Designing a new network with MS CRM in mind

[nitrokid]

Hi all,

Our organisation consists of 2 companies, and I have been told to design an infrastructure so that both companies, and any future companies, can all use the 1 crm system. This means I need to get both companies off SBS and onto Server 2003. I was looking at the following setup:

Company hosting the CRM:

Windows Server 2003 Standard
Exchange 2003/2007 Standard
Sql Server 2005 Standard
MS CRM 3 Professional

Other company not hosting the CRM, but needing access to the one above:

Windows Server 2003 Standard
Exchange 2003/2007 Standard


Would this suffice? We need to be able to have CRM to allow users using different email domains and different Exchange servers to all be able to use the one CRM. Any suggestions or criticisms are much welcome.

Thanks in advance

 

[jodonnell]

You need to hold off at this point as the next release of CRM supports multi tenancy. This means you can have multiple CRM systems all on one set of hardware. Each tenant sees their own unique firms and security. In your case it could mean that each new company added could have their own CRM system but using your existing CMR hardware.

John O'Donnell
Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
Blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde