Microsoft have updated the CRM Virtual PC Demonstration image - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=57394bc8-5ecc-422e-a066-34189f48f8c8&DisplayLang=en

This one is set to expire 30th November 2008.

 

 

If you need to implement Sharepoint Services (perhaps for dashboard reporting/document repository) to inetgrate with the CRM application and you also have SQL Reporting Services web site also on the same CRM server - then you will have realised that both Sharepoint and Reporting Services want to occupy the same 'default' web site.

There is a great article on MSDN that shows you how the two can co-exist on the same server by repointing the Reporting Services site to a different web site -

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms155921.aspx

Great news on the "IT analyst community acceptance" front with this new report from Forrester. The Forrester Wave™: Midmarket CRM Suites, Q1 2007 (Forrester, February 21, 2007): “The Microsoft brand gives Dynamics CRM major momentum. Microsoft Dynamics CRM is one of the newer products included in our evaluation, but the vendor has made impressive progress building out its solution, which emerged as a Leader for the first time in a Forrester Wave. Microsoft has won more than 7,500 customers since its introduction in late 2003, surpassing much of its competition on this metric. The vendor provides all-around core CRM capabilities in an intuitive, Outlook-style UI and leverages other Microsoft technologies like SharePoint and SQL Server Analysis Services to deliver more advanced capabilities.”

 

To see the report in full, go here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/itanalyst/docs/02-21-07ForresterWave-Midmarket%20CRMSuitesQ12007.aspx