Well, when discussing impersonation we are not very far away from global internet authentication. I found this great presentation on how identification probably will work on the Internet in the future. It deals with webservices and CRM:s (Salesforce.com acctually). Above being a very interesting presentation concerning facts, the presentation technique is quite unique – check it out!
Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant
Humandata AB
www.humandata.se
I was working with an aspx-page that was called by an isv.config.xml-button today and had problems with getting the impersonation to work. It was quite obvious when I solved it. If you have similar problems, I have a few tips:
Usually the external webpages are run from another website that CRM. Make sure this website has anonymous access shut off and Integrated Windows Authentication turned on. Also make sure that the tag <identity impersonate=”true”/> is in the web.config-file of the root of the website.
To avoid getting login-dialogs, make sure the site with the external pages are in trusted sites or Local Intranet Sites in IE.
If you have followed these tips, impersonation should work. The SDK mentions that users have to be in the PrivUserGroup but when I tried it still worked. Maybe that is needed in some special cases. If I manage to understand when, I will write about it.
Happy impersonating!
Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant
Humandata AB
www.humandata.se
This is directed to CRM-consultants in Sweden.
If you don’t already know of it, check out the product One By One from PAR Adressregistret AB. It enables you to get updated data directly from PAR into CRM including a service that will make sure you do not have any doubles. Click the heading of the post to go to their site!
Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant
Humandata AB
www.humandata.se
I attended a local CRM conference yesterday and I met a very interesting company with a very cool product! The company is Enecto and their product ProspectFinder helps you monitor who visits you websites and their behaivior on you site, like what pages they are looking at and how long.
It works by looking up IP-adresses in a huge database containing most companys of more than 8 emplyees in northern Europe. Then, by using information from DnB and filtering on the more interesting visitors, automated lead creaton can be made directly into you CRM-system.
At the moment there is no connector to MS CRM but according to the guy I talked to, Petter Andersson, it was in the progress of being made.
The lengths of where you can go with this product are far from exploited. The more obvious of creating leads from interesting visitors and adapting content to different companytypes, are discussed in more depth on their site. Look around, and you might get a phone call 🙂
Click the heading of this posting to go to their site!
Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant
Humandata AB
www.humandata.se
I have spoken to several people in the CRM community and according to what I have heard, although not directly from Microsoft, is that they will release an integration engine for integration between MS CRM 3 and Dynamics Nav. However, it is uncertain if it will only concern the new version of Dynamics Nav, soon to be released or will work also for the current version of Nav. This is good news since the connector I have worked with from the Danish company Tectura has left many question unanswered and lots to wish for.
I still havn’t had time to test the BizTalk connector and I havn’t talked to anyone who has. If you have, I would very much like to know your feelings about it.
Gustaf Westerlund
CRM and SharePoint Consultant
Humandata AB
www.humandata.se
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