Date & Time: Thursday, 8th December, 5:30 – 7:00 pm (Pizzas and wine at 5:30pm)

Location: Microsoft New Zealand, Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay Wellington

Topic: “Wellington Dynamics User Group Christmas Session“

Description:

After a long active year at the Wellington Dynamics User Group, it is time to sit back and relax. Our next session will have no presentations but instead it will be an opportunity to get together, mingle and share some of our Dynamics stories. Join us on December 8 for a pizza and wine session and don’t forget your Christmas hat.

Further details:

Charge: FREE!

Catering: Pizza and wine – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration: Click HERE to RSVP with your name. As a new feature, we’re asking you to add any questions in your RSVP to answer during the session. You can also ask your question on the night as well.

Contact: The lifts shut at 6:00pm, so If you are arriving late and the lift is locked, contact Rami on 0212464513.

Feel free to pass this onto your colleagues and friends who might be interested! If you have any questions, feel free to send them to dynamicsug@gmail.com.

It will be an awesome session. Looking forward to seeing you there

Speaker: Travis Chen, Senior Microsoft Developer, Intergen

Date & Time: Thursday, 10th November, 5:30 – 7:00 pm (Pizzas and drinks at 5:30pm and 45 minutes session)

Location: Microsoft New Zealand, Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay Wellington

Topic: “MS Dynamics CRM 2011 Integration with SharePoint”

Description:

Microsoft CRM 2011  provides out of box document integration with Microsoft SharePoint 2010. However there is no out of box integration to bring CRM 2011 data to SharePoint 2010. In this session,  Travis will demonstrate the integration between CRM 2011 and SharePoint 2010 using Microsoft Business Connectivity Service(BCS). With this approach users can take full advantage of using standard SharePoint functionality to display and edit CRM 2011 data. Travis will also show you different ways of creating BCS connectors.

Further details:

Charge: FREE!

Catering: Pizza and drinks – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration: Click HERE to RSVP with your name. As a new feature, we’re asking you to add any questions in your RSVP to answer during the Questions and Answers panel at the end of the main  session. You can also ask your question on the night as well.

Contact: The lifts shut at 6:00pm, so If you are arriving late and the lift is locked, contact Rami on 0212464513.

Feel free to pass this onto your colleagues and friends who might be interested! If you have any questions, feel free to send them to dynamicsug@gmail.com.

It will be an awesome session. Looking forward to seeing you there

Date & Time: Thursday, 13th October, 5:30 – 7:00 pm (Pizzas and drinks at 5:30pm and 45 minutes session)

Location: Microsoft New Zealand, Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay Wellington

Topic: “The Life and Times of a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Business Analyst”

Description:

Brett is coming fully prepared to walk us through the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 at New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE). This is a typical client and vendor scenario where there were issues encountered and lessons learnt on both ends. This is a great opportunity for you as a partner (vendor) or as a client to learn about the highs and lows of implementing CRM in your organisation or for your client.

Brett who was the Lead Business Analyst on the project will be walking us through the following:

• Personal background and preparation leading into a Microsoft Dynamics CRM implementation project.
• A short background on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 implementation at NZTE.
• Learning’s throughout the implementation and the first year of use including the maintenance and support.
• The issues encountered with NZTE’s system design in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and how Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 should address issues for NZTE in the future.  

Further details:

User Group Website: http://dynamicsug.wordpress.com

Charge: FREE!

Catering: Pizza and drinks – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration: Click HERE to RSVP with your name. A new feature is we’re asking you to add any questions in the reply to the Questions and Answers panel at the end of the main session. You can also ask on the night as well.

Contact: The lifts shut at 6:00pm, so If you are arriving late and the lift is locked, contact Rami on 0212464513.

Free feel to pass this onto your colleagues and friends who might be interested! If you have any questions, feel free to send them to dynamicsug@gmail.com.

It will be an awesome session. Looking forward to seeing you there

Date & Time: Thursday, 8th September, 5:30 – 7:00 pm (Pizzas and drinks at 5:30pm and 45 minutes session)

Location: Microsoft New Zealand, Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay Wellington

Topic: “CRM 2011 Overview part 2″

Description:

Following on from our successful CRM2011 Overview Part 1 earlier this year, we have Visha taking up the baton from Rami and showing us highlights of CRM 2011.  Visha will explore the new audit trail functionality, activity type entity creation, dialogs and as much other cool new stuff as she can cover.  Part 1 got a lot of people excited and we’ve been looking forward to part 2.  It will be fantastic!

Further details:

User Group Website: http://dynamicsug.wordpress.com

Charge: FREE!

Catering: Pizza and drinks – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration:  Click HERE to RSVP with your name.  A new feature is we’re asking you to add any questions in the reply to the Questions and Answers panel at the end of the main session.  You can also ask on the night as well.

Contact: The lifts shut at 6:00pm, so If you are arriving late and the lift is locked, contact Rami on 0212464513.

Free feel to pass this onto your colleagues and friends who might be interested! If you have any questions, feel free to send them to dynamicsug@gmail.com.

It will be another great session. Looking forward to seeing you there

Date & Time: Thursday, 14h July, 5:30 – 7:30 pm (Pizzas and drinks at 5:30pm and 45 minutes session)

Location: Microsoft New Zealand, Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay Wellington

Topic: “How to build an internet facing portal with a CRM 2011 backend”

Description:

Microsoft Dynamics CRM has come a long way over the years. As organisations use the platform to its full potential as an XRM system, they are wanting their internet facing portals to be integrated with Dynamics CRM.  In this session we will demonstrate how to build an internet facing portal with Microsoft Dynamics® CRM 2011 as a backend. The portal will be built using the MVC3 framework with the latest Razor engine along with a Silverlight Bing map and a Cloud instance of CRM 2011.

Further details:

User Group Website: http://dynamicsug.wordpress.com

Charge: FREE!

Catering: Pizza and drinks – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration:  Click HERE to RSVP with your name.  A new feature is we’re asking you to add any questions in the reply to the Questions and Answers panel at the end of the main session.  You can also ask on the night as well.

Contact: The lifts shut at 6:00pm, so If you are arriving late and the lift is locked, contact Rami on 0212464513.

Free feel to pass this onto your colleagues and friends who might be interested! If you have any questions, feel free to send them to dynamicsug@gmail.com.

It will be another great session. Looking forward to seeing you there

Cheers,

Rami on Behalf of WDUG.

Speaker: Dirk Develter, BPOS Specialist, Microsoft New Zealand

Date & Time: 13th July, 5:30 – 7:30 pm (Pizzas and drinks at 5:30pm and 45 minutes session)

Location: NZi3 (National ICT Innovation Institute), University of Canterbury, 69 Creyke Road, Christchurch

Topic: "Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and Microsoft Office 365: The Power of Cloud Productivity"

Description:

Equipping people with collaborative tools that are easy to use, easy to access, and work well together drives their productivity. Microsoft Dynamics® CRM Online and Microsoft® Office 365 pair together to unlock this power of productivity. The results are enriched customer relationships, streamlined business processes, and improved communication and collaboration across the enterprise.

Further details:

User Group Website: http://dynamicsug.wordpress.com

Charge: FREE!

Catering: Pizza and drinks – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration: Click HERE to RSVP with your name. A new feature is we’re asking you to add any questions in the reply to the Questions and Answers panel at the end of the main session. You can also ask on the night as well.

Outlook: Click HERE to save it to your calendar.

Contact: If you are arriving late and the door is locked, contact Sun on 021-352-513.

Free feel to pass this onto your colleagues and friends who might be interested!

Cheers,

Sun

Speaker: Dirk Develter, BPOS Specialist, Microsoft New Zealand

Date & Time: Thursday, 26th May, 5:30 – 7:30 pm (Pizzas and drinks at 5:30pm and 45 minutes session)

Location: Microsoft New Zealand, Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay Wellington

Topic: ”Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and Microsoft Office 365: The Power of Cloud Productivity”

Description:

Equipping people with collaborative tools that are easy to use, easy to access, and work well together drives their productivity. Microsoft Dynamics® CRM Online and Microsoft® Office 365 pair together to unlock this power of productivity. The results are enriched customer relationships, streamlined business processes, and improved communication and collaboration across the enterprise.

Further details:

User Group Website: http://dynamicsug.wordpress.com

Charge: FREE!

Catering: Pizza and drinks – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration:  Click HERE to RSVP with your name.  A new feature is we’re asking you to add any questions in the reply to the Questions and Answers panel at the end of the main session.  You can also ask on the night as well.

Contact: The lifts shut at 6:00pm, so If you are arriving late and the lift is locked, contact Visha on 0212537010.

Free feel to pass this onto your colleagues and friends who might be interested! If you have any questions, feel free to send them to dynamicsug@gmail.com.

It will be another great session. Looking forward to seeing you there

Cheers,

Visha on Behalf of WDUG

CRM 2011 – An overview Part 1

It’s a pleasure to have Rami Mounla as our next speaker. Rami is currently employed by Fujitsu as a CRM Developer.   He was the main speaker at our last session and the developers present enjoyed his technical presentation very much.  Here Rami shows off his business skills to good effect by taking us through some of the CRM 2011 highlights to whet our appetite.  We intend on presenting a Part 2 for this session in June, so stayed tuned for that too.

Please find details of the session below:

Speaker: Rami Mounla, CRM Developer, Fujitsu

Date & Time: Thursday, 14th April 2011, 5:30 – 7:00 pm (Pizzas and drinks at 5:30pm)

Location: Microsoft New Zealand, Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay Wellington

Topic: “CRM 2011 – An overview Part 1”

Description:

In this session Rami will focus on CRM 2011 once again but this time taking an overview of the new features and changes we can expect in CRM 2011.  Rami is a great speaker and has already presented this to his colleagues to get them excited about CRM2011.  Now it’s our turn.  Come and hear what CRM2011 has on offer and take a bit of the excitement back to your workmates.

Further details:

User Group Website: http://dynamicsug.wordpress.com

Charge: FREE!

Catering: Pizza and drinks – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration:  Click HERE to RSVP with your name.  A new feature is we’re asking you to add any questions in the reply to the Questions and Answers panel at the end of the main session.  You can also ask on the night as well.

Contact: The lifts shut at 6:00pm, so if you are arriving late and the lift is locked, contact Angela on 0211331623

Free feel to pass this onto your colleagues and friends who might be interested! If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact us on dynamicsug@gmail.com.

We’re changing the format for the Dynamics User Group slightly from this session onwards.  We’d like a bit more interaction with the attendees and offer the chance for people to get involved more.  We’ll have a Notices slot before the main speaker where we announce details for our next user group session, any other relevant user groups and you can also stand up if you have information to share about what is happening at your company.  This will be followed by a Tip of the Day session where you might find something useful you can take back to work immediately.  If you have a tip, we’re keen for you to volunteer to show it in this slot in one of our sessions.  A great way to start presenting if you’re slightly nervous (like I will be as I am doing the one next week).  And after the main speaker, we’ll head into a Question and Answer panel where the committee members come up and you can ask any questions – about any problems you have now, or anything on the night’s topic.  You can submit early questions by adding it to your Reply to this email.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

CRM 2011 – How to lock a record to stop concurrent users from saving simultaneously

It’s a pleasure to introduce Rami Mounla as our next speaker. Rami is currently employed by Fujitsu as a CRM Developer.

Please find details of the session below:

Speaker: Rami Mounla, CRM Developer, Fujitsu

Date & Time: Thursday, 24th March 2011, 5:30 – 7:00 pm (Pizzas and drinks at 5:30pm and 60 minutes session)

Location: Microsoft New Zealand, Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay Wellington

Topic: “Implementing optimistic concurrency locking in CRM 2011 using RESTful Web Services”

Description:

In this technical session, Rami will demonstrate how to implement an optimistic concurrency control mechanism in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 using RESTful Web Services. He will also discuss other possible techniques to accomplish similar behaviour and will highlight the differences between them. The demonstration will include coding examples and deployments using Visual Studio 2010 and the CRM SDK tools. The focus of the presentation will be around the technology and which scenarios they suit, put in the context of the concurrency control customisation.

Further details:

User Group Website: http://dynamicsug.wordpress.com

Charge: FREE!

Catering: Pizza and drinks – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration: Click HERE to RSVP with your name.

Contact: The lifts shut at 6:00pm, so if you are arriving late and the lift is locked, contact Visha on 0212537010

Free feel to pass this onto your colleagues and friends who might be interested!  If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact us on dynamicsug@gmail.com.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

It’s a pleasure to introduce Rex Wessels as our next speaker. Rex is currently employed by Intergen as a Senior Software Developer. He has vast experience in both CRM and .Net Development. He has also done various presentations around Wellington.

Please find details of the session below:

Speaker: Rex Wessels, Senior Software Developer, Intergen

Date & Time: Thursday, 7th October 2010, 5:30 – 7:00 pm (Pizzas and drinks at 5:30pm and 60 minutes session)

Location: Microsoft New Zealand, Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay Wellington

Topic: “Extending CRM Search Capability”

Description:

Rex will be looking at ways to improve and refine the way of finding and searching for DATA within Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

In this presentation, he will be delving into the code to show you some of the possibilities of extending CRM’s search capability using plugins and other techniques.

Further details:

User Group Website: http://dynamicsug.wordpress.com

Charge: FREE!

Catering: Pizza and drinks – Courtesy of MSNZ.

Registration: Click HERE to RSVP with your name.

Outlook: Click HERE to save this event to your outlook calendar.

Contact: The lifts shut at 6:00pm, so if you are arriving late and the lift is locked, contact Visha on 0212537010

Free feel to pass this onto your colleagues and friends who might be interested!  If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact us on this email address.

Looking forward to seeing you there!