We recently got a request from a client that wanted to prevent modifications of Contacts from the Outlook Client back to CRM.
We went back and forth trying to implement this with security roles and other options, but none of the solutions were perfect.
When you are creating a plugin that must perform certain actions on the Delete message, you might at times try to make changes to the associated records of the records that is being deleted. When you call the Delete message using either the Pre-Operation or Post-Operation events, the associations to the underlying related records are deleted before the actual records is deleted.
Many times we are required to have a process or task that will automatically execute at a predefined interval (such as every first of the month), but Microsoft Dynamics CRM does not have a built-in engine to have such a process. An example of this would be updating the Month-To-Date totals of a particular entity.
