CRM 2015 online this Fall 2015 with Ping Federation and Mobile capabilities.

Moving on to CRM 2015 online this fall 2015 with Ping Federation and Mobile capabilities.

Moved from CRM 2011 to CRM 2013 May 2015

We are Onpremise CRM 2013 now Plans to go CRM Online soon.....

In Convergence Atlanta 2015 - March 16th to 20th 2015

Enjoyed the Keynote speak by Sathya Nadella in Convergence conference March 16 2015.

Register for Convergence 2015 in Atlanta

Register for Convergence 2015 in Atlanta

http://www.microsoft.com/en/convergence/atlanta15/#fbid=fkiSo22thk-

DR (Diaster Recovery) Environment set up for Production CRM 2011 System

Cloning the production servers and changing the names of the CRM servers is not going to be the best method for creating a DR environment for  CRM deployment as the CRM servers cannot be cloned under different names. 

There are two options, one is to create a completely separate CRM environment at which point databases are restore and CRM can be reinstalled to if needed.  The other is a standby environment where CRM is already installed to the DR app servers and you’d only need to move SQL server.  This blog post discusses both opotions: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/6404.dynamics-crm-4-0-disaster-recovery.aspx

Our option was to  Restore Database onto a stand-by environment  Here the DR CRM app servers are ready to go, to use it the SQL databases would need to be restored and the Database Connection would need to be updated.

The Restore Databases and Join servers to existing organization option, this creates an entirely separate DR CRM Deployment.  When the time comes to switch to DR, the databases would need to be restore, edited, and CRM installed to existing databases.