<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/mmm2008-04-25_07.02/rsspretty.aspx?rssquery=en-US;http%3a%2f%2fmicrosoft-crm.spaces.live.com%2ffeed.rss' version='1.0'?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:msn="http://schemas.microsoft.com/msn/spaces/2005/rss" xmlns:live="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cf="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/rss/core/2005" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Workopia Microsoft CRM &amp; CRM Online Blog</title><description>Microsoft Dynamics CRM &amp; CRM Online Blog for Small Medium Businesses - How To Articles, Project Stories, Observations, etc.</description><link>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/</link><language>en-US</language><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 00:17:47 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 00:17:47 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>Microsoft Spaces v1.1</generator><docs>http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification</docs><ttl>60</ttl><live:identity><live:id>-6748524973423804315</live:id><live:alias>microsoft-crm</live:alias></live:identity><image><title>Workopia Microsoft CRM &amp; CRM Online Blog</title><url>http://blufiles.storage.live.com/y1pwmQXDGGCGbMQl3fP4GAUxqX242F-e3tMIZwKkO3zmddBSZdUXRsFRxeN7j1cDl77YZNrgWnvNUA</url><link>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/</link></image><cf:listinfo><cf:group ns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" element="typelabel" label="Type" /><cf:group ns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" element="tag" label="Tag" /><cf:group element="category" label="Category" /><cf:sort element="pubDate" label="Date" data-type="date" default="true" /><cf:sort element="title" label="Title" data-type="string" /><cf:sort ns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" element="comments" label="Comments" data-type="number" /></cf:listinfo><item><title>How To: Installing Microsoft CRM for Outlook Client</title><link>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!263.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana"&gt;&lt;font face=Arial size=4&gt;This is one of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and CRM Online How To Articles that I've written.  My aim for these articles is to be very reader friendly (Microsoft CRM beginners and up) with step by step instructions and lots of screen shots.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana"&gt;&lt;font face=Arial size=4&gt;The task of installing the Microsoft CRM for Outlook Client happens pretty often and it is also on-going, usually when a new Microsoft CRM user is added.  For a small business, this task can be &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;easily&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; managed and administered by your internal resources, even if they are not part of the IT department.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana"&gt;&lt;font face=Arial size=4&gt;For &lt;em&gt;Microsoft &lt;strong&gt;CRM Online&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br&gt;How To: Installing the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online for Outlook Client&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana"&gt;&lt;font face=Arial size=4&gt;For &lt;em&gt;Microsoft &lt;strong&gt;CRM 4.0 On-Premise&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br&gt;How To: Installing the On Premise Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 for Outlook Client&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Note: When installing the Microsoft CRM v4.0 Server from the Volume License media – the install will look for the license key file &lt;strong&gt;automatically&lt;/strong&gt; - very cool, no more manually typing it in!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Note: For Microsoft CRM 4.0 media obtained through the Dynamics ERP product price list/Business Ready Licensing, the license key is&lt;strong&gt; NOT embedded &lt;/strong&gt;in the media, and must be obtained from your Dynamics CRM Partner, who can obtain them in PartnerSource.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face=Arial size=3&gt;Microsoft Dynamics &lt;a href="http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=56BEB4F0-A2BF-4EAA-B42D-8D3413A66090" target="_blank"&gt;CRM MVP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.workopia.com/Links.htm" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.workopia.com/Links.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.workopia.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" color="#716e6c" size=4&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=-6748524973423804315&amp;page=RSS%3a+Microsoft+Dynamics+CRM+4.0+Product+Key+Location&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=microsoft-crm"&gt;</description><category>Microsoft CRM Installation</category><comments>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!250.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!250.entry</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:19:49 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!250/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!250.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2008-03-20T04:44:04Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>Updates: Update Rollup 2 and 3 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 (KB 927751)</title><link>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!192.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;Last update: 3/17/08&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;Here are the links to the latest public updates available for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 and the approch I'd recommend for applying these updates:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;font color="#000080"&gt;1. Upgrade all the Microsoft CRM 3.0 Outlook Clients to &amp;quot;V3C&amp;quot; if you haven't done so yet.  This is highly recommended.  All new Microsoft CRM Outlook Clients installation should be installed using &amp;quot;V3C&amp;quot;.  Download the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Client for Microsoft Office Outlook Compatibility Update &amp;quot;V3C&amp;quot; via the following &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=740e1b3b-11c3-4aef-b2e3-8309e0cf1bb0&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;&lt;font color="#000080"&gt;link&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=740e1b3b-11c3-4aef-b2e3-8309e0cf1bb0&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=740e1b3b-11c3-4aef-b2e3-8309e0cf1bb0&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;2. Update both the Microsoft CRM 3.0 Server and all the Outlook Clients with the Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 (&lt;a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=927751" target="_blank"&gt;KB 927751&lt;/a&gt;).  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;Download the Update Rollup 2 via the following &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=81674da5-ffef-492a-a7b1-7e1f1951b05f&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;As of 3/17/08&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; 3. Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 (&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d5b1fbbe-dfc2-4a33-b5fd-cae99e8e9dab&amp;amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank"&gt;KB 935364&lt;/a&gt;) is available, please apply Update Rollup 3 &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/font&gt;Update Rollup 2 (Update Rollup 2 &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;is &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;a prerequisite for Update Rollup 3) to the Microsoft CRM 3.0 Server and all Outlook Clients.  You can download Update Rollup 3 via this link:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;List of &lt;a href="http://support.microsoft.com/Kb/935364" target="_blank"&gt;Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 updates and hotfixes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=-6748524973423804315&amp;page=RSS%3a+Updates%3a+Update+Rollup+2+and+3+for+Microsoft+Dynamics+CRM+3.0+(KB+927751)&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=microsoft-crm"&gt;</description><category>Microsoft CRM Update</category><comments>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!192.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!192.entry</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:21:11 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!192/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!192.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2008-04-02T03:42:46Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>Update: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Changes for Microsoft CRM 3.0</title><link>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!176.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Beginning in 2007, daylight saving time (DST) will be extended in the United States. DST will start on March 11, 2007, which is three weeks earlier than usual, and it will end on November 4, 2007, which is one week later than usual. This results in a new DST period that is four weeks longer than in previous years.  This will affect Microsoft CRM 3.0 and update is available. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Here is the link to the &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8a7319e6-5b86-4e7a-9be1-763f2072be21&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Time Zone Data Updates (KB 925874) and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Update Time Zones Wizard (KB 932984)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;1. General Microsoft environment (Windows Operating System, Office, SQL Server, Exchange, etc.) is updated to support DST change, check out the following link:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt; or work with your IT partner.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;2. For Microsoft CRM 3.0, download the following two updates: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Time Zone Data Updates (KB 925874) and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Update Time Zones Wizard (KB 932984) from the following link:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8a7319e6-5b86-4e7a-9be1-763f2072be21&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8a7319e6-5b86-4e7a-9be1-763f2072be21&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Apply &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925874"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;KB 925874&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;, comes with &lt;strong&gt;two &lt;/strong&gt;files - one for applying on the Microsoft CRM Server and one for the Microsoft CRM Outlook Client, instructions are in the KB article&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Apply &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932984"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;KB 932984&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;, comes with &lt;strong&gt;one &lt;/strong&gt;file - for applying on the Microsoft CRM Server, instructions are in the KB article - &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;besure to run the &amp;quot;Microsoft.Crm.SE.TimeZoneSettings.exe&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;As a good practice, always backup your Microsoft CRM environment prior to any updates, check out the following &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/crm/using/deploy/backup.mspx"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Microsoft CRM Backup&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt; link:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/crm/using/deploy/backup.mspx"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/crm/using/deploy/backup.mspx&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=1&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Review the latest update available for Microsoft CRM, here is a &lt;a href="http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!169.entry"&gt;good link&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!169.entry"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!169.entry&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=1&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;DST update is NOT available for Microsoft CRM v1.2, only available for v3.0.  Since v1.2 is no longer supported at this time.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Frank&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.workopia.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" color="#716e6c" size=4&gt;http://www.workopia.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=-6748524973423804315&amp;page=RSS%3a+Update%3a+Daylight+Saving+Time+(DST)+Changes+for+Microsoft+CRM+3.0&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=microsoft-crm"&gt;</description><category>Microsoft CRM Update</category><comments>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!176.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!176.entry</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:45:42 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!176/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!176.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-06-28T16:26:26Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>Business Cards: What To Do With Them - CardScan Microsoft CRM</title><link>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!171.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;It's that time of the year again folks - &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msconvergence.com/"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Convergence 2007&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;font size=4&gt;is just around the corner!  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msconvergence.com/"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Convergence 2007&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt; will take place in sunny San Diego, California, March 11-14.  I was at last year's Convergence 2006 in Dallas, Texas and it was one of the best Microsoft CRM events I'd attended.  Where else can you meet folks from different parts of the world, job roles, age groups, etc. that are passionate about Microsoft CRM in one place to network, exchange ideas/experiences and of course - business cards!!!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p align=center&gt;&lt;a href="http://convergence.leveragesoftware.com/profile_view.aspx?customerid=workopia"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;img alt="Join Me at Convergence Connect!" src="http://convergence.leveragesoftware.com/businesscard.aspx?customerid=workopia" border=0&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;I love business cards, it is like a permission note to stay in touch with someone (by all means don't abuse this privilege, but always try to add value with each correspondence with the contact - the CRM way)! &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;How many business cards did I gathered at last year's Convergence 2006 you'd asked?  I'd collected about 450+ business cards (excluding duplicate ones) so I'm expecting an &lt;em&gt;abundant supply of business cards this time.. Woohoo...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;So, how does an individual goes about dealing with &amp;quot;Business Cards&amp;quot; they'd received?  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;I had spoken to a few folks about how they deal with business cards - the most common response is that they just toss them in the trash or the &amp;quot;big&amp;quot; brown box under their desk afterwards - very sad!  Of course, they did take the ones that are &amp;quot;important&amp;quot; and place those on their desk for entry/follow-up.  Why not enter them ALL into their Contact/CRM system?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Here are a few responses:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&amp;quot;They clutter up my Contact List&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&amp;quot;I will probably not see them ever again so why bother&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&amp;quot;Too much work to enter them and I don't have a good way to MANAGE them - just not worth it&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;I mean, we all will and going to be exchanging physical printed business cards with one another and I don't see it ending anytime soon even with all the electronic versions around - vCard, Web 2.0 Contact Application, PDA, etc.  Oh well, I guess we just have to TYPE them in unless you have a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;college intern &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;around!!!  &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;Manually&lt;/font&gt;, it takes me about a minute to enter each business card and categorize it in Microsoft CRM, with very tired hands afterwards - PAINFUL!  There is a MUCH better way - &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cardscan.com/products/for_crm/mscrm/index.asp?offercode=PROAFF&amp;amp;PID=1896350"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;CardScan for Microsoft CRM&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;!!!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p align=center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cardscan.com/products/for_crm/mscrm/index.asp?offercode=PROAFF&amp;amp;PID=1896350" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height=45 alt="Microsoft CRM" src="http://www.workopia.com/images/CardScan_MSCRM_web.JPG" width=119 border=0&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;p align=left&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Side note: Manual entry of business cards is a poor use of your college &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;intern's &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;time/brain cells.  They can help you find/prepare your next &amp;quot;Value added keep in touch email filled with relevant&lt;font face=Arial color="#000080"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;Technology/Business related articles&amp;quot;...&lt;/font&gt; 
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Here is how I go about with the business cards I'd received from events:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Mark the back of the business cards with a &amp;quot;*&amp;quot; and some notes for the ones that I would like to follow-up immediately after the event, the rest I will &amp;quot;keep in touch&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Scan ALL of the business cards I'd received via &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cardscan.com/products/for_crm/mscrm/index.asp?offercode=PROAFF&amp;amp;PID=1896350"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;CardScan Microsoft CRM&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt; as CRM Leads &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;With &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;CardScan Microsoft CRM&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;, I can default the Lead Topic value to be &amp;quot;Convergence 2007 San Diego, California, March 11-14&amp;quot; and Lead Source value to &amp;quot;Trade Show&amp;quot; for all the scanned cards, for the ones that are &amp;quot;marked&amp;quot;, I set the &amp;quot;Follow-up&amp;quot; flag to &amp;quot;True&amp;quot;. &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;I'd setup a Microsoft CRM Workflow Rule that will &amp;quot;Auto-Create&amp;quot; a follow-up phone call and auto assign it to me when a CRM Lead is created with &amp;quot;Follow-up&amp;quot; value is &amp;quot;True&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;All these contacts are now in my CRM Lead Management system and will be handled via our &amp;quot;Nurture&amp;quot; process&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;This is a pretty simple process, takes very little time, and it works very well for me.&lt;/font&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Side note: Why &amp;quot;Nurture&amp;quot; them?  Because they just may help you connect with or influence your next opportunity! But you have to &amp;quot;keep in touch and add value!&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt; 
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Here are the things that I love about my &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cardscan.com/products/for_crm/mscrm/index.asp?offercode=PROAFF&amp;amp;PID=1896350"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;CardScan Microsoft CRM&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;It just works - scan the business card and it matches/translates into the right fields (Name, Title, Phone, Email, etc.), simply amazing&lt;/font&gt; 
&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Stores an electronic picture of the actual business card in case I need to manually correct any miss-match/translation - nothing is perfect&lt;/font&gt; 
&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;With one click of the &amp;quot;Transfer&amp;quot; button, the scanned business card records get imported into Microsoft CRM as Leads or Contacts (my choice)&lt;/font&gt; 
&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Allows me to set the default values for various Microsoft CRM fields such as Lead Topic, Lead Source, custom field: Follow-up flag, etc.&lt;/font&gt; 
&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Examines each record for duplicate in Microsoft CRM!&lt;/font&gt; 
&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Super, super easy to setup and use plus very affordable even for a small business owner!&lt;/font&gt; 
&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Very compact, about the size of two mobile phones, so I can take it wherever I go and scan my business cards AT the event location&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Yup, you'd guessed it, I will bring my &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cardscan.com/products/for_crm/mscrm/index.asp?offercode=PROAFF&amp;amp;PID=1896350"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;CardScan Microsoft CRM&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt; with me to &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msconvergence.com/"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Convergence 2007&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;!  This way I can scan the business cards there and have more time for the family when I get back!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;Frank&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.workopia.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" color="#716e6c" size=4&gt;http://www.workopia.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;Update Rollup 2 is now available, use Update Rollup 2 going forward.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;Link to newer Update Rollup 2 &lt;a href="http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!192.entry"&gt;writeup&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href="http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!192.entry"&gt;http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!192.entry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;Last update: 4/7/2007&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;Here are the links to the latest public updates available for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 and the approch I'd recommend for applying these updates:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;1. Update the Microsoft CRM 3.0 Server with the Update Rollup 1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;Download the Update Rollup 1 via the following &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=08badb01-4984-458e-96e6-4f08622cfe63&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=08badb01-4984-458e-96e6-4f08622cfe63&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=08badb01-4984-458e-96e6-4f08622cfe63&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=08badb01-4984-458e-96e6-4f08622cfe63&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;Note: No need to apply the Update Rollup 1 for the Microsoft CRM Outlook Clients, but instead apply the following &amp;quot;V3C&amp;quot;:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;2. Upgrade all the Microsoft CRM 3.0 Outlook Clients to &amp;quot;V3C&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;Download the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 clients for Microsoft Office Outlook Compatibility Update via the following &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=740e1b3b-11c3-4aef-b2e3-8309e0cf1bb0&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=740e1b3b-11c3-4aef-b2e3-8309e0cf1bb0&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=740e1b3b-11c3-4aef-b2e3-8309e0cf1bb0&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=740e1b3b-11c3-4aef-b2e3-8309e0cf1bb0&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;&lt;font color="#333399" size=4&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;3. Update Daylight Saving Time (DST) on Microsoft CRM 3.0 Server and Microsoft CRM 3.0 Outlook Clients:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!176.entry"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!176.entry&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;&amp;quot;V3C&amp;quot; will detect your exiting Microsoft CRM Outlook client and will perform an upgrade.  It supports both Vista and Office 2007, plus backward compatible with Windows 2000/XP and Office XP/Office 2003!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;All new Microsoft CRM Outlook clients installation should be installed with &amp;quot;V3C&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;font color="#000080"&gt;As a good practice, always backup your Microsoft CRM environment prior to any updates, check out the following&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/crm/using/deploy/backup.mspx"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Microsoft CRM Backup&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;font color="#000080"&gt; link:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/crm/using/deploy/backup.mspx"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/crm/using/deploy/backup.mspx&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#000080" size=4&gt;4. Review Hotfix below and apply &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;only &lt;/font&gt;if needed.&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000" size=4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Popular Hotfix:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Issue:&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;Microsoft Office Outlook has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Detail:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931270"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Microsoft KB&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931270"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931270&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Action:&lt;/strong&gt; Request this Microsoft CRM Hotfix 931270 via &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/customersource.mspx"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;CustomerSource&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;, apply it only to systems that are experiencing this specific issue. This hotfix may receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next Microsoft Dynamics CRM service pack that contains this hotfix.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: &lt;/strong&gt;This problem is also corrected in an update for the &lt;a href="http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!176.entry"&gt;2007 daylight saving time (DST) changes&lt;/a&gt;. As a good practice, always apply publicly available updates first (since it received more testing) that could resolve the issue(s) prior to requesting Hotfix.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;List of &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908951"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 updates and hotfixes&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;Frank&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.workopia.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" color="#716e6c" size=4&gt;http://www.workopia.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=-6748524973423804315&amp;page=RSS%3a+Updates%3a+Update+Rollup+1+and+Outlook+Client+%22V3C%22&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=microsoft-crm"&gt;</description><category>Microsoft CRM Update</category><comments>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!169.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!169.entry</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:06:37 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!169/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!169.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-06-28T16:26:34Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>What's Next: Microsoft CRM 3.0 Mobile - Part 3</title><link>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!165.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;We had tested the &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ea5a3566-7ec8-4afe-bbfa-91e7210c55c4&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Microsoft CRM Mobile&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt; running on PDA Phone &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/5/devices/devicedetails.mspx?id=51a1fa3f-1364-4280-b234-98c4008f0888"&gt;PPC6700&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;and it performed well (&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://microsoft-crm.spaces.msn.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!163.entry"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Part 2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;).  Here is the current list of PDA and PDA Phones we have tested that works with Microsoft CRM Mobile 3.0 (list will update periodically):&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;-&lt;a href="http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/axim_x51v"&gt;Dell Axim x51v&lt;/a&gt; (April, 2006)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;PDA Phones:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;-Sprint &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/5/devices/devicedetails.mspx?id=51a1fa3f-1364-4280-b234-98c4008f0888"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;PPC6700&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt; (May, 2006)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;-Verizon &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/5/devices/devicedetails.mspx?id=8224ED7F-614E-4a1b-B1F9-70AC619D6595"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;XV6700&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt; (June, 2006)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;-Cingular &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/devices/devicedisplay.aspx?module=deviceDisplay;PPCPhone;americas;239"&gt;8125&lt;/a&gt; (June, 2006)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;-T-Mobile &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/devices/devicedisplay.aspx?module=deviceDisplay;PPCPhone;americas;241"&gt;MDA&lt;/a&gt; (June, 2006)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;As of July, 2006, the fastest mobile broadband data protocol available in the U.S. is &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVDO"&gt;EV-DO&lt;/a&gt; from Sprint, Verizon, Alltel, etc.  The average EV-DO download speeds range from 300 Kbps to 500 Kbps &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;with peak rates of 2.4 Mbps&lt;/font&gt;!  Upload speeds averaging 50 Kbps to 70 Kpbs.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Also, unlimited PDA Phone web/data access plan from &lt;a href="http://powervision.sprint.com/"&gt;Sprint Power Vision Access Pack&lt;/a&gt; is available at $15.00 per month!  Yup - you've guessed it, I went with the Sprint PPC6700 for myself.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Story time - here is an interesting Microsoft CRM Mobile experience during the past month:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;I was visiting one of our Microsoft CRM clients planning for an upgrade to Microsoft CRM v3.0.  They needed to redeploy their production v1.2 over to a test environment to test the v3.0 upgrade.  Microsoft CRM v1.2 installation requires both the Organization Name and matching License Key.  And guess what, the Client didn't have it handy.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;As a practice, we store our clients' License Key under their corresponding CRM Account's notes.  So...  I quickly pulled out my Sprint PPC6700 running our Microsoft CRM Mobile and subscribed to their Account to bring down the needed info.  Bingo, in less than a minute, their License Key appeared on my PDA!  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;That is so efficient!  And the coolest part of it is that the Client after witnessing what just happened wants to evaluate Microsoft CRM Mobile 3.0 for their production use!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Microsoft CRM Mobile - Don't leave home without it!&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;Frank&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.workopia.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" color="#716e6c" size=4&gt;http://www.workopia.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=-6748524973423804315&amp;page=RSS%3a+What's+Next%3a+Microsoft+CRM+3.0+Mobile+-+Part+3&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=microsoft-crm"&gt;</description><category>Microsoft CRM Mobile</category><comments>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!165.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!165.entry</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:59:30 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!165/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!165.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2006-07-03T23:57:05Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>What's Next: Microsoft CRM 3.0 Mobile - Part 2</title><link>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!163.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;We had tested the &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ea5a3566-7ec8-4afe-bbfa-91e7210c55c4&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Microsoft CRM 3.0 Mobile&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt; running on the &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/axim_x51v"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Dell Axim x51v PDA&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt; and it performed well (&lt;a href="http://spaces.msn.com/microsoft-crm/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!134.entry"&gt;Part 1&lt;/a&gt;), now it is time for trying it on one of those hot PDA Phones running &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile"&gt;Windows Mobile 5&lt;/a&gt; currently available in the US market as of June, 2006:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Here are three PDA Phones and their specifications that we've considered.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/5/devices/devicedetails.mspx?id=51a1fa3f-1364-4280-b234-98c4008f0888"&gt;PPC6700&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/5/devices/devicedetails.mspx?id=8224ED7F-614E-4a1b-B1F9-70AC619D6595"&gt;XV6700&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;-2.88&amp;quot; 240x320 Pixel TFT Touch Screen &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;-Intel XScale PXA270 Processor at 416MHz&lt;br&gt;-64MB SDRAM and 128MB Flash ROM&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;-Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/5/devices/devicedetails.mspx?id=b7dbc6d8-3dae-45ad-bdd6-0e23c527355e"&gt;Motorola Q&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;-2.4&amp;quot; 320x240 Pixel TFT Touch Screen&lt;br&gt;-Intel XScale PXA272 Processor at 312MHz&lt;br&gt;-64MB SDRAM and 128MB Flash ROM&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;-Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/5/devices/devicedetails.mspx?id=a1f61696-46c7-4df2-9092-1a6082b728fd"&gt;Treo 700w&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;-2.5&amp;quot; 240x240 Pixel TFT Touch Screen&lt;br&gt;-Intel XScale PXA272 Processor at 312MHz&lt;br&gt;-32MB SDRAM and 128MB Flash ROM&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;-Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Why just these three?  There are a lot of PDA Phones on the market, here is a &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/devices/pocketpc/phone/americas.mspx"&gt;current list of Windows Mobile 5 phones&lt;/a&gt;.  I think these three represent the most popular and powerful PDA Phones running Windows Mobile 5.0 that are currently available - please comment to let me know if another model should be added on the above list.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Also, these are the models that many of our Microsoft CRM customers and prospects repeatedly asked about.  Now, we all know that the mobile device market comes out with new models pretty fast, so these three bad boys may not even be on the list next year...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Something very interesting immediately came up - none of these phones meet the 3.5&amp;quot; screen size and 526MHz requirements listed for running &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ea5a3566-7ec8-4afe-bbfa-91e7210c55c4&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;Microsoft CRM 3.0 Mobile&lt;/a&gt;!!!  The good news on screen size is that it really doesn't matter as long as the screen resolution requirement is met which is 240x320.  Regarding the processor speed, well, I guess the only thing we can do is observe the performance... &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Oops, looks like we need to eliminate the Treo 700w from our list!!!  Even if it is not the screen resolution, the minimum 64MB RAM requirement would have nailed the Treo.  Sorry Treo lovers, maybe wait on the next model for running Microsoft CRM 3.0 Mobile.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;So we are down to the PPC6700/XV6700 or Motorola Q.  Overall, the PPC6700/XV6700 is a faster device (416MHz vs. 312MHz) and has a bigger screen (2.88&amp;quot; vs 2.4&amp;quot;).  Here are other &amp;quot;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;subjective&lt;/font&gt;&amp;quot; points:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;1. The PPC6700/XV6700 came out a few months earlier which means more &amp;quot;field tested&amp;quot; - has an &lt;a href="http://www.utstar.com/handsets/Downloads.aspx"&gt;updated ROM&lt;/a&gt; available, more feedbacks/workarounds from the user community. It is a good practice to install the latest ROM (if available) before installing Microsoft CRM Mobile.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;2. The PPC6700/XV6700 keyboard is much easier on the fingers since the buttons are larger than the Motorola Q.  After typing on both devices, the bigger keypad on the PPC6700 via the sliding out keyboard from the side is a major plus!&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Gosh, I'd almost missed the point that the Motorola Q is a Smartphone.  This is a problem since Microsoft CRM Mobile only works on Pocket PC or Pocket PC Phone Edition.  So, the Q gotta go...  Link to &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/about/faq.mspx#2"&gt;Pocket PC Phone vs. Smartphone&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;I guess it is pretty easy at this point - only the PPC6700/XV6700 remains.  And the good news is that the Microsoft CRM 3.0 Mobile was successfully installed on the PPC6700 without any issue!  The installation process was the same as the Axim x51v.  The amazing thing is that the performance is quite good, it feels about the same as that of the Axim x51v!&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;More field usage observations to come...&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;Frank&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.workopia.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" color="#716e6c" size=4&gt;http://www.workopia.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=-6748524973423804315&amp;page=RSS%3a+What's+Next%3a+Microsoft+CRM+3.0+Mobile+-+Part+2&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=microsoft-crm"&gt;</description><category>Microsoft CRM Mobile</category><comments>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!163.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!163.entry</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 03:18:50 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!163/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!163.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2006-06-13T05:35:52Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>What's Next: Microsoft CRM 3.0 Mobile</title><link>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!134.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;We've finally got a chance to play with the just released &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ea5a3566-7ec8-4afe-bbfa-91e7210c55c4&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Microsoft CRM 3.0 Mobile&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;, the setup from the implementation guide was pretty straight forward (for us anyway) and our initial environment was up and running in a few hours.  We've decided to start with the &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/axim_x51v"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Dell Axim x51v PDA&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;.  The main reason we went with the Axim x51v vs. one of them hot PDA phones is that it will serve as a good baseline - &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;the x51v fulfilled all the Microsoft CRM 3.0 Mobile requirements with extra room to spare... except for the phone part...  And it supports VGA screen resolution mode - 480x640 baby!!!  Check out the screen shots below, isn't VGA awesome - so much more space!!!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;1. Have a baseline Microsoft CRM 3.0 environment that is running properly, setup the environment with only Microsoft CRM 3.0 required components as much as possible to minimize trouble-shooting variables down the road.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;2. Make sure that someone in your team knows about SSL setup if you are setting up your own Certificate Authority (CA) via Microsoft Certificate Services.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;3. Use a good &amp;quot;remote control&amp;quot; PDA tool such as the &lt;a href="http://www.soti.net/default.asp?Cmd=Products&amp;amp;SubCmd=PCPro"&gt;Pocket Controller Professional from SOTI&lt;/a&gt;.  This saved us a lot of time!!!  I'm able to terminal service into our Microsoft CRM 3.0 test environment running Microsoft CRM 3.0 Mobile and also &amp;quot;remote control&amp;quot; the x51v while being far away from the lab - very cool!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Lastly, l&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;ot of folks asked me what is the big deal about Microsoft CRM Mobile...  And my response is that it will be the next practical &amp;quot;must have&amp;quot; technology for the majority of outside field representative roles in the Small Medium Businesses space!  Because they can &amp;quot;afford&amp;quot; to implement it now.  Welcome any comment if you agree/disagree?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;Frank&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.workopia.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" color="#716e6c" size=4&gt;http://www.workopia.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="0" border="0"&gt;&lt;tr height="8"&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blufiles.storage.live.com&amp;#47;y1pwmQXDGGCGbMI8vRpbFMZpD0jp44TbvUAbQjMy-kWk6xgXXZd3po7nvRruMOik-BcW0qGMcw8NXs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://storage.live.com&amp;#47;items&amp;#47;A2586C4AB938C065&amp;#33;146&amp;#58;thumbnail" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="15"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blufiles.storage.live.com&amp;#47;y1pwmQXDGGCGbN7w09BO90wO344yFh3Slxctp_Ci50yDSwSwDycdBl5HBZ5DK5QwrF_zh-Nk9Tg9lQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://storage.live.com&amp;#47;items&amp;#47;A2586C4AB938C065&amp;#33;147&amp;#58;thumbnail" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="15"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=-6748524973423804315&amp;page=RSS%3a+What's+Next%3a+Microsoft+CRM+3.0+Mobile&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=microsoft-crm"&gt;</description><category>Microsoft CRM Mobile</category><comments>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!134.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!134.entry</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 07:21:26 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!134/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!134.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2006-06-12T03:20:12Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>Convergence 2006: Meeting with Jeff Raikes</title><link>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!128.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Wow, what a wonderful event - &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/Convergence"&gt;Convergence 2006&lt;/a&gt; rocks!  I had a great time meeting with others around the globe that are super passionate about Microsoft CRM as I am - these folks range from Microsoft CRM engineers to Value Added Resellers (VAR).  There were a lot of &amp;quot;Love&amp;quot; for Microsoft CRM 3.0!!!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;During Convergence, I'd felt like I was in an amusement park - so much to see and play, all the walking back and forth for 4 straight days were worth it, next time I should wear tennis shoes!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;The Microsoft CRM General Session with Brad Wilson and David Thacher really showcased the future direction of Microsoft CRM.  The big announcement is the new Hosting/Subscription offering!  It is here... Salesforce.com better watch-out!  It just amazes me how these two Microsoft CRM General Managers have positioned Microsoft CRM 3.0 to be able to serve all three business market segments - Enterprise, Mid-Market and Small Businesses in such a short time frame!  My hat is off to you, Brad and David!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Now, it was not all play at Convergence, I did do some work - mind you...  I'd co-presented at two Microsoft CRM sessions, one was focused on Microsoft CRM 3.0 Small Business Edition with Sean McNellis and the other was on Microsoft CRM 3.0 Reports with Dana Martens!  Sean and Dana are super smart individuals who really know their stuff.  They and their teammates are also the ones that help bail-out partners and customers on Microsoft CRM technical issues!!!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Lastly, I was invited to meet &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/jeff"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Jeff Raikes&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;, President of the Microsoft Business Division.  No surprise, we've talked about Microsoft CRM...  It was a huge honor to meet Jeff like this, I guessed I had a winning lottery ticket!  Jeff is a real down to Earth guy, during his Keynote on Sunday morning, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/burgum"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Doug Burgum&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt; introduced him as &amp;quot;a farm boy that went to Stanford...&amp;quot;  It was very comfortable talking with Jeff, he really listens to you and offers helpful advice when asked.  Well, this is a Kodak moment for me, thank you Jeff!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;So Jeff, could I get some special seating at the Seattle Mariners baseball games?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="0" border="0"&gt;&lt;tr height="8"&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blufiles.storage.live.com&amp;#47;y1pwmQXDGGCGbMVlipJrXv96jThzwJ3DwCYhzsanJx3vIMuX0Ix72ZJqE8MZLqhakGTTU9MLHpUXYI"&gt;&lt;img src="http://storage.live.com&amp;#47;items&amp;#47;A2586C4AB938C065&amp;#33;131&amp;#58;thumbnail" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="15"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=-6748524973423804315&amp;page=RSS%3a+Convergence+2006%3a+Meeting+with+Jeff+Raikes&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=microsoft-crm"&gt;</description><category>Microsoft CRM</category><comments>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!128.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!128.entry</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:48:23 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!128/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!128.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2006-04-04T06:14:54Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>Easier Install: Microsoft CRM 3.0 Less Dependency on Active Directory</title><link>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!124.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Gosh, I've been installing Microsoft CRM since v1.0 (starting with v1.0 Beta in 2002) - All I can say is that 3.0 continues to amaze me on how much easier it is to install and comes with much improved proactive pre-install checks.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=-6748524973423804315&amp;page=RSS%3a+Easier+Install%3a+Microsoft+CRM+3.0+Less+Dependency+on+Active+Directory&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=microsoft-crm"&gt;</description><category>Microsoft CRM</category><comments>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!124.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!124.entry</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:26:47 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!124/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!124.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2006-03-15T12:27:13Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>Must Checkout: Microsoft Convergence 2006</title><link>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!123.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;I'd highly recommend anyone that is serious about Microsoft Dynamics CRM to attend this event.  Yours truly will be a speaker for some Microsoft CRM sessions - guess which ones???  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Hope to see you all there so we can share good stories about our Microsoft CRM experiences.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Convergence 2006 website:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;Frank&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.workopia.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" color="#716e6c" size=4&gt;http://www.workopia.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=-6748524973423804315&amp;page=RSS%3a+Must+Checkout%3a+Microsoft+Convergence+2006&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=microsoft-crm"&gt;</description><category>Microsoft CRM</category><comments>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!123.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!123.entry</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:49:55 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!123/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!123.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2006-03-13T17:56:51Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>How To: Displaying the Knowledge Base object in Microsoft CRM Outlook Client</title><link>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!121.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;font-family:Verdana"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;How To: &lt;font color="#000000"&gt;Displaying the Knowledge Base object in Microsoft CRM Outlook Client&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;font-family:Verdana"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.workopia.com/howto/DisplayKnowledgeBaseOutlookClient.htm"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;http://www.workopia.com/howto/DisplayKnowledgeBaseOutlookClient.htm&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana"&gt;&lt;font face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" size=4&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;This is very helpful when you'd like to access the Knowledge Base from within the Microsoft CRM 3.0 Outlook Client.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana"&gt;&lt;font face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" size=4&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana"&gt;&lt;font face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;Enjoy and please comment!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;Frank&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.workopia.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" color="#716e6c" size=4&gt;http://www.workopia.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=-6748524973423804315&amp;page=RSS%3a+How+To%3a+Displaying+the+Knowledge+Base+object+in+Microsoft+CRM+Outlook+Client&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=microsoft-crm"&gt;</description><category>Microsoft CRM</category><comments>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!121.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!121.entry</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:54:52 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!121/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!121.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2006-03-06T07:56:29Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>How To: Displaying the Parent Account field from the Microsoft CRM v3.0 contact form in the Outlook 2003 Contacts view</title><link>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!117.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;font-family:verdana"&gt;This is one of the Microsoft CRM 3.0 Customization How To Articles that I've written. My aim is for these articles to be &lt;strong&gt;very reader friendly&lt;/strong&gt; (MSCRM beginners and up) with step by step instructions and lots of screen shots.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;font-family:Verdana"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;font-family:Verdana"&gt;How To: &lt;font color="#000000"&gt;Displaying the Parent Account field from the Microsoft CRM v3.0 contact form in the Outlook 2003 Contacts view&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;font-family:Verdana"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.workopia.com/howto/DisplayParentAccountOutlookContactForm.htm"&gt;&lt;font face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" size=4&gt;http://www.workopia.com/howto/DisplayParentAccountOutlookContactForm.htm&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.workopia.com/howto/AddingCustomField.htm"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font color="#716e6c"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana"&gt;&lt;font face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" size=4&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;This is very helpful when you'd like to quickly tell within normal Outlook View which contact is a Microsoft CRM contact.  Also good for sorting/cleaning up your regular Outlook contacts and Microsoft CRM Outlook contacts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana"&gt;&lt;font face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana"&gt;&lt;font face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;Enjoy and please comment!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066"&gt;Frank&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.workopia.com/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" color="#716e6c" size=4&gt;http://www.workopia.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=-6748524973423804315&amp;page=RSS%3a+How+To%3a+Displaying+the+Parent+Account+field+from+the+Microsoft+CRM+v3.0+contact+form+in+the+Outlook+2003+Contacts+view&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=microsoft-crm"&gt;</description><category>Microsoft CRM</category><comments>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!117.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!117.entry</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2006 08:27:36 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!117/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!117.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2006-03-06T07:57:09Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>News: My New Microsoft CRM Blog Space</title><link>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!116.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;Alrighty, I will be using this blog space going forward to share my experiences on Microsoft CRM - one of my New Year resolutions!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;For a link to my previous Microsoft CRM blog space:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://microsoft-crm.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;font size=4&gt;http://microsoft-crm.blogspot.com/&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=-6748524973423804315&amp;page=RSS%3a+News%3a+My+New+Microsoft+CRM+Blog+Space&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=microsoft-crm"&gt;</description><category>Microsoft CRM</category><comments>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!116.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!116.entry</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:49:40 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!116/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!116.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2006-01-28T18:49:40Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>Blog list: Blog list</title><link>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Lists/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!105</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com&amp;#47;microsoft_crm_western_region_news"&gt;Michael Rich&amp;#58; Western Region Microsoft CRM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com&amp;#47;MidAtlanticCRM&amp;#47;"&gt;Ben Vollmer&amp;#58; Mid Atlantic Microsoft CRM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tekoppele.com&amp;#47;blog&amp;#47;"&gt;a CRM Freak - Menno te Koppele &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com&amp;#47;jim_glass"&gt;Jim Glass&amp;#58; A CRM Riff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com&amp;#47;dynamicscrmonline"&gt;Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com&amp;#47;crm&amp;#47;"&gt;Microsoft CRM Team Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=-6748524973423804315&amp;page=RSS%3a+Blog+list%3a+Blog+list&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=microsoft-crm"&gt;</description><guid isPermaLink="false">cns!A2586C4AB938C065!105</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:23:33 GMT</pubDate><msn:type>bloglist</msn:type><live:type>bloglist</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog list</live:typelabel><cf:itemRSS>http://microsoft-crm.spaces.live.com/Lists/cns!A2586C4AB938C065!105/feed.rss</cf:itemRSS><dcterms:modified>2008-04-02T02:23:33Z</dcterms:modified></item></channel></rss>