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Great idea. Once I get better versed with CRM 3.0, I am going to use this quite a bit I believe.

http://blogs.msdn.com/mikemill/archive/2006/03/24/560334.aspx

Is it possible to use SQL 2005 Express with the CRM 3.0 'fat' client instead of MSDE? I'm tempted to try it but I'm also worried that it might break my install. I haven't seen much mention of it but I've been such a fan of SQL 2005 over SQL 2000 that I'd really love to give it a shot.

I can't seem to find much on the internet about people trying it.

Please drop me a line if you figure it out.

It looks like you can run the server portion of it on SQL 2005 according to this link:
http://thenorwichgroup.blogs.com/mscrm/2006/03/sql_2005_and_ms.html#more

No mention of the client.

Integrate Microsoft.Net MapPoint and CRM with this add-on:
http://www.cwrmobility.com/Products/MSCRMMapPointIntegration/tabid/56/Default.aspx

Spell checker add-on:
http://www.cwrmobility.com/Products/DynamicsCRM30SpellChecker/tabid/71/Default.aspx

Image add-on:
http://www.cwrmobility.com/Products/DynamicsCRM30ImageAddIn/tabid/67/Default.aspx

I haven't tried them out yet but most likely will be shortly once we complete our CRM roll out.

I haven't had to do this yet, but I am sure I will have to at some point. We're working on a test deployment of CRM right now, and from what I can see, it is going to be pretty nice.

http://blogs.msdn.com/midatlanticcrm/archive/2006/03/08/Changing_Port_Numbers_in_Microsoft_CRM.aspx