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Usually, the easiest way to tell you have spyware is because your PC is running at a reduced speed. The other way to check is to hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE and hit task manager (if you have windows service pack 2. If you have before SP2, then this should automatically bring up the task manager).

Once the task manager is open, check your running processes under the “Processes” tab. If you see a lot of strange processes running you don’t recognize, you likely are infected with spyware, ad-ware or viruses.

An example of strange processes would be a fgkosk.exe or copies of the same process running twice. Some “smart” spyware can actually disguise itself as other windows processes - you can tell this if you have copies of processes running. Don’t end task anything you’re not sure of - besides, most of these files are actually able to resume themselves after you close them as they’re in your windows registry.

You could also download a program that checks for these infected files, such as Avast, Ad-Aware, etc. Check my other article on “what to do once you have spyware” for a list of good programs to use.

The best way to get rid of spyware, ad-ware, or viruses once you have them is either to use a program made for doing exactly that. Failing that, you could format your PC. Sometimes, an infestation becomes so bad you may have troubles downloading, installing, or running a program that can help. For more information, refer to my article on “What to do once you have spyware, ad-ware, or viruses.”

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, as well as Microsoft CRM 1.2 has so-called MS Outlook client snap-ins. Also it uses MSDE installed on local machine (usually meaning laptop of the traveling MS CRM user) to store replicated MS CRM data for using it offline. It is probably true statement for each MRP, ERP or CRM system implementation, that it is not an easy process, part of the complexity and challenge comes from the need for users to get used and accommodate themselves to new user interface of the system, being implemented. In this small article we will show the ways how Microsoft decides this problem.

• Microsoft Outlook users experience. This would not be a big paradox to say that “normal” office computer user spends a lot of her/his time working in Microsoft Outlook: sending/receiving/reading/replying emails, working with calendar: appointments, to-dos, etc. And spending so much time working with MS Outlook, user can now intuitively accept new snap-ins.

• Intuitive User Interface. It is probably not winning by being overall intuitive, but considering huge number of Outlook users and their familiarity with the interface - the idea to capitalize on the user skills comes natural. Looking back to 1999, when beta versions of MS CRM were in the popularization mode among Microsoft partners, the idea of having Outlook client for MS CRM was not met with applauding, but now we are slowly realizing the envision and foundation strategy. So, the idea is - save on user training (or even nullify user training cost) - users will naturally understand how to use Microsoft Dynamics CRM Outlook client interface.

• SAP & Microsoft Office. SAP has a project with Microsoft, where Microsoft is bridging mySAP & R/3 with Microsoft Office. As Microsoft Project Green (or current name is Microsoft Dynamics NAV, AX, GP, CRM, SL) the integration with Microsoft middleware, meaning MS Office, including Sharepoint, SQL Server and other technologies nowadays attributed to MS Windows platform, other leading ERP vendors realized the game rules. Microsoft CRM is obviously ahead of competition in this direction, being among the first Microsoft applications, staking on MS Office integration.

• Competition with SAP Business One. There are analytical prognoses, pointing out to the fact that such brightly designed applications as SAP Business One could be losing the ground if the owning software vendor doesn’t invest into the background technologies. The situation is kind of funny, because Microsoft holds the majority of the market of these technologies, and SAP Business One needs to be a friend to Microsoft to integrate with MS Office platform.

• CRM Market of the Future. On the wave of CRM vendors acquisitions and consolidation we could expect asymmetric answer from Microsoft competitors, where the market might be dramatically taken over (or retaken back from Microsoft CRM successes)

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