Both the Dynamics 365 Online Portal and Adxstudio Portal have the ability to allow visitors to register to give them access to authenticated areas of your site. Despite what authentication method you use (Forms based, Windows Live ID, Active Directory, Google, etc) the portal will create a corresponding CRM contact record for each visitor that… Continue reading How to Give 6 million Contacts Access to your Portal
Category: Portals
Deploying an Adxstudio Portal to Azure… without Visual Studio
One of the great things about the new Dynamics 365 Online Portals is that you can quickly deploy a portal within the Office 365 Administrative interface. If you are using the the legacy Adxstudio Portals, you will manually need to deploy the portal to IIS or to Azure in order for it to be accessible… Continue reading Deploying an Adxstudio Portal to Azure… without Visual Studio
Resetting Adxstudio Portal Passwords on Azure
Despite the fact that Microsoft will now only be selling Adxstudio Portals v7.0 on an exception basis (see here), there are still hundreds of portal implementations that still being deployed and supported. A common method of portal deployment is to deploy the master portal directly to Azure. As anyone who has deployed an Adxstudio Portal… Continue reading Resetting Adxstudio Portal Passwords on Azure
Happy New Year!
It has been a few weeks since I posted here. Had a good Christmas break and was focused on the Canadian Powerlifting Central Championships. I did “OK”, I missed my first 2 squat attempts on depth so I had to settle for 190kg (got it on 3rd attempt with 2/3 lights). On my second attempt… Continue reading Happy New Year!
The Future of Adxstudio Portals v7 and other portal related updates
The Future of Adxstudio Portals v7 This past week any Microsoft Partner involved in the legacy Adxstudio Partner program received a letter from Microsoft stating the end of the Adxstudio Partner program. Now that Adxstudio has been part of Microsoft for a little over a year this is expected and part of the integration process.… Continue reading The Future of Adxstudio Portals v7 and other portal related updates
Deploying an Adxstudio Portal to IIS
When working on a Portal project, eventually you will want it to be available to your stakeholders (whether it be the outside world or your staff). This blog posting will discuss a fairly easy method to deploy the Adxstudio v7 “Legacy” portal to Internet Information Services (IIS). These particular steps assume that you do not… Continue reading Deploying an Adxstudio Portal to IIS
Portals Web Page Structure
This is another posting about how Adxstudio/365 Online portals are structured. Today we will look at the concept of portal web pages and how they and their related components are structured in a Portal application. Hopefully after reading this post, you will have a better understanding on how web pages work within the Portal and… Continue reading Portals Web Page Structure
CRM Online Portal Components
Over the next few weeks I will be breaking out my CRMUG session on Portals into a set of blog articles. I hope these postings will help anyone who has been tasked with setting up and configuring a Portal some good information to get started. Today’s blog is a bit more “theoretical” but I think… Continue reading CRM Online Portal Components
CRM Debug Info from your Browser
Sometimes while debugging or diagnosing issues, you need to get some more info about your Dynamics CRM system. A little known feature (that I discovered today) is the Microsoft CRM Debug page. This will list things like the CRM server, CRM database name, versions, organization guids, etc. The page is accessed simply by navigating to… Continue reading CRM Debug Info from your Browser
CRMUG Summit
This week I will be travelling to Tampa, Florida to participate in the annual CRMUG Summit. This will be my first time attending this event and I am really looking forward to it. If you are involved with using, developing or administering Dynamics CRM, and you are not doing anything else this week and happen to be… Continue reading CRMUG Summit
The ReadyXRM Blog by Nick Doelman 