xRM events in July

Join Bryan Nielson (Director of xRM) and Barry Givens (Senior Product Manager) as they showcase how the complementary capabilities of xRM and SharePoint combine to create a powerful end to end business application platform. This meeting is on July 7^th, 9am pst. http://www.xrmvirtual.com/events/xrm-sharepoint-platform

Guy Riddle presents on July 23^rd-Understand how you can use Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a business application platform to rapidly build and deploy a wide range of custom business applications.  This meeting is at a special time, 1pm pst.   http://www.xrmvirtual.com/events/CRM_to_XRM

 

New Enteprise Benchmark – 50K Concurrent Users on Dynamics CRM

For those of you that have not see this earlier this week Microsoft Dynamics CRM now scales to 50K concurrent users! This new benchmark is strong evidence that Dynamics CRM is the leading CRM solution for the Enterprise and ready for the toughest workloads. I think this benchmark is clear evidence that the scalability of a single instance of Dynamics CRM is now larger than real-world customer requirements. Microsoft working with Intel engineers were able to greatly expand their enterprise benchmark – more than doubling previous benchmarks and achieve scale of 50,000 concurrent users. In addition, the architecture employed during this test cost less than $35K – or less than $0.70 per user, and incorporated new energy-efficient processors that generate up to 30% less power within an IT or datacenter environment. By comparison, an October 2008 performance test for Oracle Siebel Release 8.0 scaled to 14,000 users and 1.6 million daily transactions leveraging Sun hardware that cost more than $150,000. Compared to this benchmark, the Microsoft Dynamics CRM scalability test drove 3.5 times more users and almost 2 times more transactions – while reducing hardware costs nearly 80 percent

Microsoft Press Release

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/jun09/06-03IntelMSBenchmarkPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases

Dynamics CRM Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/dynamicscrmonline/archive/2009/06/03/new-enterprise-benchmark-50k-concurrent-users-on-microsoft-dynamics-crm.aspx Redmond Magazine article http://redmondmag.com/articles/2009/06/03/intel-xeon-adds-metal-to-microsoft-dynamics-crm.aspx

Softpedia article

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dynamics-CRM-4-0-Can-Deal-with-Over-50-000-Concurrent-Users-113294.shtml

 

Modern CRM Programming: Using ADO.NET Data Services, .Net RIA Services, LINQ, and CrmMetal

Join Shan McArthur as he presents :

Modern CRM Programming: Using ADO.NET Data Services, .Net RIA Services, LINQ, and CrmMetal

Shan will demonstrate using modern development techniques with the CRM SDK. Included will be a quick coverage of ADO.NET Data Services, and using CRM Entity Mapping with code-generation from CrmMetal. Shan will then demonstrate how to use the CRM Entity Mapping classes in .Net application projects including ASP.NET websites. He will also demonstrate how to wire these up with ADO.NET Data Services and .Net RIA Services to facilitate easy AJAX and Silverlight development.

For those unable to attend, the meeting will be recorded and available for viewing after the meeting.

When: Tuesday, Jun 2, 2009 9:00 AM (PST)
Scheduled to Occur: Once
Duration: 1:00

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Take Microsoft Dynamics CRM to the web using IFD

Configuring Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 for Internet Facing Deployment using the IFD configuration tool is now included as a topic in the latest release of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 implementation guide.

Steps to setup and configure CRM for IFD:

1) Before running the setup, edit the setup configuration file located in the installation folder and add the following configuration under <CRMSetup><Server>:

<ifdsettings enabled=”true”>

<internalnetworkaddress>[enter the sub net range]</internalnetworkaddress>

<rootdomainscheme>[http / https]</rootdomainscheme>

<sdkrootdomain>[specify the domain for applications that will use methods described in the SDK]</sdkrootdomain>

<webapplicationrootdomain>[specify the domain that will be used for Microsoft Dynamics CRM web application and Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook]</webapplicationrootdomain>

</ifdsettings>

2) For an already installed instance of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Server, run the IFD configuration tool and follow the wizard.

Please note that before running the IFD configuration tool you must have created the DNS records and made sure that the server is accessible from Internet.

You can disable IFD anytime by running the IFD configuration tool and setting the Authentication Strategy to On Premise.

Download the latest implementation guide from here

www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1ceb5e01-de9f-48c0-8ce2-51633ebf4714&DisplayLang=en

Download the IFD configuration tool from here:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/e/f/4ef5f568-7320-4861-a947-47baf0966537/crm40ifdtool.zip

 

CRMUG Workshop – CRM for xRM Developers

Menno te Koppele is hosting the workshop. Please register here:

http://crmug.com/custom/pwDynamicCommunities/EventSignup.aspx?EventID=859

Upcoming times:

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 @ 10:00 AM

 

XRMVirtual meeting invite Self-Service Sites: Proactive and Effective May 28

Self-Service Sites: Proactive and Effective

Join Girish Raja and Ben Riga as they present- More than ever applications built for the web connect customers (or partners, employees, or citizens) directly to systems running behind the firewall. Whether for informational or transactional solutions like customer portals or loyalty program sites, it is imperative that information gathered is acted upon as soon as possible while keeping costs way down. In this session we’ll explore how building on the XRM platform and taking advantage of Windows Azure, Live Services, and SQL Data Services provide a great platform for building proactive self-service web sites that effectively manage the end-user experience.

When: Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:00 AM (PST)

Duration: 1:00

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My second article features in DevX.com

My Second article on Using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 as a Development Platform has featured in DevX.com. Here is the link:

http://www.devx.com/enterprise/Article/41836

The article talks about how Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides a robust development platform for server side developers.