Author: Keith Cockerham

How to Set a Partner of Record in Office 365

Go to http://portal.microsoftonline.com and log in with your Office 365 details.   From the dashboard, choose Licences     Click on your subscription. You may see more than one subscription in the list.   Click add under Partner Information   Enter Partner ID 4112828 and click Check ID   Partner should be shown as Optimal […]

Microsoft CRM 2013 Rollup 1 Published

Last week, Microsoft published Rollup 1 for Microsoft CRM 2013. Starting with CRM 2013, The rollup number is included within the build number. Rollup 1 is published as 6.0.0001.0061 Update Rollup 1 contains stability and memory-consumption improvements as well as bug fixes. We maintain a list of all rollups on our Microsoft CRM 2013 Resources […]

Office 365 Admin App

Earlier this week Microsoft released a new iPhone, iPad and iPod touch application for IT administrators to check the service status of Office 365. The Office 365 Admin mobile app empowers IT service administrators to connect to their organizations’ Office 365 service status on the go. The Office 365 Admin mobile app enables administrators to […]

Chris and Rod’s Charity Cycle Ride

This week; our group sales director, Chris Oldfield is cycling 400km across the Western Cape of South Africa with his best friend Rod Dyer to raise money for REGAIN – The UK Trust for Sports Tetraplegics. Over the past year Chris and Rod have raised an amazing £7,700 for the charity through various sponsored events […]

Microsoft CRM 2013 Whats new

What’s changed in CRM 2013 Here are a couple of handy guides from Microsoft including What’s changed in CRM 2013 and the Microsoft CRM 2013 Release Preview Guide To summarise the changes; Updated Navigation The first thing you’ll notice is that the navigation has been completely redesigned. The navigation pane has been removed and replaced […]

Free eBook – CRM for Dummies

Microsoft are offering “CRM for Dummies” as a free eBook to help customers and prospects get the most out of Microsoft Dynamics CRM The book allows you to discover information about functionalities that will improve the way you handle customer contacts, leads, opportunities and case resolution. These out-of-the-box functionalities can make your sales and marketing processes more effective […]

Microsoft Surface Review

Recently, I bought a Microsoft Surface. At home, it’s replaced my netbook for surfing and sending emails.  Surfing the web feels very natural on the Surface’s touch screen interface.  I also opted for the touch keyboard.  This means you can type on-screen when required but still pull out the touch keyboard for more fiddly text editing and […]

Microsoft Partner Briefing Manchester

On Monday this week, I attended the Microsoft Partner Briefing in Manchester.  Key members of Microsoft UK outlined the roadmap and new technology coming over the next few months. Things to look out for include the next release of Office 365 and Microsoft Office 2013. No official release date was confirmed for Office 2013 but you can download the technical […]