Microsoft Dynamics CRM in Australia

Here is the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 content that will be presented at Tech.Ed 2008 in Sydney next week (September 2 – 5). I know some of you keen to understand about quality learning opportunities for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 in Australia.

Visit the Tech.Ed web site for more information: http://www.microsoft.com.au/teched/

DEV380 Creating Composite Applications with Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Wednesday, 3-9-2008 17:30 - 18:45, Parkside G07 

Speaker(s): Guy Riddle

Level: 300 - Advanced

Session Type: Breakout Session

Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a powerful customer relationship management solution built from the ground up using Web services and the Microsoft .NET platform. Not only does Microsoft Dynamics CRM provide a seamless user experience based in Microsoft Office, but it can be integrated with Microsoft Office SharePoint, .NET Framework-based applications, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow and other technologies to provide comprehensive user solutions. This session aims to improve your understanding of how Microsoft S=Dynamics CRM is designed as a configurable and extensible business application platform that can utilise these technologies.

DEV385 Building SaaS and On-Premise Line-Of–Business Applications with Microsoft Dynamics Application Development Platform

Friday, 5-9-2008 8:30 - 9:45, Parkside G07 

Speaker(s): Guy Riddle

Level: 300 - Advanced

Session Type: Breakout Session

A key element of Microsoft Dynamics CRM is its ability to function as a flexible, robust platform for building applications that can help meet the unique needs of many different organisations. This session drills down into application design areas, such as User Interface Management, Business Logic Design and Application Data Modelling. Provides insight into the possible benefits of using a platform like Microsoft Dynamics CRM to accelerate your application development effort in delivering business applications either on-premise or SaaS.

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New to Microsoft Dynamics? Need to ramp up quickly? Have certification exams to pass?
Attend the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Certification Training for Applications(#8913), Customization (#8912), or Installation & Deployment (#8911) and you will receive the in-depth technical training you need to prepare for customer scenarios and exam preparation.

Advanced Training provides computer training solutions and have some Dynamics CRM 4.0 courses coming up in Melbourne which are detailed below. Contact Advanced Training for training at other cities.

MELBOURNE

Visit Advanced Training's web site to see their Schedule

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Access these videos on Microsoft Channel 9 to hear the ‘Dynamics Duo’, Microsoft Dynamics Evangelists Ben Riga and Girish Raja, discuss topics of interest to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM development community.

Topics in this series include the following:

• Dynamics CRM and Customisation
• Dynamics CRM and SharePoint Server
• Dynamics CRM and Office Business Applications
• Dynamics CRM and WPF
• Dynamics CRM and Silverlight

These videos are aimed at developers and technical decision makers to demonstrate the power of the "xRM application platform" and how Microsoft technology can be integrated and leveraged to add great new functionality.

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The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 User’s Guide includes all of the basic end-user information available in Help, including documentation on sales, marketing, and customer service features, as well as step-by-step instructions on working with Advanced Find and workflow in an easily printable format.

Partners, customers and experts have told Microsoft that you want to provide customised documents for your end users. To make it easy to customise the document, a version is available in Microsoft Office Word 2007 (.docx) format along with the entire document in PDF format.

Download them here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0DB4D487-1BAA-4619-9BC5-074D73C3997D&displaylang=en

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The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Developer Ramp Up Kit is based on lessons learnt during eighteen months of instructor-led training by the Developer and Platform Evangelist Group at Microsoft as part of the CRM 4.0 early adopter initiatives.

This kit is for .NET based developers who want to ramp up and build on top of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 uses familiar components such as Web Service endpoints, Windows Workflow Foundation, SQL Server Reporting Services, and more; making it a general purpose platform for any line-of-business applications.

The kit drills into development details and explains how .NET-based developers can interact with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform. It includes videos, presentations, hands-on labs, and a Virtual PC environment for practicing.

Familiarity with the .NET Framework, Microsoft Visual C#, Jscript, Microsoft SQL Server and general Web development is recommended.

See the table of content and the various videos and presentations online on MSDN:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc720132.aspx 

Cheers, Ross