Sharing Data across Microsoft Dynamics CRM Deployments

The CRM E² team is pleased to announce the release of two complementary documents, a white paper and a build guide, related to Sharing Data across Microsoft Dynamics CRM Deployments.

• The white paper provides an overview of the levels of integration available for sharing data across multiple Dynamics CRM organizations, together with details about the techniques that are used for integration at the Application and Data levels, which include Web Services, Web Services-based solutions, Filtered Views, and SQL Server Replication.
• The build guide explains how to configure the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 April 2009 VPC base image to enable data sharing between a Publisher organization and multiple Subscriber organizations. The configuration demonstrates how to use Microsoft Dynamics CRM to maintain referential integrity between multiple organizations by leveraging Microsoft SQL Server 2008 transactional replication.

These documents are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=584531fe-796e-4ffe-8881-65c1f94207ae

The CRM E² team especially recognizes the efforts of Brian Bakke, Grant Geiszler, Roger Gilchrist, Shawn Dieken, and Jim Steger (Sonoma Partners), as well as the broader CRM Product Development team, for contributing to and reviewing this paper to help ensure its completeness and accuracy. If you have any comments about the document or suggestions about how we might improve it, please forward them to the CRM Enterprise Content Feedback alias (entfeed@microsoft.com).

Thanks,

Jim Toland