Archive for May, 2009

Changing the MaxLength (the hard way)

Posted on May 13th, 2009.

Ran into an interesting issue reported by a customer.  In their CRM implementation, they were not able to adjust (increase) the size of their  lead.description attribute.  It’s an ntext field so it will store millions of characters, but the CRM UI was limiting them to 2,000 (the default size).
The maximum size wasn’t even displayed on [...]

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Thoughts about giving a presentation

Posted on May 13th, 2009.

I was recently at a two-day conference, and sat through about 18 hours worth of presentations spread out over 8 or 9 sessions.  While I enjoyed almost all of them, I found myself jotting down pet-peeves or annoyances as they presented themselves, so to speak.
Presenters:
Repeat the question.  If you take a question from the audience, [...]

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CRM Service Calendar Colours

Posted on May 13th, 2009.

Yes, we spell that with an extra ‘u’ up here in the north – that’s the way the Queen likes it.
Ever wonder what the colours of the appointments on the CRM 4.0 Service Calendar meant?  Me neither, but I got asked about them today so I did some digging.
Turns out the CRM 4.0 Online Help [...]

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Microsoft Enterprise Developer Conference

Posted on May 4th, 2009.

I’m off to Microsoft’s Enterprise Developer Conference today – it’s starts tomorrow but I need travel time to get the dog-sled team from up here in the wilderness of Canada down to the bright lights of NYC.
I’m planning on posting here about what MSFT has in store for developers and end-users alike.  One of the [...]

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