As many of you know, I’m the Program Manager in charge of the Outlook Client. One of the most common asks that I see is a tool to “push out” offline data filters to individual clients. The lack of a tool was pretty painful for our administrators out there.

In CRM 3.0, you could modify a user’s offline data filters centrally, but it pretty much required you to hack the database. Possible, but entirely unsupported (naturally!).

In CRM 4.0 we still haven’t shipped a tool, but we’ve opened up the SDK sufficiently enough that you can accomplish this programatically. Clint Warriner of our support team has just published a tool he wrote to administer offline data filters, which is installed via MSI.

Updated: Clint tells me it’s not actually an MSI install, but a command-line app that does the work.

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