Category Archives: Resources

Design for Operations and the Management Model Designer (TSMMD)

Paul Stovell introduced the concept of The Production Architect - which is a role on the project team that is responsible for bridging the gap between IT Pros (Infrastructure) and Devs. Since I have experience on both sides of the fence, it’s a topic that interests me as well. Having experience of both sides makes [...]

Visual Studio 2008 Tip of the Day

Sara Ford (rss) from the Visual Studio core team has been dutifully posting a Tip of the Day every working day since July!
There’s plenty of gold in there, for example:

Did you know… There’s a way to track changes in the editor?
Did you know… Ctrl+W selects the current word
Did you know… you can drag and drop [...]

Enterprise Deployment of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0

Recently I had a discussion about deployment of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 in an Enterprise. This is something I’ve never done on a large scale, but I do have some familiarilty with how CRM hangs together.
Some questions to consider:

How would your Exchange Administrators react if you told them that “I just need to install this [...]

Excel 2007 workbook has [Group] in the title bar

… and everything on the Data ribbon is disabled

… and all sorting and filtering is greyed out

This is because you have two or more worksheets ‘grouped’. A worksheet can be grouped by holding CTRL and selecting an adjacent worksheet.
To ungroup the worksheets, right-click the worksheet tab at the bottom of excel and [...]