OT Paging the FOAK for Internet Explorer

We're currently implementing MS CRM which has an annoying habit of
opening a new window every time you open a new bit of the application.
Turning on pop-up blocker fooks the app. My question to the FOAK is, is
there a setting in IE or the registry that could force IE not to open a
new window, but just to carry on where it is?

Abuse expected...

 

ISTR there is a client for outlook as well. I can't remember if that
will solve your problem though. I think the new windows is just the
way it works. Are you using 1.2 or 3.0?

 

I don't know the answer to your question - we tend to always use the Outlook
client. I'd be interested to know, however, if you get acceptable
performance from it - and if you do, what sort of kit you're running it on.

Tim

 

Might. I see it is checked on mine (default?). Thanks for drawing
attention to it - now trying it unchecked as it pisses me off when I am
enjoying a youtube music video in the background, and forget that firing
up something else in IE from a shortcut will take it over.

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One of many that our mob have got nailed down. Fucking annoying, it
is. Other things include _not_ showing the status bar by default,
always opening pdfs in a browser window and, ooh, loads of other
annoying stuff. I've never worked out the logic by which they conclude
that we shouldn't be able to touch such stuff.

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Tim Gordon came into sight through the beans and said

We're in UAT at the moment, good fun as we're integrating with Navision
via XML scripts and Scribe. Once we go live I'll let you know about
performance.

 

Christofire came into sight through the beans and said

3.0

Testing Outlook client tomorrow. Have had major issues with email. It
seems the default install can fail, leaving the CRM server SMTP'ing to
the ether...

 

Is the issue that you wnat to run the pop-up blocker, or that you want
to run CRM in the same window?

If pop-up blocker, why not try adding your CRM site to the list of
"intranet" or trusted sites - that should allow the popups to run (I
think) whilst still blocking non-trusted sites.

IF the second... wouldn't that much up the UI as the popup shows
something differnt to the main navigation....?

 

Get reasonable(ish) performance on various systems I've tried it on...
though it's PIG slow to start up first time or if it's been unloaded
from memory. I'm also not sure it's SQL side of things is overly
optimsed as quite frequently the SQL server seems to work very hard
whilst the CRM server itself is setting twiddling it's thumbs - haven't
yet had a chance to see what it actually does on SQL ie. running a
trace etc.

Combining CRM startup with Reporting Services startup can be a long
wait IME...[1]

[1] assuming you don't later discover that part of the delay is due to
a subtle DCOM security issue. Part only though, not completely.