tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74192562009-02-23T16:16:08.415ZI'm living in Dublin, Ireland and this is a collection of ramblings about my day-to-day activities in the exciting world of web development ;-) Technologies used and projects under development. Also links of interest, mostly completely work un-related....Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05554098429511739925noreply@blogger.comBlogger196125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419256.post-50571782360160869062009-02-10T16:39:00.000Z2009-02-10T16:39:01.350Z

Unfortunately most corporate customers are still using IE6, this has a number of knock on effects even when fully patched Listing screens can popup a “download file” box asking if you want to download a file called Blank.aspx. Apparently this is a problem with a recent service patch for IE6. The completely unsupported fix for this is to locate the blank.aspx file in the CRM web directory

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I was out with a customer recently and he asked me to look at why their CRM server was running so slowly. After running performance monitor on their server and looking at counters for Memory, CPU, SQL, IIS, CRM Async I couldn’t see any of them taking a hit. This was a 8 processor server with 16GB of RAM but opening a contact or account took 4 to 5 seconds. As soon as I disabled the McAfee “On

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There are a few oddities with the duplicate detection and how delays in when it updates its internal list of “duplicates to check” by running the MatchCode system jobs can cause unpredictable results. If you enter a phone number for a contact and then enter the same phone number immediately afterwards for a different contact CRM may not have run its "matchcode" job yet to update its internal

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If your VAIO (or any other laptop) doesn’t recognise SD cards over 2GB and SDHC cards then this Vista driver upgrade will sort it out for you. Dell, HP, Gateway and many others all use the same Texas Instruments Integrated FlashMedia Controller which appears as “Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Integrated Flash media controller” in the device manager. I couldn’t find a VAIO drive update that worked

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I was feeling brave so decided to upgrade my MWG Atom Life phone to a unofficial custom build as mentioned in this post. My phone is now running Version 6.1.0.9 by Medkid who has done a great job. There are plenty of new utilities in the programs and everything seems to work The new “Instant Messaging like” threaded view of SMS messages in WM 6.1 is great but I tend to agree with Paul Thurrott

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Hello all The lack of posting of late is mainly due to being busy on a number of CRM 4.0 projects. This information on CRM v5 was leaked onto the internet and then pulled from a microsoft blog. It was gathered Microsoft Professional Developers' Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles  a couple of weeks a ago. CRM v5.0 goes under the codename CRM v.Next at present. This information

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When you install the Outlook client for Microsoft Dynamics CRM version 4 it asks you if you want to make it "Offline capable". If you choose yes it will create a SQL Server Express edition database in the following folder in windows XP. C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\MSCRM\Data If you work for a large company and the IT dept has implemented roaming profiles for

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I have been using Windows Mobile based phones for a good few years now. My first was a Compaq iPaq and then an i-mate JAM all of which ran Windows Mobile 2003 SE.I picked up one of these Mobile Wireless Group (MWG) Atom Life phones. First of all for the features it provides at €230 ex VAT its a bargain. I paid around €500 for the iMate JAM when it first came out. Windows mobile 6 is a BIG

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In a previous post I described how contrary to Sony's spec I managed to upgrade to 4GB of RAM on a Sony Vaio AR 21s.A small but annoying issue. Vista still thinks that there is 2GB of RAM every time to put it to "sleep"/"Hibernation". This gets tricky when it tries to put 3.1GB of memory available to windows into a 2GB disk hiberfile.sys file. The hard drive does not like this and I ended up

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Please excuse the following post, I'm going on a rant here….You buy a laptop with HD bluray drive and a HDMI port, then buy a HDTV with HDMI but can you get them to work ? Oh dear god no, not if you are running Vista. I upgraded my laptop from XP to Vista and that's when the problems started. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't go back to XP but the time I have wasted on this has been huge.When I got

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In case you haven't heard, today is Firefox 3 download day, they are trying to set a world record for downloads. My first impression to this was a new record in the number server crashes due to the demand but the download was as zippy as ever from the Mozilla siteDo you part...Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008Check out Paul Thurrott's review of the new features in Firefox 3

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In association with PMI we recently held the first Dynamics CRM event for the public sector in the Microsoft Atrium building in Sandyford, Dublin. My colleague John Thompson demonstrated how to use CRM version 4 to perform the following tasks using a fictional freedom of information (FIO) system. Capture the information from multiple sources Route to the relevant user / team Process

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If you have Vista SP1 you should be able to get this feature pack from your PC manufacturer. Microsoft do not seem to be providing a download directly yet. This software update includes the following components or features that improve wireless support in Windows Vista: Bluetooth version 2.1 support Unified Pairing user interface Windows Connect Now updates More Info on Windows

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New CRM v4 Virtual Machine is out. This is the final released v4 product, not a beta pre-release VM that was only available until now. It expires in April 2009.A word of warning, if you are still using the v3 CRM VM it will expire in April 2008. Type Start-->Run-->WinVer in the VM to get the exact date. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Virtual MachineThese VM machines are excellent as the requirements

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Ok, I ran a marathon last year, great achievement, well done etc.etc. but this guy is running 50 of them over the next 50 months.I heard him on the Ian Dempsey breakfast show on Today FM radio station, he is a ex-member of the band the SawDoctors and has a few marathons under his belt already. Quite an inspiring story about his son becoming ill and being close to death so he wants to change

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I have a Sony Vaio AR Series laptop (exact model Sony AR 21s) that Sony says comes with a limit of 2GB of RAM. I wanted to upgrade this to 4GB of RAM but was not sure if it would work. The reason for the upgrade is that I am using Virtual Machines for CRM and Test environments more often and the "host" operating system has been struggling to keep up with these VM memory hogs in addition to

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With all my new found love for my laptop this article came as a reliefArmistice: Toshiba Ends Hi-Def DVD Format War, Halts Production of HD DVDI firmly planted myself in the Blu-Ray camp when I bought my Sony Vaio laptop in October 2006 and more by fluke than any insight on my part it looks like the Blu-Ray camp has won.There is a amusing youtube video with Hitler in his bunker getting bad news

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My favourite blog is now The Bad Ambassador, its new, its entertaining and yes, he is "really spoiling us"….

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I recently wrote a blog entry about upgrading my laptop from XP to Vista home premium which I received free from Sony from the Vista Express upgrade program. I thought that the Home Premium edition would be sufficient for development of software as I do not usually connect to a windows domain. This proved to be wishful thinking however and I recently upgraded to Vista Ultimate edition to allow me

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Well I did the marathon on the monday, and feel every bit of it today. The day started with an unnatural 6am start. Then because I didn't know when the traffic restrictions were going to kick with road closures in I left about 6:45 to get into town. They say you should be there 1 hour early but I have no idea why they want to you stand around for an hour beforehand in shorts and a t-shirt in

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A project I am currently working on has just had an accessibility review performed by cFit and one of their suggestions was to cut down dependency on JavaScript or at least tell the users that the website requires it.In ASP.Net you have a great feature to detect the "browser capabilities" and determine if it's a mobile browser, supports javascript etc. Unfortunately this will only tell you IF the

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I was looking into getting this accessory for an iPod nano that wirelessly transmits from your running shoe to your iPod nano which is small enough to bring on runs with you.Apple Store Nike + iPod Sport Kit I like the idea of being able to track my running progress with a Nano. I was not impressed with having to switch to Nike running shoes from my Asics to use it. There is a notch that's cut

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Two major Vista fix packs are now available for download which I can highly recommend downloading. The 2nd of these fixes a "insufficient resources" bug which I have encountered MANY times and nearly made me go back to XP where you can not copy large files from a network share regardless of the amount of free space you have. Extremely annoying for copying video files and Virtual Machine Hard

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I did not want to have to reinstall all my applications and do a Clean install of Vista Home Premium which would involve hours reinstalling Visual Studio .Net, SQL Server and all the development tools and programs.PreparationRan the vista upgrade advisor and it told me to uninstalled McAffee virus protection, Toshiba Bluetooth stack and Sonic Solutions Software. It didn't tell me to uninstall

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I was down in Cork for TheWho concert at the weekend which was a great gig at the Marquee, however when I loaded outlook on Sunday evening to catch up on my emails I had over 1000 emails from various mail servers around the world saying that "Your mail could not be delivered" and "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender". It appears that someone has used an email address at my spotlightIT.com domain

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