You install Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and follow the instructions to the best of your ability only to find that when you try to access the CRM web site, it prompts you for a password three times then you get the message:
You are not authorized to view this page.
HTTP Error 401.1 – Unauthorized: Access is [...]
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Let’s say you and I are starting a business and we’re making plans to launch a great new piece of software that will change the world. Should we be thinking cloud platform? Will our software product/service be obsolete by the time we finish it if we don’t build it on Google or Microsoft or Amazon’s [...]
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Microsoft has released Update Rollup 2 for CRM 4.0. The rollup includes all of the Update Rollup 1 fixes and a ton of important new fixes. These fixes address several important issues that I know many people were facing. By my count, there are 111 new hotfixes in the rollup and 17 previously undocumented issues.
I [...]
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A couple weeks ago, I spent 5 busy Days in Reston, Virginia at the Microsoft Technology Center for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Incubation Week. This was a fantastic idea, hatched at Microsoft, to invite 5 startup companies to the MTC to spend 5 intensive days working on building a prototype and then, on the last day, [...]
Filed under: Entrepreneurship | Tagged: BizSpark, CRM, incubation, Innovation, Microsoft CRM, PaaS, Platform | 1 Comment »
This is a brief introduction on the multitenant architecture and features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. There is some confusion and mystery around hosting multi-tenant instances of MSCRM 4.0. The purpose of this post is to provide a summary of the functionality and issues. I’ll follow up by drilling down into the important issues around configuration.
Filed under: Architecture | Tagged: CRM, Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Dynamics, Multitenancy, SaaS, Systems Architecture | 18 Comments »
