How to brand your CRM implementation

Warning: unsupported (but minor) customizations ahead!

This is something we use in our development environments to quickly identify the client associate with the implementation, but is also a simple way to brand a production installation of Microsoft CRM:

To add a logo follow these steps:

1. Open the bar_top.aspx file in the <Microsoft CRM Web>\_root folder using a text editor
   
2. Replace the table with the class stdTable stageContextBar with the following:
   

   <table class="stdTable stageContextBar" cellspacing="0"
           cellpadding="0">
       <tr>
           <td class="bar">
               <nobr id="tdStageContextBar">
   <%HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(stageContextBarTitle, Response.Output);%>
               </nobr>
           </td>
           <td align="right">
               <img src="../_imgs/logo.png" />&nbsp;
           </td>
       </tr>
   </table>

3. Copy an image file to the <Microsoft CRM Web>\_imgs folder (in the example above the image is named logo.png).

If you wish you can specify the image dimensions in the HTML, as well as add a title for the mouse over.  That's it.  Nothing fancy, but it gets the job done ;-)