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June 10, 2019Dynamics365 PowerApps AI Builder PreviewAI Builder is the name of a new Power Platform capability that offers turnkey AI solutions based on Microsoft AI Technologies. It is a great… → June 6, 2019Business Blog The IKEA Effect and The Power PlatformEveryone that has attended some of my recent sessions knows that I have used IKEA as an example in a few occasions. There are genuinely… → May 21, 2019Technical Blog Flow vs Logic Apps – Why am I a convert?There has been quite a lot of debate on whether to use Microsoft Flow or what it was seen as its “big brother” Azure Logic… → May 8, 2019Dynamics365 · Events DynamicsUG Virtual Camp April’19 releaseI had the pleasure of being invited by the team at the Spanish speaking Dynamics365 User Group community to present in the 3-Day Virtual Training… → May 5, 2019Dynamics365 The MVP ShowA few weeks back I had the pleasure of being interviewed by fellow MVP Mark Smith – a.k.a. NZ365Guy – for his MVP Show podcast.… →

January 2, 2017Technical Blog XrmToolBox : Marketing List Manager PluginBack when Microsoft released CRM 2013, they introduced a new feature to allow outer joins in FetchXML . You can find more details in this blog post about Left Joins in CRM 2013. The annoying thing is that this feature… →

June 1, 2014Business Blog · Featured · Posts Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.I am sure that by now you have already read about the rather surprising collaboration announcement between two of the biggest rivals in the CRM… →

June 22, 2013Business Blog · Featured · Posts When more becomes less. The Presenter’s ParadoxI have done my fair share of software presentations over the years, and I more than once have committed the crime of trying to impress… → June 22, 2013Business Blog · Featured · Posts · Technical Blog RebootingIt has being a long time since I last updated this blog. More than 3 years! Time flies. During that time lots of things have… →

February 20, 2010Technical Blog Logging for Update Rollup setupsThis is just a short post to provide a quick tip that you might find useful when installing Update Rollups, an any Windows Installer based… → February 12, 2010Technical Blog Adding LinkedIn to Dynamics CRMLinkedIn is the most successful professional social network with more than 60 million users worldwide. At the end of the last year LinkedIn opened up… →

November 24, 2009Technical Blog Creating a Multi Field Search screen in Dynamics CRMFew months ago I was reading a fantastic post from Adi Katz about how to dynamically compose Fetch XML queries and display them on a… → November 21, 2009Technical Blog Summary of xRM and CRM 5 at PDC09This week the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) was held in Los Angeles. Among tons of announces and cool things around Windows Azure and Silverlight… → October 24, 2009Technical Blog Collapsable Form Sections – a bit of the future in CRM 4On the last year PDC demos we saw that Dynamics CRM 5 will come with an improved and less clicky UI to enable an even… → October 22, 2009Technical Blog Update Rollup 7 – Amazing Outlook Client improvementsThe CRM SE team has just released the Update Rollup 7 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, this is a cumulative update including all the previous… → September 26, 2009Technical Blog Code Camp.es 2009 and xRMNext 17th and 18th of October the Spanish Code Camp 2009 will be taking place at a fantastic location at Tarragona. The Code Camp is… → September 24, 2009Technical Blog Creating Master Detail views in Dynamics CRMOne of the most typical “somewhat” unsupported customisations on Dynamics CRM is using IFrames to show associated views. This technique enables a nicer user interface… → August 12, 2009Technical Blog Epicenter 2009 – Dynamics CRM at the Irish Software ShowNext 27th of August I’ll be at the Epicenter 2009 conference delivering a session about Microsoft Dynamics CRM. I want to thanks the guys from… → August 4, 2009Technical Blog Hiding the left navigation panel on a CRM entityThis one started as a weird requirement, although it was totally justified from the clients perspective. In one of our customers deployment there was a… → August 3, 2009Technical Blog VPC Expiration How ToThese days we all work with loads of VPCs for different purposes: development, demoing, testing… One of the main concerns when using downloaded demo VPCs… → July 16, 2009Technical Blog What is xRM? Watch the videoMicrosoft has published a really nice video that summarises the concept of xRM in one minute and a half. Definitely worth watching. → June 9, 2009Technical Blog Show custom warning messages on Microsoft Dynamics CRMUsing JavaScript is a quite common approach for client side validation and interaction on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM forms. In many occasions we need to… → June 9, 2009Technical Blog Cannot create a connection to data source ‘CRM’.The title of this post is a funny error message that you can get when trying to run a report. Initially you might see “Reporting… → January 31, 2009Events CRM Discovery Days – AthensTwo days deep technical training to discover the capacities that Microsoft Dynamics CRM brings for ISVs to build solutions and products on top of it.… → January 31, 2009Events CRM Discovery Days – ZurichTwo days deep technical training to discover the capacities that Microsoft Dynamics CRM brings for ISVs to build solutions and products on top of it.… → January 31, 2009Events CRM Discovery Days – AmsterdamTwo days deep technical training to discover the capacities that Microsoft Dynamics CRM brings for ISVs to build solutions and products on top of it.… → January 31, 2009Events CRM Discovery Days – BucharestTwo days deep technical training to discover the capacities that Microsoft Dynamics CRM brings for ISVs to build solutions and products on top of it.… → January 20, 2009Technical Blog Starting 2009 as a renewed MVP & Microsoft Dynamics CRM Discovery DaysThe new year has started with lots of exciting projects here at AlfaPeople, and many many ideas for cool stuff that we want to do… → January 17, 2009Events CRM Discovery Days – PragueThe Microsoft Dynamics CRM Discovery Days are a 2 (two) day free training class that teaches you how to use Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a… →

October 31, 2008Technical Blog Convergence EMEA 2008 – I’ll be thereOnly 3 weeks left for the Convergence EMEA 2008! This year I have the pleasure of attending again, and the honor of having the opportunity… → September 10, 2008Technical Blog Bulk edit for Dynamics CRM EntitiesYou probably already know about a feature calledbulk edit on Microsoft Dynamics CRM that lets you modify several records at once, this is definitely a… → September 9, 2008Technical Blog The CRM BookI’m probably the last one to comment about this book, but I guess that is better to do it late than never. As you may… → September 7, 2008Events Convergence EMEA 2008Convergence is the main event for the Microsoft Dynamics Family. This year Convergence EMEA will be held again in Copenhaguen during the 19-20 of November.… → September 7, 2008Technical Blog How to get a re-open activity button on Dynamics CRM 4.0I’ve been working with Dynamics CRM for many moons, but I → September 7, 2008Technical Blog WelcomeWelcome to “El del CRM”! I could write some boring things telling you the purpose of this site, →