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Dynamics Specialist Certification Pocketed

Folks,

Novice has pocketed another Dynamics Specialist Certification for CRM 4.0 on Customization and Configuration. The previous one was on Installation and Deployment.

Many congratulations to me.

Smilez.. |/

Novice is 'Certified'

I am glad to be certified 'Microsoft Business Management Solutions Specialist in Installation and Deployment - Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0'. Moreover I am happy as it's my first certification. I know there are as many respected Microsoft Certified Professionals on our planet as uh (I mean they actually are), I am cheerful to join the gang too. So, congratulations to me.

I am off for celebrations. Cheers!!

On April 08

Ah! About a week late on updating about Novice events this April. That should make you understand that I had been a little busy, both on and off work.

The Sun is shining bright, the humidity is unbearable already and is expected to rise. Summer fall was late this year. Thank God.

April was fantastic month. Attended the MOSS Conference and the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 (Titan) launch event. A two day long conference was enough to gel along with a bunch of IT geeks at the MOSS Conference in Middle East. Joel Oleson, Todd Klindt, Patrick Beeharry, Eray Chou are few to name. They were all amazing. Any hitch in Sharepoint? Contact them. You owe me for marketting you. hehehe. I am sorry, but I just had to write about you guys.

Another short and sweet event was the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 launch. Short and sweet as it lasted 5 hours. Between these events were the satisfying part. The nourishment and refreshments provided via snack grabs and lunch.

Looking forward for more snack grabbing events, oh! I mean conferences, trainings and launch events. Damn! I must get over being foodie crazie!!!!!!!

MOSS 2007 Conference '08

Two long day's and one "Fantastic" conference held at Dubai. Very informative of course if you are not were not too much familiar too MOSS, but familiar folks present there also had too much to learn(as I could guess by their questions). MOSS 2007 (expands to "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007") is basically a SharePoint site which can be customized to provide great functionality to streamline business processes. Apart from that one can build blogging sites, wikis and lot more cool stuff by using SilverLight and Ajax just incase you thought of entertainment.

Its a little OOB(Out Of the Box) blog content, but something I learnt; MOSS is integerable to Microsoft CRM and other Dynamics products. So in someway helpfull to the CRM developers. But one really needs to think - Why should you integrate CRM with SharePoint? I am also thinking!!!!!!!

On March 08

Just thought to write a summary of the previous month. I have no notes about the month previous to this, so may not have much to write. Microsoft's Heroes Happen Here Launch Event was all that I remember. Its sealed up there. Research continues on Plug-ins. Tried the new Registration tool which worked good. Still a dark area as to how can I access data retrieve and update it. Specially the custom entities don't seem to get in hand until the web service is added. Hopefully should find the solution soon as lots of forums and blogs have now started discussing them. Hope you have a good April, meanwhile I get back to my research.

Microsoft's Products Launch Event

Everyone present at the Lauch event was a {HERO} and I was glad I was one of them. Microsoft's biggest launch event. It was big because they launched 3 products in a line.

• Windows Server 2008
• SQL Server 2008
• Visual Studio 2008

There were 2 tracks simultaneously and I was interested in the Developer track, but attended the IT Managers track(I knew of it):)

Lots of functionality incorporated. Hyper-V(Virtualization) being one of the best I liked in Windows Server 2008, Intellisense in SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio having the same looks as its antecedent, but much more powerful with intellisense for javascript. Makes developers life easier.

About the Event, it was wonderful. Professional speakers from MiddleEast were there to present. We had speakers from HP and Intel to talk about their colaborative researches with Microsoft. The best part was the entertainment and loads of give away gifts. Microsoft XBox, Intel Core 2Duo processor, Click mouse(for hidden gaming freaks), Wireless keyboard to name a few. Unluckily I wasn't so lucky to get any.

I would have definately put on the event pics, provided I had a camera with me. I missed on it. Not to worry as many more such events gearing up, as I tool up for them.

Heroes Happen {Here}
Cheers