1) You receive a "You must enter a number between 0,00 and 100 000 000 000,00" error message or the value in the Actual Revenue column of a closed opportunity is 10 times more than you expect in Microsoft CRM

2) Contact information is not correctly synchronized with Microsoft CRM Sales for Outlook after you modify the information in Microsoft CRM

Just a quick post to remind people of all the great resources CURRENTLY available.

The MS CRM 1.2 Data Migration Toolkit designed as a one time use set of tools.

Details can be found here

6/2/05

The user who last modified a price list item does not appear in the Last Modified By field in Microsoft CRM 1.2

6/3/2005

Microsoft CRM Sales for Outlook may stop responding when you use the Quick Create form to create a new account

6/3/2005

You cannot remove a user from the sharing settings of an opportunity after you share that opportunity in Microsoft CRM 1.2

6/8/05

You receive an error message when you try to open a past-due activity in Microsoft CRM 1.2

6/8/2005

You may receive an "Invalid price" error message when you save your changes to an opportunity after you add a new product to that opportunity in Microsoft CRM 1.2 

6/8/2005

You receive an error message when you send an e-mail message or apply a manual workflow rule in Microsoft CRM 1.2 

6/8/2005

After you assign a manager to a user in Microsoft CRM 1.2, you cannot remove that manager assignment

6/8/2005

A Microsoft Business Solutions CRM 1.2 hotfix rollup package is available to resolve the problems that are described in article 842167 and in article 839167

6/9/2005

Event 5895 is logged when the Microsoft CRM Deletion Service performs a scheduled cleanup operation, or you receive a "Can't clean up the following tables" error message in Microsoft CRM

6/9/05

You receive a "The name specified contains invalid characters" error message when you try to create a new user account in Microsoft CRM 1.2

6/9/2005

After you specify a quantity of zero in the Quantity box for a product in Microsoft CRM 1.2 and then save the form, you receive an "Invalid Quantity" error message, or an incorrect value appears in the "Extended Amount" column

6/10/2005

Microsoft CRM does not save the default value for a custom Boolean field

6/10/2005

The number 341 appears in the "Status Reason" list when you open an opportunity and then click the Administration tab in Microsoft CRM 1.2

6/15/2005

Canadian addresses are not correctly displayed in Microsoft Business Solutions CRM 1.2

6/17/05

You receive non-delivery reports (NDRs) from some recipients after you send an e-mail message from Microsoft Business Solutions CRM 1.2

6/17/2005

When you try to modify a schema attribute's display name by using Microsoft CRM Deployment Manager, you receive an error message, and Event ID 0 is logged in the Application log

6/20/2005

A GUID appears instead of the product name in the Competitor List by Product report in Microsoft CRM

6/22/2005

You receive an error message when you close an opportunity in Microsoft Business Solutions CRM or in Microsoft Business Solutions CRM Sales for Outlook

6/23/2005

The "Check Names" dialog box opens unexpectedly when you click Snooze in an Outlook reminder for an appointment that you created in Microsoft CRM Sales for Outlook

6/23/2005

Data fields are highlighted in an e-mail message when you use Microsoft Business Solutions CRM

6/24/05

A user does not have the option to save a note after creating the note in Microsoft CRM

From Microsoft Watch!

At an open Q&A session for Microsoft Business Solution partners, Microsoft brass got an earful of what is still bothering them on the ERP and CRM sides of the house, as well as about Microsoft's evolving plan to get them to sell vertically.

The MS CRM Corporate VP's blog

Satya's WebLog

Frontiers of Business Applications

http://blogs.msdn.com/satyanadella/

I found this post by David Cowgill very insightful with regards to what to think about when working within the niche of CRM Software.

Thanks to David for sharing it!

Twelve Steps to CRM Success

Yes, I gave the MS CRM Blog a bit of a make over for two reasons. The first was I wanted two columns so more of my main posts could be shared and the second is that TypePad (in their growth mentality) added all these cool features I had to try out.

There is definitely something to be said for paying for software, because we are basically funding a company to develop better solutions in a systematic way. I have been watching this happen with Newsgator and with SixApart (typepad's developers). 

Microsoft reveals some details of CRM 3.0 The software will come with two new modules and is due by year's end

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COMPUTERWORLD

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/crm/story/0,10801,102957,00.html?source=NLT_AM&nid=102957

JULY 05, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Microsoft Corp. will release a new version of its customer relationship management software around the end of this year. With the new version will come a special edition for small businesses, a subscription-based license for hosting services, and support for more languages, including Chinese and Arabic, Microsoft said today.

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MICROSOFT

BIG NEWS DAY!! Yoohoo!!

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jul05/07-05CRM30PreviewPR.mspx

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INFORMATION WEEK

Microsoft Preps Next-Gen CRM

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165600486 InformationWeek -

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