New Microsoft CRM Outlook client for Office 2007 and Vista

Posted by Mike Snyder on December 21, 2006  |  Comments (2)

Great news! The Microsoft CRM product team released the new version of the Microsoft CRM Client for Outlook...one day ahead of their promised delivery date even. Of course we've been waiting for this since we got our hands on Vista and Office 2007 a while ago so we installed it immediately on a clean build of Windows Vista.

After you complete the installation, here's what the revised user interface looks like:

We're very excited about this new version of the Outlook client and now we need to get it up and running in our demo environments ASAP so that our customers can see how tightly integrated Microsoft CRM and Outlook are. There are lots of other new benefits in this release such as using SQL Server Express Edition and support for group policy deployments but most users will just notice the new buttons in the interface.

Here are some screenshots of the installation, it appears identical to us as the previous installation process:

Just a reminder, when you open the Microsoft CRM Client for Outlook it performs a check to see if it is the "synching client". Since I have the Microsoft CRM Client for Outlook installed on multiple machines, it prompted me with this warning message.