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Here is everything you need to know about videos: http://diveintohtml5.info/video.html Considerations In general, these are the considerations when displaying/ rendering videos over the web: where is the video stored/ hosted? – On premise or in the cloud? Cloud-hosting can be a good option for load distribution if the videos are huge. what is the streaming/ downloading protocol? – The trend these days appears to be to stream videos using HTTP rather than specialised (and often expensive) protocols. who is the target audience and what browser/ platform are they using to view these videos? what browser? – Chrome, IE, Firefox, Opera? which version(s)? – still required to support IE6? what operating systems/ environment? – do we have Unix/ Mac users? need to support desktop/ tablet/ mobile? – some or all of these? The challenge for the 3rd consideration is to be able to accommodate everyone (from IE6 on a desktop to the iPad safari browser). To do this, a number of “t...

I recently was involved in getting the above to work in our environment. The steps follows: Ensure that the SSL certificates are correctly signed Ensure that the SSL certificate chain is present and valid Install the certificates in the “Current User” account for validation Execute mmc.exe, add “Certificates” snap-in with “My user account” Install the certificate within “Personal” store Verify by using Internet Explorer to retrieve the WSDL from the remote web service If the certificate and chain are correct, Internet Explorer will validate them and report so with “Certificate is OK” Install the certificates (and the entire chain) in the “Local Computer” account Execute mmc.exe, add “Certificates” snap-in with “Computer account” Install the certificate within “Personal” store Note the thumbprint of the certificate Configure the WCF web.config to make use of “Client Certificates” by finding the certificate within the “LocalMachine” using the thumbprint (remove the spac...

I came across MS CRM while searching for a solution for leads management. In the process of trying to appreciate the main concepts and relationships as well as a basic gap analysis against our requirements, I created a set of UML class diagrams to document my understanding. The following are the main concepts (or entities, according to CRM’s nomenclature): Main CRM entities Sales Force entities Sales Person entities Activity entities Teaming entities Campaign entities Main CRM entities Sales Force entities Sales Person entities Activity entities Teaming entities Campaign entities Web References Some useful links for read-up: http://crmdynamo.com/2008/06/crm-40-concepts-what-are-leads-contacts-and-opportunities/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crm/archive/2007/08/27/leads-accounts-contacts-and-opportunities.aspx