Blogging and Word 2007

I’m using Office 2007 and thought I’d try out the blog posting from Word. It supports Blogger.com and will even upload photo’s to your web server, this all sounds good to me. Unfortunately I can’t find anywhere to type tags in for the post, so I’m going to stick with the Blogger web interface for now as this includes uploading of photo’s and rich text editor. Spell checking is done automatically by FireFox 2, it shows typo's in all textbox’s by default. So there's no real need for me to use Word although I would of liked to if only I could of added tags to the posts.

CRM3 problem with Import Customization in Internet Explorer 7.0

I’ve not been able to load customisation into the new self-contained virtual CRM3 environment, all the latest patches were applied and the CRM Rollup.

When importing cusomisations the MSCRM shows this dialog box and keeps showing it no matter how long you wait for it.

After nearly losing my sanity after a day of no joy I’ve finally found this article, it’s caused by using a combination of CRM3 and IE7 .

http://ayazahmad.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/problem-with-import-customization-in-internet-explorer-70/

You can log a call to get the hot fix if you really need to use IE7 with CRM3. In my virtual Windows 2003 environment I un-installed IE7 which resolved the issue.

Blogger.com and publishing to my own site

Well, this is the first post to test that I've configured the blogger account to publish to my server. your seeing this so at least it's working.

I got to say what a good job the dev team for blogger.com have done. There are many features I like but my absolute fav is that every time you post, you can configure the software to automatically publish pages to your site for you via ftp, but the real icing on the cake is that they allow you to modify an HTML template that's used when they are being generated.

This means that you can use the tech from blogger.com and integrate blogs it into any website with any custom look and fell you like.