From the Microsoft Dynamics CRM blogs: Active Directory sync; xRM wedding planner; Subject bulk operations; Tagging

How to Synchronize CRM Online with your Active Directory: The folks over at the Microsoft Dynamics Team Blog says one of the exciting benefits to the fact that CRM Online is part of the Office 365 ecosystem, is that you have the ability to link your company's Active Directory system to CRM.

Doing this will enable you to manage all your users in one place, sign in to CRM Online with your existing credentials (known as single sign-on, or SSO), and even control access to multiple CRM organizations by using Active Directory.

In the blog post, the team explains the benefits of setting up Active Directory federation with CRM Online, explain how to setup SSO and Active Directory synchronization, and answers some of the most common related questions.

"If you have a large organization that uses Active Directory to manage your users and groups, setting up Active Directory synchronization will allow you to manage all of your CRM Online users in a central location, avoiding the need to manage multiple user accounts and passwords," according to the blog post.

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Planning a Wedding? Here's a Novel Use for CRM: At the PowerObjects blog, JoeCRM says as an implementer of Dynamics CRM, he considers it his solemn duty to replace tracking in spreadsheets with tracking in CRM.

So when he needed to track a lot of people with some extra data assigned to them, instead of putting it all in a spreadsheet like everyone else, I decided to ...