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Sharepoint 2010 Preview Sneakpeak

view it at: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/sneak_peek/pages/default.aspx

Customize Marketing List (List Member View)

Hello all,
Today i wanted to customize the ‘All Members’ view on the Marketing List entity and couldn’t. I was stuck for 1 hour trying to figure out how to do this. I stumbled upon http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2008/04/02/customize-marketing-list-list-member-view.aspx and Jim explained it perfectly.
Answer:
The ability to Customize the List Member View of a marketing list has not been made available in [...]

Linux: The power of sudo command

Linux: The power of sudo command

This picture explains itself…

CRM 4: Adding tooltips to fields on forms

CRM 4: Adding tooltips to fields on forms

Tooltips are little help messages explaning a field or label (if you hover over a label you will notice a tooltip), I had a requirenment for adding a tooltip to a custom field with some custom help text.
After some digging through i found out the correct JScript property and method:
crmForm.all.my_custom_attribute_c.title = “Add a value here and it should get automatically populated..”;
End Result:
 

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup Packs

Hello all,
I am going to post all the current rollup packs that microsoft has put up on their download site.
Update Rollup 1:
KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/Kb/952858
Download lInk: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=57c6267b-3b13-49dd-bfed-3cc83633aea7
Update Rollup 2:
KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959419
Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=aa671769-61e9-45c4-919f-c88199aa4241
Update Rollup 3:
KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961768
Download Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=05453fa4-9551-4a88-9852-634a9ad0e140
Update Rollup 4:
KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968176
Download Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0ddf8e83-5d9c-4fe7-9ae6-f2713a024071
Update Rollup 5:
KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970141
Download Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5101d801-976b-4c11-bdfc-000b970ef4a3

CRM 4 Client (IE8 & Vista): View Regarding = Blank Page

So i just installed the CRM client on a Vista machine, everything was working well.
I configured the client and was testing the TRACKING of emails.
Tracked an email - worked
View the Email in CRM - worked
View Regarding - nah, dosen’t like that.. blank page - what the..
So i said, maybe we need update rollup 1 for the client so i procceeded to [...]

CRM 4.0 - Server Error in ‘/’ Application

Gday all,
We had recently powered off our CRM 4.0 server (IFD deployment) due to some urgent maintenance.
We powered on the server, waited for it load and then tried to login and got the wonderful ASP .Net error “Server Error in ‘/’ Application” - i though crap.. what’s going on here..
Looked through the event log and found the ASP .Net exception and [...]

OWA 2003: 503 - Service Unavailable

Hello everyone,
I just had the pleasure of not properly shutting down 2 exchange 2003 servers due to some urgent issue we had..
As we were powering them up, everything seemed OK except when a user tried to login, they would get a “503 - Service Unavailable”.
Hmm ok, i thought maybe there’s something wrong with IIS so i ran an “IISRESET” and [...]

WSS 3.0: Deleted Config LDF file - no backups, now what?

Well guys, i just had the pleasure of deleting the LDF database file for my WSS 3.0 dev site.
Why? The server had literally 0.99MB of hard disk space and out of desperation, i deleted the 7GB log file by stopping the sql service and deleting the LDF file - i know, i wasn’t thinking straight…
Anyway, SQL went into [...]

IIS Log File location

One thing i have noticed with windows server is that IIS will keep on creating log files and won’t stop.
You should always delete IIS log files espicially on servers that OWA is being used on ALOT..
Log File locations:
Windows Server 2000/2003

Logfiles are here by default – %SystemDrive%\windows\system32\logfiles

Windows Server 2008

The default location for IIS Logfiles has been moved here - %SystemDrive%\inetpub\logs\LogFiles