Comments on: A Primer on Multitenancy for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

By: Anne Stanton

Anne Stanton — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:05:07 +0000

Sweet – Nice Share, excellent idea!

By: Dan Blake

Dan Blake — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:44:37 +0000

fazween,
SSL is not required so there is no certificate for the site. The blog is open to the public and need not be secured. Try using http://thecrmarchitect.wordpress.com.

By: fazween

fazween — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:36:32 +0000

There is a problem with this website’s security certificate. pleace repiare my problem………….

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By: Dan Blake

Dan Blake — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:13:10 +0000

Ronald,
I don’t have enough information to respond to your question. Please list the following:

SSL Certificate Common Name:
IFD Domain Scheme:
IFD App Root Domain:
Example of a URL you are using to access an organization:

You can substitute phony info if you are concerned with revealing the above info (e.g. *.foo.bar.com, https, foo.bar.com, https://crm.foo.bar.com). Just make sure the info is technically equivalent.

-Dan

By: Ronald

Ronald — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:58:05 +0000

Hi Dan,

Excellent Article. What I was missing is the AsyncRootDomain parameter. I guess it’s the something2.com that should be specified here, but not sure. I have some errors in the eventviewer about Async Server. One of them is an ASP error about SSL names. Certkificate seems to be invalid. This can’t be true, so I guess a call is made with the wrong URL. No idea how to proceed from here.

Any ideas ?

Thanks !

BR,

Ronald

By: Yvan

Yvan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:37:37 +0000

Thanks Dan,

How about logins? I am getting lost within the deployment guide for hosting.

If i create a user for a customer lets say ACME\user1 under an ou in my ad, the user will have a username like myad\user1, right? Or it will end up being ACME\user1 in myad?

What domain will issue and authenticate the user?

By: Dan Blake

Dan Blake — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:19:57 +0000

The smallest hosting solution would be one server but I wouldn’t recommend it.
With HyperV or VMWare virtualization, it makes sense to build out a scalable infrastructure from the start. You could split out the roles to several virtual servers (app server, platform, sql, domain, srs) and use only two or three physical servers. However, if you are going to host for customers, you should have a high level of fault tolerance built into your architecture. At a minimum, you would need to have redundancy in the virtual servers (at least two of each role), networking components, Internet connectivity, firewall, SAN, etc.
You have many options for email as alternatives to Exchange, albeit with less functionality. You can set up any compatible POP/SMTP server to provide email for your clients. However, my experience is that most customers already have an email solution in place. You can configure the email router to integrate with their server.

By: Yvan

Yvan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:58:33 +0000

Dan,

It seem that all the documentation regarding the planning and deployment of a hosting environment for CRM, is looking at a organization that do not have anything existing in their orginal infrastructure.

Also, they do not start small 5-6 servers to start with???

What would be the smallest solution (like for a startup)?

What is the smallest solution to host “My first CRM client”?

What about emailing? What if I do not want to support an internal exchange server for my company and a hosted exchange server that would relay emails to my clients?