In most enterprise Dynamics CRM project, the customer would like to install CRM using the SQL server DNS alias instead of the server name. One of the reasons for doing it is because they need to support their Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy.  CRM does not allow you to use the alias because the Environment...

The customer wants to setup DNS for SQL Server because it’s part of their Disaster Recover (DR) plan.  I learned something from the folks in our team and Grant G from the PFE team on how to do it. Posting the step here just in case that I need to do it next time. In order to setup a DNS alias for...

I have been asked to figure out the minimum permissions required to install CRM 2011.  I dig around and I didn’t realize the product group already put the information in the Implementation Guide (IG).  I found the article below from the CRM 2011 IG, just in case you are looking for it, here...

CRM 2011 RC now allows us to specify service accounts during the setup process.  You can specify the service account for the Application Service, Deployment Web Service, Sandbox Service and Asynchronous Service to run as.  In a single server environment, you can just use NETWORK SERVICES for...