June 2005 Issue  
   
 
  Help the Microsoft CRM Dev. Team by Running the Database Profile Wizard  
How can you help improve future releases of Microsoft CRM? Simply invest only 10 minutes of your time to download and run the Microsoft CRM Database Profile Wizard. The Wizard collects descriptive data from Microsoft CRM 1.0 and 1.2 databases and sends the collected data to Microsoft. When you run this wizard, you can sign up to receive additional information about upgrading your current Microsoft CRM system when the next version of Microsoft CRM is released.

>> Learn more, see screenshots, and download the CRM Database Profile Wizard...
 



  Big Microsoft CRM Announcements at the Upcoming Partner Conference?  
Microsoft CRM General Manager Brad Wilson will present the "Microsoft CRM Strategy and Vision" on July 7th at the annual Microsoft Partner conference in Minneapolis. Will we get a hard ship date? Will they announce the name of the next release? We're hoping to get answers to these questions and more. Of course, we'll be onsite and we'll do our best to send out any breaking news immediately. We will also update our Microsoft CRM blog throughout the conference so keep checking our website or subscribe to our data feed.
 



  Try Tabbed Browsing with Microsoft CRM  
Do you wish you could work with fewer browser windows in Microsoft CRM? Microsoft released an updated version of the MSN Search Toolbar and it includes the ability to use tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer. We installed the MSN Search Toolbar to try tabbed browsing with Microsoft CRM 1.2 to see what the experience would be like.

>> See how tabbed browsing works with Microsoft CRM...
 



  New XML File Formats for Office and What it Means for Microsoft CRM  
Microsoft announced they will make XML the new file format for the next version of Microsoft Office (code-named "Office 12"). Since Microsoft CRM is a 100% .NET application with heavy use of XML, we wondered how this change would cross-over to Microsoft CRM.

>> Read our analysis on how the new file formats might impact Microsoft CRM...
 



  Check Out Our Recent Microsoft CRM Blog Posts  

We update our Microsoft CRM blog several times a week with information about Microsoft CRM, related Microsoft technologies like Office, and competing CRM programs. You can subscribe to our blog's data feed, and receive immediate notifications when we post a new entry.

>> Read our CRM Blog and subscribe to our XML data feed...
 



 
 
 
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