Maximizer / SQL Management Studios Installation Failure with Visual Studio SP1 Missing Error

Maximizer fails to install when you select SQL Management Studios or when you do a manual install of SQL Express, you get the error: “Another version of Microsoft Visual studio 2008 has been detected that must be updated to sp1”, but Visual Studio is not installed.

Issue:

Chances are you have a Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 and what you’re getting is a false positive message from the Toshiba tools installed with the Toshiba Windows 7 installation CD.

Solution:
Open “Regedit” and update the following keys’ value from “0″ to “1″. Please make sure that the SP and SPIndex values are 1 and that the SPName is SP1.

For 32-bit, check the following registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DevDiv\VC\Servicing\9.0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DevDiv\VC\Servicing\9.0\RED\1033

For 64-bit, check the following registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\DevDiv\VS\Servicing\9.0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\DevDiv\VS\Servicing\9.0\VSR\1033

Before you change the key, please back up ‘Registry’ first.
More information, Please reference: Back up the registry http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Back-up-the-registry

Cheers,

Shannon Porter (The Maximizer Guy)

Maximizer Automated to Disk Backup SOHO solution

This SOHO (Small Office Home Office) backup recommendation for MaxBackup, is based on the size of the databases selected for backup being 4GBs or less and the size of the directories selected for backup being 80GBs or less. This will give you a great SOHO backup solution with 5 years of backup retention for under $500 dollars.

1. Purchase two (2 terabyte) external hard drives (Selling for about a $100 dollars at the creation date of this document) to become your onsite and offsite backup drives.

2. Purchase MaxBackup (Sells for $199 dollars per Maximizer server license and downloadable from here) which you can schedule to backup all your databases and company directory shares automatically.

3. Configure your new backup drives as simple drive that show up as the same drive letter when you swap one for the other.

4. Install MaxBackup and select the “Standard” option for the “Backup Configuration” with “Backup Notifications” enabled. Then set your new terabyte external backup drives as the backup location.

5. Configure MaxBackup’s “Cleanup Settings” to the following:

• • Reduce to 1 Weekly backup older than “1 Month”
  • Reduce to 1 Monthly backup older than “3 Month”
  • Reduce to 1 Quarterly backup older than “1 Year”
  • Remove all backup older than “5 Years”

6. Then set yourself a schedule to swap your backup drives on Friday, from onsite to offsite. This will give you the greatest backup history retention, while still maintaining optimum backup drive space for future data growth.

These options, over the span of 5 years, will give you 12 backups (Monday Wednesday and Friday) for last month’s backups; 8 backups retained (Friday’s) in the next 2 oldest months; 9 backups retained (last Friday of the month) for the remaining year of backups; and 12 backups (last Friday of the quarter) until MaxBackup deletes them from your backup drives. The total number of backups at any given time will be no more than 41, which will be shared between your offsite and your onsite backup drives.

In laymen terms, if you have a Maximizer database of about 4GBs (which for a small company is large) then your total database backup size will not grow beyond about 164GBs or 82GBs per backup drive. This leaves 1900GBs for assigning directory backups. If the network shares you are backing up are not larger than 80GBs then your total directory backup size will not grow beyond about 3280GBs or 1640GBs per backup drive. This will utilize about 3500GBs of your combined backup drive space, which leaves another 500GBs of drive capacity free for your business growth to continue.

Please Note: If you select different “Backup Configuration” or different “Cleanup Settings” options, this will change how much space your backups will consume. If your backup space requirements are larger then you can adjust your retention settings or purchase larger backup drives.

Cheers,

Shannon Porter (The Maximizer Guy)

MaxNotify for Maximizer

MaxNotify, a new Maximizer add-on from IslandCRM. It is a simple Maximizer add-on which monitors additions, modifications, and Deletions for the Maximizer address book records and emails these changes to your email address. Who would install MaxNotify?

One side of the coin is a company with a department that does not have Maximizer installed (Accounting for example). This Maximizerless department needs to know when new client information is added and changed for their record tracking and invoicing. This way invoices still get mail to the right location.

On the other side of the coin is a business owner who doesn’t complete trust his staff with his client records. This business owner has to give full access to his employees or they will not have the ability to do their jobs. MaxNotify will inform this business owner when records are changed and if the business owner needs to undue these changes he has the information to do so.

MaxNotify Email Format

MaxNotify will send an email for every Maximizer address book entry that has been created, modify, or deleted.

New Record:

MaxNotify will send an email to the configured email address with the following format.

From: MaxNotify for Maximizer [mailto:sporter@islandcrm.com]
Sent: June-18-11 12:31 PM
To: sporter@islandcrm.com
Subject: Address Book (Escona Tutorial) – New – MaxNotify, Test (Individual)

Record Added
Type: Individual
Mr/Ms: Mr
First Name: Test
Middle Name: IslandCRM
Last Name: MaxNotify
Company: IslandCRM R&D
Position: Test Position
Salutation: Test Salution
Department: Test Department
Division: Test Division
Address 1: 1073 Colville Rd
Address 2: Suite 1
City: Victoria
State / Province: BC
Country: Canada
Zip / Postal Code: V9A 4P9
OFF1: 1-866-960-9831 ext: 703
Fax: 1-866-960-9831 ext: fax
Cell: 250-661-6510 ext: cell
OFF2: 778-433-9873 ext: home office
Email: sporter@islandcrm.com
Email 2: shannon@islandcrm.com
Email 3: service@islandcrm.com
Website: www.islandcrm.com

Action performed by User: MASTER
On Date: 18/06/2011 12:27:03 PM
Address Book: Escona Tutorial

Modified Record:

MaxNotify will send an email to the configured email address with the following format.

From: MaxNotify for Maximizer [mailto:sporter@islandcrm.com]
Sent: June-18-11 1:03 PM
To: sporter@islandcrm.com
Subject: Address Book (Escona Tutorial) – Modify – MaxNotify, Test (Individual)

Old Record
Type: Individual
Mr/Ms: Mr
First Name: Test
Middle Name: IslandCRM
Last Name: MaxNotify
Company: IslandCRM R&D
Position: Test Position
Salutation: Test Salution
Department: Test Department
Division: Test Division
Address 1: 1073 Colville Rd
Address 2: Suite 1
City: Victoria
State / Province: BC
Country: Canada
Zip / Postal Code: V9A 4P9
OFF1: 1-866-960-9831 ext: 703
Fax: 1-866-960-9831 ext: fax
Cell: 250-661-6510 ext: cell
OFF2: 778-433-9873 ext: home office
Email: sporter@islandcrm.com
Email 2: shannon@islandcrm.com
Email 3: service@islandcrm.com
Website: www.islandcrm.com

New Record
Type: Individual
Mr/Ms: Mr
First Name: Test
Middle Name: IslandCRM
Last Name: MaxNotify
Company: IslandCRM R&D
Position: Test Position
Salutation: Test Salution
Department: Test Department
Division: Test Division
Address 1: 1073 Colville Rd
Address 2:
City: Victoria
State / Province: BC
Country: Canada
Zip / Postal Code: V9A 4P9
OFF1: 1-866-960-9831 ext: 703
Fax: 1-866-960-9831 ext: fax
Cell: 250-661-6510 ext: cell
OFF2: 778-433-9873 ext: home office
Email: sporter@islandcrm.com
Email 2: shannon@islandcrm.com
Email 3: service@islandcrm.com
Website: www.islandcrm.com

Action performed by User: MASTER
On Date: 18/06/2011 1:02:40 PM
Address Book: Escona Tutorial

Deleted Record:

MaxNotify will send an email to the configured email address with the following format.

From: MaxNotify for Maximizer [mailto:sporter@islandcrm.com]
Sent: June-18-11 1:07 PM
To: sporter@islandcrm.com
Subject: Address Book (Escona Tutorial) – Delete – MaxNotify, Test (Individual)

Record Deleted
Type: Individual
Mr/Ms: Mr
First Name: Test
Middle Name: IslandCRM
Last Name: MaxNotify
Company: IslandCRM R&D
Position: Test Position
Salutation: Test Salution
Department: Test Department
Division: Test Division
Address 1: 1073 Colville Rd
Address 2:
City: Victoria
State / Province: BC
Country: Canada
Zip / Postal Code: V9A 4P9
OFF1: 1-866-960-9831 ext: 703
Fax: 1-866-960-9831 ext: fax
Cell: 250-661-6510 ext: cell
OFF2: 778-433-9873 ext: home office
Email: sporter@islandcrm.com
Email 2: shannon@islandcrm.com
Email 3: service@islandcrm.com
Website: www.islandcrm.com

Action performed by User: MASTER
On Date: 18/06/2011 1:06:30 PM
Address Book: Escona Tutorial

MaxNotify Supported Versions & Editions

MaxNotify will work with Maximizer versions 10, 10.5 and 11 and will work with Maximizer editions Entrepreneur, Team, Group, Professional, and Enterprise. MaxNotify will install on Windows 98 (All Editions), Windows XP (All Editions), Windows 2000 (All Editions), Windows 2003 (All Editions), Windows Vista (All Editions), and Windows 7 (All Editions).

Cheers,

Shannon Porter (The Maximizer Guy)

P.S. (MergeCRM the iPhone app for Maximizer is in the iTunes store. Just search “MergeCRM” from your “App Store” icon on the home screen of your iPhone, iPad, iPod, or iTouch mobile apple device)

Maximizer Colouring rules

A very useful feature in Maximizer V11 is the Colouring Rule. This feature allows you to link User-Defined Fields and/or other information to Address Book entries, Opportunities, Customer Service Cases and Hotlists. Depending on the value the text will change colour.

An example would be the category of client or even the product they buy from you. To access this feature:

• Select ADDRESS BOOK from the left navigation bar and SETUP on the V11 top menu bar and click on the Colouring Rule Option.
• Select ADD and type in the name and description of the rule in the space provided.
• Under the ‘full access’ drop-down menu, select who should have access to the rule.
• SELECT the User-Defined Fields that should apply for this rule.
• Click on ADD and select a VALUE and the colour of the text and/or background you would like to appear for the rule and click on ADD.

Cheers,

Shannon Porter (The Maximizer Guy)

P.S. (MergeCRM the iPhone app for Maximizer is in the iTunes store. Just search “MergeCRM” from your “App Store” icon on the home screen of your iPhone, iPad, iPod, or iTouch mobile apple device)

MaxBackup – Delayed Schedule

MaxBackup’s release schedule was deleyed, because we had a customer come to us and ask us to create MaxNotify. MaxNotify has now been completed and is available for download with a two week trial from http://www.islandcrm.com/maxnotify.html, so please check it out. Our MaxBackup Beta should be available for download by the end of July 2011.

Thank you,

Shannon Porter (The Maximizer Guy)

New IslandCRM Beta: MaxBackup

If you have every struggled with;

• Setting up an automatic backup (It just runs and you don’t have to worry that you forget to doing a Quick Backup!)
• Managing your backup archive & backup retention (Cleaning up unneeded backups and reclaiming important disk space!)
• Manging your offsite backup (Getting your backup out of the building in case of meteorite strikes!)
• You simply don’t fully understand the importance of a good Maximizer backup (Until you need it that is!)

Then IslandCRM has a simple, but useful Maximizer add-on  for you! We are planning to release MaxBackup beta at the beginning of May 2011. We are looking for Beta testers, so if you have Maximizer, meet one of the above conditions and you are interested, please send an email request to betas@islandcrm.com. We will only be accepting so many beta testers and it’s first come, first served. You DON’T have to be a Maximizer business partner.

Current feature sets for the MaxBackup beta and then the MaxBackup Version 1.0 release (currently planned for the end of October 2011) are as follows.

Features for Version 0.1 “Beta” Release (May 2011):

1. Create a Backup service which does a weekly backup (BAK files) and gives you an option to check and uncheck every day of the week. (Hard coded to backup all local SQL and Maximizer system databases: master, model, msdb, tempdb and MaConfig)
2. Option to pick which Maximizer SQL database you want to backup. The service will show you which SQL databases you have on the system and you have an option to check and uncheck them. (You will see all SQL databases on the server not just Maximizer Databases)
3. Option to specific a “Root” backup location, defaults to “C:/Backups/Maximizer/”. When the backup does run it will creates a folder for that days backup inside the root backup folder based on the short date format, 2011-04-07.
4. Retention history setting. This can be turned on or off with a check mark. If it is on then it will give you retention options to delete the Maximizer dated folders that fall into the backup retention rules.

a) Can check on or off: Older than 1 week:

Remove days of the week (Check on or off: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

b) Can check on or off: Older than 1 month:

Can check on or off: Remove days of the week (Check on or off: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

Can check on or off: Remove weeks of the month (Check on or off: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week4, Week 5)

c) Can check on or off: Older than 3 months:

Can check on or off: Remove days of the week (Check on or off: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

Can check on or off: Remove weeks of the month (Check on or off: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week4, Week 5)

Can check on or off: Remove months of the year (Check on or off: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December)

d) Can check on or off: Older that 6 months:

Can check on or off: Remove days of the week (Check on or off: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

Can check on or off: Remove weeks of the month (Check on or off: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week4, Week 5)

Can check on or off: Remove months of the year (Check on or off: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December)

e) Can check on or off: Older than 12 months:

Can check on or off: Remove days of the week (Check on or off: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

Can check on or off: Remove weeks of the month (Check on or off: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week4, Week 5)

Can check on or off: Remove months of the year (Check on or off: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December)

Additional Features for Version 1.0 Release (November 2011):

1. Archive settings: There will be an options to set the following options: Alternate Backup location with options for retention just like the normal backup.
2. Export Backup: It will have an option to copy one, several or all selected backups and copy them to a USB drive.
3. Import Backup: It will have an option to retrieve a Backup from a USB drive and put it in the backup location on the server.
4. Restore:  Connect to a backup and allow you to do a search and restore of selected records based on:
   1. a. The entire record
   2. b. The records documents
   3. c. The records notes
   4. d. The records User Defined fields
   5. e. Over the write the record if it exists or restore the records based on the last modified date

Thank you,

Shannon Porter (The Maximizer Guy)