Manda QoP

A week was spent doing battle with virtual machines, setting up servers, sorting out IIS, SQL Server, AD etc etc... and when everything was in place, Dynamics CRM was installed. More time was then spent making sure that the install would make it past the verification page and at long last we had a beautifully set up instance of Dynamics CRM running on a virtual server, attached to our domain and residing on my PC. Life was good. Then someone unintentionally broke it before I'd had a chance to take a copy of the virtual machine, except that because of what was broken it wouldn't have mattered if we'd had a copy as the AD links and machine name were toasted on the domain. Pants! So next came the mission to fix things. Several options were tried and after much hair pulling eventually the domain was recognizing the server again. Once the server was back in play there was an attempt to connect to the Dynamics CRM site but lady luck was not with us that day and we received the er...

This could be interesting to watch: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33196816/ns/ technology_and_science-space/

I've created an installation check list for Microsoft Dynamics CRM based upon my experiences during installation and also including some of the notes from the planning guide provided by Microsoft. It's attached as a word document and you can download it from the right hand side of this page .

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