

Enjoy!

Girish Raja

Thanks,
Girish Raja | Dynamics Technical Evangelist
http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr
]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Phone-Company-CRM--Azure-Demo Here is the full video of the “Phone Company” demo that shows the integration of Dynamics CRM “5”, AppFabric Service Bus and Windows Azure. This demo was shown as part of the PDC09 session on&nbsp;Developing xRM Solutions Using Windows&nbsp;Azure.Enjoy!Girish Raja Thanks, Girish Raja | Dynamics Technical Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr 878 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Phone-Company-CRM--Azure-Demo Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:42:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Phone-Company-CRM--Azure-Demo Girish Raja Girish Raja 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Phone-Company-CRM--Azure-Demo/RSS CRM Accelerators: Analytics Reuben decided to take control of things on this channel9 video as we discuss about the Analytics accelerator. <Alert> we recorded this video really early in the development cycle for this accelerator. There are far more cool capabilities and reports in the final version of this accelerator than what we see in this video. </Alert>

The analytics accelerator provides a set of Performance Dashboards and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for analyzing the data residing within the CRM platform. It utilizes SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) for creating OLAP cubes. SSAS is also used here for creating predictive analysis with some fully functional samples. The analytics accelerator will work with SQL Server 2005 with some components enhanced to take advantage of SQL Server 2008.

Check out more Channel9 videos on CRM Accelerators here and please visit http://www.codeplex.com/crmaccelerators to download the accelerators.

Happy coding!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Analytics Reuben decided to take control of things on this channel9 video as we discuss about the Analytics accelerator. &lt;Alert&gt; we recorded this video really early in the development cycle for this accelerator.&nbsp;There are far more cool capabilities and reports in the final version of this accelerator than what we see in this video. &lt;/Alert&gt; The analytics accelerator provides a set of Performance Dashboards and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for analyzing the data residing within the CRM platform. It utilizes SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) for creating OLAP cubes. SSAS is also used here for creating predictive analysis with some fully functional samples. The analytics accelerator will work with SQL Server 2005 with some components enhanced to take advantage of SQL Server 2008. Check out more Channel9 videos on&nbsp;CRM Accelerators here and please visit&nbsp;http://www.codeplex.com/crmaccelerators to download the accelerators. Happy coding! 684 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Analytics Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:10:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Analytics Girish Raja Girish Raja 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Analytics/RSS CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics CRM Dynamics CRM Platform SQL Server SQL Server 2008 SQL Server Analysis Services SQL Server Reporting Services CRM Accelerators: eService (ASP.NET Portal) eService accelerator allows developers to easily create self-service customer portals built on top of ASP.NET. This accelerator utilizes an ASP.NET starter kit and several components of the ASP.NET framework including the membership provider for authentication. The out of the box functionality of eService includes the ability for customers to create cases, schedule and manage service appointments, search through KB articles, etc all from within the website.

Don’t be fooled by the name “eService”, as underneath the covers, there is an ASP.NET control suite for CRM. Each of the ASP.NET form you saw in this video is a customizable ASP.NET user control and all of its properties and settings are derived from the CRM metadata. You can hook up these controls to any entity within the CRM system and configure them fairly easily.

I’m sure this accelerator will jump start CRM development for a lot of ASP.NET developers and vice versa.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-eService-ASPNET-Portal eService accelerator allows developers to easily create self-service customer portals built on top of ASP.NET. This accelerator utilizes an ASP.NET starter kit and several components of the ASP.NET framework including the membership provider for authentication. The out of the box functionality of eService includes the ability for customers to create cases, schedule and manage service appointments, search through KB articles, etc all from within the website. Don’t be fooled by the name “eService”, as underneath the covers, there is an ASP.NET control suite for CRM. Each of the ASP.NET form you saw in this video is a customizable ASP.NET user control and all of its properties and settings are derived from the CRM metadata. You can hook up these controls to any entity within the CRM system and configure them fairly easily. I’m sure this accelerator will jump start CRM development for a lot of ASP.NET developers and vice versa. 741 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-eService-ASPNET-Portal Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:58:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-eService-ASPNET-Portal Girish Raja Girish Raja 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-eService-ASPNET-Portal/RSS ASP.NET CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics CRM Dynamics CRM Platform CRM Accelerators: Event Management The event management accelerator allows you to plan and manage events and logistics through Microsoft Dynamics CRM. This front end portal of this accelerator is actually built using an ASP.NET starter kit. Behind the scenes, CRM plug-ins and workflows drives the business logic like registration, waitlists, notifications etc.

The data model and business logic that Reuben has designed for this is very comprehensive and is a result of working with several event organizers. If you’re looking at building an event management solution, this accelerator will reduce a lot of brainstorming & revisions that you have to do otherwise.

Given the design of this, I’m beginning to wonder if this accelerator could very well become a Content Management System (CMS) for event planning. What do you think?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Event-Management The event management accelerator allows you to plan and manage events and logistics through Microsoft Dynamics CRM. This front end portal of this accelerator is actually built using an ASP.NET starter kit. Behind the scenes, CRM plug-ins and workflows drives the business logic like registration, waitlists, notifications etc. The data model and business logic that Reuben has designed for this is very comprehensive and is a result of working with several event organizers. If you’re looking at building an event management solution, this accelerator will reduce a lot of brainstorming &amp; revisions that you have to do otherwise. Given the design of this, I’m beginning to wonder if this accelerator could very well become a Content Management System (CMS) for event planning. What do you think? 601 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Event-Management Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:55:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Event-Management Girish Raja Girish Raja 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Event-Management/RSS ASP.NET CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics CRM Dynamics CRM Platform CRM Accelerators: Notifications (RSS) CRM notifications accelerator allows you to expose CRM business data by creating Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds.

Users can subscribe to any saved views within CRM as a feed. This allows you to have a channel where you pull information instead of being pushed to you from the server. These RSS feeds accessible via a variety of RSS readers including Outlook, Mobile phone, 3rd Party Readers, etc. It is also worth noting that this capability can be used to easily create Vista Gadget for CRM by using the generic RSS gadget that Windows Vista ships with.

This is just a tip of iceberg on how RSS can be used with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Since the accelerator ships with the source code as well, developers can further extend this or create new and interesting applications based on RSS & CRM.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Notifications-RSS CRM notifications accelerator&nbsp;allows you to expose CRM business data by creating Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. Users can subscribe to any saved views within CRM as a feed. This allows you to have a channel where you pull information instead of being pushed to you from the server. These RSS feeds accessible via a variety of RSS readers including Outlook, Mobile phone, 3rd Party Readers, etc. It is also worth noting that this capability can be used to easily create Vista Gadget for CRM by using the generic RSS gadget that Windows Vista ships with. This is just a tip of iceberg on how RSS can be used with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Since the accelerator ships with the source code as well, developers can further extend this or create new and interesting applications based on RSS &amp; CRM. 368 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Notifications-RSS Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:32:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Notifications-RSS Girish Raja Girish Raja 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Notifications-RSS/RSS CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics Dynamics CRM Dynamics CRM Platform RSS CRM Accelerators: Enterprise Search In this video, we take a look at the Enterprise Search Accelerator for CRM and see how SharePoint and CRM can complement each other in creating business solutions.

The enterprise search accelerator allows Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) customers to view and search for Microsoft Dynamics CRM data directly from their SharePoint portals.

Additionally, the technology, Business Data Catalog (BDC), and techniques used with this accelerator can be employed to surface data from other line of business applications to further enrich the SharePoint portal.

BDC makes it easy for people to connect to, find, and act on information stored in structured line-of-business systems (such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM) by using a declarative framework to securely integrate them into search results. With BDC you can configure actionable audience-specific portals, dashboards and mash-up interfaces for this data without writing any code.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Enterprise-Search In this video, we take a look at the Enterprise Search Accelerator for CRM and see how SharePoint and CRM can complement each other in creating business solutions. The enterprise search accelerator allows Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) customers to view and search for Microsoft Dynamics CRM data directly from their SharePoint portals. Additionally, the technology, Business Data Catalog (BDC), and techniques used with this accelerator can be employed to surface data from other line of business applications to further enrich the SharePoint portal. BDC makes it easy for people to connect to, find, and act on information stored in structured line-of-business systems (such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM) by using a declarative framework to securely integrate them into search results. With BDC you can configure actionable audience-specific portals, dashboards and mash-up interfaces for this data without writing any code. 1025 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Enterprise-Search Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:33:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Enterprise-Search Girish Raja Girish Raja 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-Enterprise-Search/RSS Accelerators BDC CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics MOSS Search CRM Accelerators: An Introduction with Reuben Krippner Few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to interview Reuben Krippner from the CRM team. Reuben has been working very hard for the last several months to release CRM Accelerators. In this short video, Reuben gives us an overview of the Accelerators program and we chat about how Accelerators will evolve in the future.

Update: Microsoft Partners can download the accelerators bits and related information at the below links: 

http://www.codeplex.com/crmaccelerators
https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/newsevents/news/MD_CRM_Accelerators

Stay tuned for more videos on Accelerators as Reuben and I drill into the technical details of each accelerator.

Thanks,
-Girish Raja.
http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-An-Introduction-with-Reuben-Krippner Few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to interview&nbsp;Reuben Krippner from the CRM team. Reuben has been working very hard for the last several months to release CRM Accelerators. In this short video, Reuben gives us an overview of the Accelerators program and we chat about how Accelerators will evolve in the future. Update: Microsoft Partners can download the accelerators bits and related information at the below links:&nbsp; http://www.codeplex.com/crmaccelerators https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/newsevents/news/MD_CRM_Accelerators Stay tuned for more videos on Accelerators as Reuben and I drill into the technical details of each accelerator. Thanks, -Girish Raja. http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr 724 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-An-Introduction-with-Reuben-Krippner Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:22:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-An-Introduction-with-Reuben-Krippner Girish Raja Girish Raja 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/CRM-Accelerators-An-Introduction-with-Reuben-Krippner/RSS Accelerators CRM CRM Accelerators Dynamics Creating a Silverlight control for CRM
There are a variety of ways you can connect a Silverlight client to CRM. In this screencast, we're using a proxy approach by having a WCF service sitting in between Silverlight control and CRM web services.

You can download the code for this screencast here. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr/ for more code samples and related screencasts. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Creating-a-Silverlight-control-for-CRM In this screencast, we'll see how to build a Silverlight 2 control that connects and displays data from Dynamics CRM. There are a variety of ways you can connect a Silverlight client to CRM. In this screencast, we're using a proxy approach by having a WCF service sitting in between Silverlight control and CRM web services. You can download the code for this screencast&nbsp;here. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr/&nbsp;for more code samples and related screencasts. 561 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Creating-a-Silverlight-control-for-CRM Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:24:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Creating-a-Silverlight-control-for-CRM Girish Raja Girish Raja 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Creating-a-Silverlight-control-for-CRM/RSS Creating a CRM WPF Offline Application
Check out http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/benriga/The-Dynamics-Duo-talk-about-CRM-and-WPF/ for some cool WPF work we've created as a proof of concept.

You can download the code for this screencast here. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr/ for more code samples and related screencasts. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Creating-a-CRM-WPF-Offline-Application In this screencast, we'll see how to create a simple Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that pulls data from Dynamics CRM. We'll then see how can we modify this application to work in offline mode. Check out&nbsp;http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/benriga/The-Dynamics-Duo-talk-about-CRM-and-WPF/&nbsp;for some cool WPF work we've created as a proof of concept. You can download the code for this screencast here. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr/&nbsp;for more code samples and related screencasts. 649 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Creating-a-CRM-WPF-Offline-Application Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:47:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Creating-a-CRM-WPF-Offline-Application Girish Raja Girish Raja 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Creating-a-CRM-WPF-Offline-Application/RSS Creating a custom SharePoint webpart for CRM 4.0 VPC.

Check out http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/benriga/The-Dynamics-Duo-talk-about-Dynamics-CRM-and-SharePoint/ to take a look at a cool dashboard you can build with custom connected webparts.

You can download the code for this screencast here. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr/ for more code samples and related screencasts. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Creating-a-custom-SharePoint-webpart-for-CRM In this screencast, we write a simple SharePoint webpart that pulls data from the CRM 4.0 VPC. Check out http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/benriga/The-Dynamics-Duo-talk-about-Dynamics-CRM-and-SharePoint/&nbsp;to take a look at a cool dashboard you can build with custom connected webparts. You can download the code for this screencast here. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr/&nbsp;for more code samples and related screencasts. 843 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Creating-a-custom-SharePoint-webpart-for-CRM Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:23:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Creating-a-custom-SharePoint-webpart-for-CRM Girish Raja Girish Raja 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Creating-a-custom-SharePoint-webpart-for-CRM/RSS Customizing CRM's Entity Model and User Experience
Check out http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/benriga/The-Dynamics-Duo-talk-about-Dynamics-CRM-Customization/ for the conversation I had with Ben Riga on the topic of customizing the CRM Platform.

You can download the code for this screencast here. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr/ for more code samples and related screencasts. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Customizing-CRMs-Entity-Model-and-User-Experience Custom navigation along with custom entities allows you to start creating Line of Business (LOB) applications in a variety of vertical industries. This&nbsp;screencast shows how you can import the entity and sitemap customizations into the CRM platform to quickly convert a vanilla CRM instance to a customized business application. Check out&nbsp;http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/benriga/The-Dynamics-Duo-talk-about-Dynamics-CRM-Customization/&nbsp;for the conversation I had with Ben Riga on the topic of customizing the CRM Platform. You can download the code for this screencast here. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr/&nbsp;for more code samples and related screencasts. 282 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Customizing-CRMs-Entity-Model-and-User-Experience Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:14:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Customizing-CRMs-Entity-Model-and-User-Experience Girish Raja Girish Raja 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/girishr/Customizing-CRMs-Entity-Model-and-User-Experience/RSS