What method are you guys using of building a development environment with
separate customizations and databases?

Hi Jake:

What do you mean by this? Are you talking about doing customizations using
the SDK, ways to track and manage customizations in CRM, or something else?

John.

"Jake Horn" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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I just want to put an environment out there where I have the same user
structure and I can do customization and integration testing then roll it to
the production environment after QA.


"Jake Horn" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Jake

the one thing you need to be aware of is make sure your dev environment is
in the same domain as the one where production will be. Every record in CRM
is tied to a specific user in an active directory.

I would also avoid putting in production data. Just build up your system
with form customizations etc then export to XML and import into production.

"Jake Horn" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Jake,

I've used a few different methods depending on the client environment.

1) Actually had a completely seperate dev environment (seperate
sub-domain) and used that for our testing.

2) Used Virtual PC (Connectix) to setup various ennvironments that
were loaded as needed.

3) Used the actual production environment as it was a completely new
install and we were able to cleanse the database afterwards.

I've come to really like Virtual PC. As a consultant, it allows you
to have several configurations available w/o the hardware &
infrastrucutre expense that would normally go with it. If you like to
do customized sales demos, it also gives you the ability to keep
various demos for archival.

Matt

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 22:21:51 -0600, "Jake Horn" <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:

So is there a way to set up this?

Separate web server and DB server, but using the same active directory
structure?

I would basically like a completely parallel environment to production.
Some baseline data etc. But I do not want these to crossover

"John O'Donnell" <csharpconsulting@nospam-hotmail.com-nospam> wrote in
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What are you trying to achieve?

you can create a test crm and database in your active directory then create
another in production


"Jake Horn" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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I would like to be able to take a backup of our database and set up an new
webserver and point it to a restore of that database this creating the
following architecture.

AD-CRM Server-SQL DB
|
-CRM Server-SQL DB

Both of them would point to the same AD structure, but they would be
completely separate after that.

"John O'Donnell" <csharpconsulting@nospam-hotmail.com-nospam> wrote in
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Jake

CRM is designed to have more than one web server pointing to the same
database. This allows you to for instance have different geographic regions
using a different web server.

You just have to remember to publish any cnages to both webs




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