Multi-tenancy in CRM 4

Windows Vista News — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:00:14 GMT

There is an interesting post over at blogs.msdn.com

re: Multi-tenancy in CRM 4

Jebb — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:13:40 GMT

May I know what version of CRM 4.0 is capable of Multi tenancy? When we try to create new organization in our CRM 4.0, it gives the following message:

"To create a new organization, the wizard must remove the current organization company name. After the wizard completes you will no longer have access to this organization. Are you sure you want to continue?"

re: Multi-tenancy in CRM 4

Jagan Peri — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:56:08 GMT

From the deployment SDK documentation:

"Note Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Workgroup Edition and Professional Edition do not include support for multiple customer organizations."

The deployment SDK is available for download at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2008/01/22/crm-4-0-deployment-sdk-is-now-available.aspx )

re: Multi-tenancy in CRM 4

Federico — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:49:46 GMT

Jagan,

How do you know at runtime which organization is being used at the moment (in the current context)? Parsing the url won't work always because you might be in a virt dir with a custom page. Is there anyway to query the user's principal or identity?

Thanks,

Federico.

re: Multi-tenancy in CRM 4

Benjamin — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:03:56 GMT

My question about this new capability of CRM 4, is if you will lose our not the possibility of a general view of the conpanies. For exemple it´s possible with multy-tenancy to have a overall view of all company´s oportunities ?

Thanks

Overview of Several Organization in CRM 4

Benjamin — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:53:33 GMT

Hello

Using multi-tenancy capability it´s possible to create several organization in the same server. In a second stage it´s possible to integrate the several organization so that the top management has a complete picture of the group of company´s ?

Thanks

Benjamin

re: Multi-tenancy in CRM 4/Overview of Several Organization in CRM 4

Jagan Peri — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:44:15 GMT

Hi Benjamin,

You bring up a good question. CRM 4.0 doesnt offer any capabilities to integrate/present data across multiple organizations...

Depending on your requirements, you might want to consider using Business Units within an organization to model your usage rather than use multiple organizations...

thanks

Jagan

re: Multi-tenancy in CRM 4/Is there anyway to query the user's principal or identity?

Jagan Peri — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:57:04 GMT

Hi Federico,

You might want to look at the following msdn article for more info:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc151050.aspx

In some cases, we do parse the URLs to map the incoming request to an org. For the case you are talking about, your code needs to create an auth token before making SDK calls as shown in the above MSDN article.

thanks

Jagan

re: Multi-tenancy in CRM 4

Benjamin — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:19:23 GMT

Hi Jagam

I find this news about CRM 4 in yahoo website:

"Microsoft added multitenant capabilities with version 4.0 of the product, which means a single instance of the software on a server can serve multiple customers when the suite is running as a hosted service. The company also added more support for global companies, giving customers a single view for managing accounts worldwide and adding support for multiple currencies."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080131/tc_pcworld/142056

However i have been told that you can you can setup the users for multiple organization access view.

Can you help me to analise this information?

re: Multi-tenancy in CRM 4

prabhu — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:46:01 GMT

when i try to create a new organization in mscrm 4.0 through deployment manager, after completing all the wizards finally i am getting an error "crmexception:configure organization utility cannot run on a domain controller machine"

Programmatically creating a new organization in CRM4

Cameron McFie — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:31:00 GMT

For those nerds like me that are interested in developing your own Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 MPS Provider

re: Multi-tenancy in CRM 4

Toiletduck — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:02:47 GMT

The CRM 4 deployment document mention that the following command can be executed to "Preventing CRM Users from Adding (Disabling the Create User Feature)"

Microsoft.Crm.DeploymentConfigTool OrgFeatureSettings -Organization:AdventureWorks -CreateUser:false

Is it possible to update the organization feature settings to disable the user creation process via the API?

re: Multi-tenancy in CRM 4

Nelson — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:34:50 GMT

I wrote an article on importing and deleting organizations on my blog at:

http://eccosystem.blogspot.com/2008/04/install-and-delete-ms-crm-organization.html

re: crmService for multitenancy

Gangadhar — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:48:19 GMT

I have created ,two organization and made some customization in second organization's(added custom attributes for account).

Lets say Org1 while intalation,Org2 added later .Now working with Org2.

In a custom website for the second organization,i am using the CRMService reference,but iam unable to work with the custom attributes of account.

How to go about this?

Create Multi-Tenancy Organizations in CRM 4.0

Rexiology@MSDN — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:45:18 GMT

After some basic checking of CRM 4.0 system, it’s now time to import some sample data and test further.

Create Multi-Tenancy Organizations in CRM 4.0

Rexiology::Work — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:46:17 GMT

crosspost from http://blogs.msdn.com/rextang After some basic checking of CRM 4.0 system, it’s now time

re: Multi-tenancy in CRM 4

Robert — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:53:46 GMT

Hey Great post thanks. Question....The logo at the top left of the screen in CRM. Can it be customized to be the logo of each unique Organization?

re: Multi-tenancy in CRM 4

Dan Blake — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:01:19 GMT

Robert,

You can replace the logo on the header of the CRM screen by replacing two image files on the CRM application server. The files are under the _imgs folder and are named mast_back.gif and hasthead.jpg. This is not a supported customization and may violate the license agreement (consult your attorney...). These files may get replaced with the Microsoft version if you do a CRM upgrade or apply a hotfix.

For anyone interested, I posted an article "A Primer on Multitenancy for Microsoft Dynamics CRM" at http://thecrmarchitect.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/a-primer-on-multi-tenanancy-for-microsoft-dynamics-crm/

re: Multi-tenancy in CRM 4

Dan Blake — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:21:15 GMT

Oops...make that "masthead.jpg" in the comment above.

re: Multi-tenancy in CRM 4

Piyush — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:24:44 GMT

I have created ,two organization and made some customization in second organization's(added custom attributes for account).

Lets say Org1 while intalation,Org2 added later .Now working with Org2.

In a custom website for the second organization,i am using the CRMService reference,but iam unable to work with the custom attributes of account.

How to go about this?

can someone please reply on above point.

re: Multi-tenancy in CRM 4

David Martinez Fresneda — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:36:06 GMT

Hi piyush , did you publish changes in crm, and actualize web references in visual studio project?.

re: Multi-tenancy in CRM 4

Glen — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:51:41 GMT

Is it possible to set different logo jpg's for different organizations in a multi-org config?

re: Multi-tenancy in CRM 4

soujanno — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:40:28 GMT

Great Post. Thanks