Part 2 of the “Hosting Toolkit for Microsoft Dynamics CRM” covers the free trial or buy now form and provisioning workflow. It also covers some lessons learned in automating the provisioning process using the Microsoft Dynamics CRM deployment service and CRM web service.
Filed under: ISV, Operations | Tagged: Architecture, CRM, Hosting, Infrastructure, ISV, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SaaS | 2 Comments »
2nd Microsoft Dynamics CRM Incubation Week Announced (Boston, 20th April). To submit nominations, visit Sanjay Jain’s blog.
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Microsoft released a new version of Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. Keeping up with deploying updates can be a lot of work. This is why, unless we need an update to fix a problem, we’ll wait for 3-4 weeks and let everyone else regression-test it first.
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The title of this post is a question I was asked by a software executive (Let’s call him Mike althought that isn’t his real name) recently. Mike is considering launching a new software application for a niche vertical industry and he wanted to get my feedback on the pros and cons of building their application using Microsoft [...]
Filed under: Entrepreneurship, ISV, Platform | Tagged: CRM, Force.Com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, PaaS, Platform, SaaS, Salesforce.com, Sugar CRM | 4 Comments »
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: [...]
Filed under: Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting | Tagged: CRM, iis, kerberos, spn | 18 Comments »
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, [...]
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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 | 23 Comments »
