Crm software for Development sever
Our company is an ISV and Sytem integrator, we are new to MS CRM but very
interested in customization and integration oppurtinities given by this
software. Using MSDN license, developer are able to setup one main business
unit on their own test server. Working on this business unit, we can
customize table, forms and son on, but what happens if we have to work for
more than one customer? What is the best practice to have more than one MS
CRM enviroment (with all customer customizations, data, etc.)? Should we use
MS Virtual server, work directly on customer live server or is possible to
setup multiple CRM instances on the same test/development server?
Thank's.
I'm not sure about a best practice, but I personally use MS Virtual PC for
my development environment. I have two VPCs with Windows Server 2003 R2; one
has Active Directory and Exchange, the other has the CRM related stuff and
Visual Studio 2005. Then another Windows XP VPC for client stuff (like the
Outlook client); if I'm just working on the web client, I usually don't even
run this third VPC. (I also run Visual Studio .NET 2003 on my local
workstation.) I do this on one physical machine with 2GB RAM, but that's
really pushing it. Could spread them out on multiple machines or use lots of
RAM.