I am often asked by my clients if Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 can automatically schedule and perform a repeating task, such as sending an email notification to a Contact every year or adding a Note to a Contact record every day. One trivial solution to this problem is developing a custom module that will be repeatedly launched by Windows Scheduled Tasks feature or Windows Service and perform the required task. Another solution, one that does not require writing code , can be implemented using the...
I have been using the term Vanilla for quite some time now to describe Microsoft Dynamics CRM application when referring to the state in which it comes right out of the box. What I meant to say was “ Plain and without any extras or adornments”. But why Vanilla? Only recently I have discovered the origin of this term in the ice cream flavors analogy crudely illustrated here: ...