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On Friday, September 14, we have released our latest version of the CRM to Exchange Synchronization application. The latest release, now also available for a 30-day trial, includes additional new features as well as easier configuration, multi-culture support logging capabilities and more. 

Many times we are required to have a process or task that will automatically execute at a predefined interval (such as every first of the month), but Microsoft Dynamics CRM does not have a built-in engine to have such a process. An example of this would be updating the Month-To-Date totals of a particular entity.

The example below will show how to use a Workflow Process with the combination of a Plugin to execute on a monthly basis.

When implementing Forms Based Authentication (FBA), SharePoint retrieves the tp_title field from the UserInfo table in the WSS_Content* database to display the name of logged in user.
Depending on the method of adding the users to the SharePoint site, this login might appear with the membership provider details as part of the display name.

The System.Management.Automation assembly allows the exeuction of Powershell commands against Exchange server.
Although, it would seem that the same code would be able to run for both of the versions of Exchange Server, two different codebases are required. The reason for this is that Exchange 2007 (SP1) supports only local Powershell, and Exchange 2010 uses remote Powershell.

When using SQL Server logins to connect to a database that has just been restored, most likely the following error will appear: Login failed for User 'username'

Meteorologists possess the uncanny ability to be almost right almost all of the time. Now that doesn't always help when you're planning the company picnic, but reports of a 70% chance of precipitation does, at the very least, encourage the party planner to rent a tent. What weather men and women are unable to do, however, is predict weather trends for the years ahead. (Global warming controversy notwithstanding. . .)