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Microsoft CRM Customization – if you give up – overview for consultant  by: Andrew Karasev Microsoft CRM is designed to be customizable. However this is new system and you could be not comfortable to do it on your own. In this small article we’ll try to reassure you if you can do it or point to the right direction if you would like to subcontract it to professionals. Let’s begin Microsoft CRM is CRM answer from Microsoft Business Solutions to traditional CRM vendors, such as Siebel, Onyx. Microsoft CRM customization techniques are very diversified and based on the whole spectrum of recent Microsoft technologies. The main terms you should know are: Microsoft CRM SDK 1.2 and Visual Studio.Net 2003. And of course you should be familiar with all the legacy internet technologies, such as HTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript and be good C#/VB/Net developer. If you are developer who is asked: how do we customize Microsoft CRM – read this and you will have the clues on where to look further. 1. Microsoft CRM SDK – this is software development kit with C# and partly VB.net examples – it is supported by Microsoft Business Solutions technical support. It is all web services based calls, if you are C# .NET developer – you are excellently positioned to do this type of customizations. This is the preferred customization scenarios and this should be easily upgradeable customization. 2. Legacy SQL Data integration. This is also easy and safe. If you have SQL database, sitting on the same or linked SQL Server – you can create ASPX .Net application and simply integrate it into CRM. You can place it on the navigation bar or menu in isv.config – please refer to MS CRM SDK 3. Legacy ASP integration – this is somewhat more sophisticated. You have to deploy HTTP handler to be a middle party between CRM which is .Net based and ASP which is legacy IIS. The trick is – you have to have INI file with security settings to penetrate into MS CRM with proper credentials, calling web service. 4. Microsoft Exchange Programming. Microsoft CRM has Exchange connector – which moves CRM incoming email to MS if it has GUID in its subject. You can alter this logic (for instance - move email to CRM if it doesn’t have GUID but it is from the sender who is contact or account in MS CRM). Refer to MS Exchange SDK onsyncsave event handling. Then simply apply some MS CRM SDK programming 5. Direct SQL touch – in #4 above I described you the scenario with MS Exchange handlers – this would be ideal world if MS CRM SDK does the job. But – in real world this is not always true – you have to do direct flags correction in CRM database (like making Activity closed, moving email attachments/octet streams, etc). This is not supported by MBS technical support – but you can rescue to this technique if you have to make job done. 6. MS CRM Customization tool – you can feel free to use this – this is rather end-user tool and we don’t describe it here – read the manual. We’ve described above the options to use when this tool doesn’t do the job Happy customizing! if you want us to do the job - give us a call 1-630-961-5918 or 1-866-528-0577! help@albaspectrum.com About The Author Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies – USA nationwide Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Great Plains customization company, serving Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Denver, Houston, Phoenix, New York, Atlanta, Miami, Canada, UK, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Germany ( http://www.albaspectrum.com ), he is Dexterity, SQL, C#.Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. akarasev@albaspectrum.com This article was posted on January 13, 2005 Read More Articles from the "Computers and Internet" Category: Microsoft Great Plains PM: Payables Management by Vincent Ong Great Plains Accounting Migration to Microsoft Great Plains - overview for IT Specialist by Andrew Karasev How To Get Listed With Google In Less Than 24 Hours by David Hennebery Why Should You Switch To VoIP? by Keith Gilbert The Top 10 Reasons You Need A Computer Point of Sale System For Your Business by Jerry D. Wilson Top (4) Reasons Why You Should Celebrate Cyber-Awareness Month-EVERY MONTH by Invisus Security Solutions (originator) and Independent Security Advocate Clifford Wall (submitter) Amazing Corel Draw Brushes by Blur Loterina How to ‘Download’ Your Old Computer to the Highest Bidder by Donald Lee 5 Tips For New Internet Surfers by Franck Silvestre Finding Places To Access The Internet For Free by Ron King << Back to "Computers And Internet" Index

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