There will be some downtime while I fix the problem. I sure wish Google would be more helpful in identify what about your site really is suspicious.
Phil

Here’s yet another link to a post I wrote for Altriva Solutions’ blog. Intro:

Here’s a quick gotcha I saw on the CRM Forums. When configuring the CRM Client for Outlook, you enter http://servername:port/ORGNAME in the Internet address field and you get a cryptic error stating “Mandatory updates for Microsoft Dynamics CRM could not be applied successfully. Try running the application again.”

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If you’re like me, you’ll at least feel a little better once “Microsoft knows” about a bug you’ve discovered.

That’s because the helper dll’s that Microsoft provides to help with Passport authentication are x86 dlls. To fix this issue, stop using these helper dll’s, or target x86 in your build settings. The steps to do this are:

1. In Visual Studio, right-click your project and click “Properties”.

2. In the “Build” tab, set your “Platform Target” to “x86″.

-Phil

Summary: Here at Altriva, like many other organizations, we use CRM for many of our core business processes and use SharePoint for our intranet, document management, and enterprise search. With these two platforms being vital to many of our overall processes we have integrated the two applications. Having also solved this problem for many of our clients, we know how common it is for organizations to use CRM and SharePoint in similar capacities. As a result we felt it would be valuable to share our insight and integration approach.

Read more: http://www.altriva.com/AltrivaBlog/PostID/17.aspx

Here’s a summary:

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 offers powerful functionality to synchronize data between CRM and your local Outlook. Most companies have certain contacts that many users interact with and want in their Outlook but Microsoft CRM does not give you an easy way to pick the contacts you want to bring down to your Outlook. This can be especially useful to users who sync their smart phones, blackberries, etc. to Outlook or Exchange because they can now access their CRM contacts through their phones address book.  Here at Altriva, one of the many “quick business facilitation configurations” we have in our toolkit extends this functionality to allow users (and multiple users per contact) to easily add and remove contacts synchronized to their Outlook. This allows multiple users to sync the same contact to Outlook effortlessly and allows users to decide which contacts they bring to their Outlook.    

http://altriva.com/AltrivaBlog/PostID/16.aspx

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM assumes a vertical tab order within a section. In other words, if you’ve selected a field on a form and press tab, focus will shift to the field below the previous field as opposed to the right of the previous field. This can be frustrating when designing field layout since it is often useful to tab horizontally when filling out a form. This entry will discuss a simple work around using sections without visible headers to allow for horizontal tabbing when appropriate.

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Did you know that you can send a hyperlink shortcut to an entity in CRM 4.0 over email? This functionality is especially useful when team members are collaborating on a customer or case together and want an easy way to link to what they’re working on so that the collaborating team member won’t have to search for the record to find it. But what happens if one team member connects to CRM 4.0 over the company intranet, while the other team member connects using IFD (Internet Facing Deployment)? Depending on network infrastructure, chances are that the sent shortcut will not work for both users. This blog entry will describe a workaround for this scenario.

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