Microsoft CRM

We recently discovered a little-known feature of the Microsoft CRM API, the ability to create entities via the web service, but with a creation date in the past.

This is very useful for our Exonet to CRM importer, and it is now a standard feature.

Info is here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc677122.aspx

One little gotcha we've noticed is that this particular field MUST be supplied to the CRM webservice in UTC, eg: