The back-end functionality for querying data in Microsoft Dynamics CRM has been greatly improved in the last few years. One of the improvements is the possibility to define conditions applying to entities other than the immediate parent entity, which is the key to composing "not-in" queries (see MSDN documentation). In addition, there have been improvements in aggregation functionality.
However, the front-end view designer and Advanced Find have not kept pace with the back-end progress, and it basically has the same functionality as in the first release of CRM 2011.
In this article, I will explain and demonstrate an easy way to create a view query emulating the