Dynamics CRM 4.0 Titan - Screencasts

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In the past I've worked with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0. Some time ago Microsoft anounced they were going to release version 4.0 Titan of their CRM software. After this I looked around on the internet for information about CRM 4.0.

In the last few weeks I found a lot of screencasts by Philip Richardson on CRM 4.0.

• Add Multiple Users (October 1, 2007)
• Web Import (October 3, 2007)
• Duplication Detection (October 4, 2007)
• Import/Export Customizations (October 5, 2007)
• Workflow, 3 screencasts (October 12, 2007)
• Multi-Lingual (October 15, 2007)
• Mail Merge (October 18, 2007)
• Outlook Client (October 19, 2007)

Besides this there's a new blog launched Microsoft CRM 4.0.

After watching the screencasts I have some comments to make.

The import and export for customizations now also supports the import and export of settings.

Mail merge seems to work when using the Outlook client, but does it also work from within the webclient?

Workflow now makes use of Workflow Foundation, very nice.

Still waiting for some more information about CRM 4.0. I'll post more about CRM 4.0 in the future.

Dynamics CRM 3.0 - August 2007 Virtual PC Image

Tweet We've been waiting for some time to get the new Dynamics CRM 3.0 Virtual PC Image. We can download it now on: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Virtual PC Demonstration - August 2007 Release What's in this Release?

• Windows 2003 R2 SP2
• SQL Server 2005
• Internet Explorer 7
• Office Professional Plus 2007
• Office Sharepoint Server 2007
• Dynamics CRM 3.0 (V3C, Rollup 2)
• Dynamics CRM Laptop and Desktop client
• Dynamics CRM SDK
• Dynamics Web Parts
• Visual Studio 2005
• Windows Desktop Search 3.01
• POP3 Services (no Exchange)

Hmm reading this. What about Visual Studio 2005? What's the use of it, development for Dynamics CRM 3.0 needs to be in .NET 1.1. I know it is possible to use Visual Studio 2005 to target to .NET 1.1 but it isn't that easy. I'm going to download the image as soon as possible and maybe add some comments to this post as part of it.