Hi,

I have a few questions about the external connector licence. I understand
that this allows you to connecto to CRM without a user necessarily being in
AD.

1. When accessing the CRM Web Service, you need to impersonate a user
through network credentials [e.g. myService.Credentials = new
NetworkCredential("PrivUserName","PrivUserPassword ","PrivUserDomain")]. How
is this possible with an external user?

2. I have a website with an enquiry form. Details entered in this form will
be pushed through as Leads. From what I understand, "external users" cannot
own records so how is this achieved without impersonation?

2a. Using this same example, if I personate a user with a valid CAL (default
System Administrator account for example) and I have all leads entered
through the website using this account, is this within the scope of the
"External Connector" licence? Can I just "legally" use my existing CAL for
this purpose?

Any help is appreciated and please correct me if my assumptions are wrong.

Thanks for your help

Hi L3,

1. You don't have to impersonate account explicitly if you don't want to. If
you run your external web site under NETWORK SERVICE account (same as CRM)
then your code will be able to access CRM using default credentials.

2. If you run your code under NETWORK SERVICE account, records created by
this account will show up as owned by SYSTEM. You can assign newly created
records to CRM users in code if you want to.

2a Yep, I believe it's OK. I know of couple installations where people
purchased an extra user license just to have a "web site identity" user. In
the scope of things cost of one extra license is negligible compared to
External Connector cost.

Hope this helps
--
George Doubinski
CRM Certified Professional - Developer


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