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Few hours ago Microsoft has released CRM juicy Update Rollup 7. Now, somebody please tell me what’s wrong with this picture:

Bing does not return direct link to a rollup download on the first 10 (ten) pages. Until Bing team refocuses their attention from selecting warm and fuzzy pictures to actually delivering relevant and timely search results, Google will stay as my default search engine.

Yahoo! performed equally bad with the link not found on the first few pages:

Unfortunately, two wrongs don’t make it right.

Cheers.

‘Nuff said.

As part of my regular fitness regime, I tend to watch a lot of tennis. So, there I was at 1am, observing the flogging Venus Williams was delivering to the next victim and raking my junk mail to see if there are any good replica watches on offer. And here it was:

Dear George Doubinski,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! The MVP Award is our way to say thank you for promoting the spirit of community and improving people’s lives and the industry’s success every day.

...

"Improving people's lives"? This certainly never crossed my mind but having it as a side-effect certainly tickles the ego.

But, all in all, I feel honoured and privileged to be even considered in the same league as some other MVPs you might already know.

Ah, yes, the blogging, you might ask. I've been absolute slack extremely busy last couple months - we went online as a Hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner (don't get me started on what's involved) as well as had the financial year wrapped up.

Now I'm back and yes, I owe more parts on scripting. Stay tuned.

With virtually unlimited customisation capabilities of Microsoft CRM, vertical markets always represent infinite opportunities for developing new business. As Bob Walsh mentioned in Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality:

...one in twenty of all the left-handed accountants in firms of fewer than ten people will do quite nicely for your bank accounts for starters.

After some unorthodox research followed  by a long and lonely but by no means tedious development, we are proud to announce the release of our first vertical Microsoft Dynamics CRM schema. And it looks like it hit the sweet spot and users are already raving about it:

It’s a piece of work... They can focus on whacking other problems now. And the boss got no beef with the Report Wizard telling it like it is.

Read the full announcement on AlexaCRM site.

I think I got it right. Have been programming for too long. Sigh.

As unassuming title of this blog suggests, it's all about Microsoft Dynamics CRM I spend most of my professional life working with these days. Occasionally I'll be crossing to some neighbouring technologies, Sharepoint in particular.

I've been putting off blogging for quite some time and seem to have reached the point where my OneNote pages are overflowing with seemingly cool ideas CRM community remains blissfully unaware of. Stay tuned as I'll be trying to flush content of my brain trust over the next few weeks.

So, without further ado: welcome to Georged™ blog.