New in CRM 4.0: using the CRM Outlook Client without a VPN connection
Administrator, CRM 4.0, Salespeople, Support April 11th, 2008
This is one of the neatest improvements to Microsoft Dynamics CRM, especially for all remote users. With the Internet Facing Deployment (IFD) mode configured on a CRM server, remote users can now access CRM within their Outlook without the requirement of a VPN connection back to the office.
Navin at the Microsoft CRM Team Blog did a great job fully explaining the configuration of the CRM Outlook Client for Internet Facing Deployment mode in CRM 4.0. The full except can be found below, or you can go directly to the article here.
Tags: CRM 4.0, IFD, Internet Facing Deployment, Outlook, VPN
Internet Facing Deployment (IFD) Tool download now available
Administrator, Downloads February 20th, 2008
Menno beat me to it at his CRM blog, but the IFD Tool was published at the below KB article link at Microsoft Support.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948779
Menno sums it up nicely:
There has been a lot of confusion around the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Internet Facing Deployment Configuration Tool, a tool which was mentioned in a document describing Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Internet facing deployments scenarios.
For the people that don’t know what Internet Facing Deployment means, it is a way to make Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 available to, for example, your home- or offline users without the requirement of needing a VPN connection.
I just bumped into a KB article describing how to use the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Internet Facing Deployment Configuration tool. The tool allows you to configures Internet Facing Deployment (IFD) for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 after you have already installed or upgraded to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. The tool is also used when you change the IFD. Another good thing, the tool is available directly from that KB article.
It is not really clear to see the download link, as you can see, you easily read over CRM4IFDTool.zip.
Tags: download, Internet Facing Deployment, KB article, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Tool
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