Thursday, April 15, 2010

Microsoft CRM 4.0: Deployments vs Features

On-premise

Hosted (IFD)

Online

Customization and Configuration Tools

Customization:

· Entities

· Attributes

· Forms and views

· Relationships

· Mappings

· Workflows

Yes

Yes

Yes

Configuration:

· Business units, Teams, Roles

· Administration

· Business Management

· Product Catalog

· Relationship Roles

Yes

Yes

Yes

Scripting

Form and Field event scripts (Jscript)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Client Extensions

Navigation (SiteMap)

Yes

Yes

Yes

UI Control and customization (ISV.Config)

Yes

Yes

Yes

IFRAMEs

Yes

Yes

Yes

Custom Reports

Run existing reports

Yes

Yes

Yes

Create new reports using the report wizard

Yes

Yes

Yes

Upload and run file reports (Excel worksheets, text files, and so on.)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Upload custom SRS reports using SDK methods

Yes

Yes

No

Access filtered views

Yes

Yes

No

Import/Export/Publish Customizations

Customizations

Yes

Yes

Yes

Workflows

Yes

Yes

Yes

Data Migration & Import

Data Migration

Yes

Yes

Yes

Data Import

Yes

Yes

Yes

Plug-ins

Workflows

Declarative workflows using workflow tools in Web application

Yes

Yes

Yes

Custom workflow activities (.NET Assemblies)

Yes

Partner specific

No

Web Services

Discovery Web service

Yes

Yes

Yes

CrmService Web service

Yes

Yes

Yes

MetadataService Web service

Yes

Yes

Yes

Deployment Web service

Yes

Yes

No

Supported Authentication Mechanisms

Integrated Active Directory authentication

Yes

No

No

Forms based authentication

Yes

Yes

No

Windows Live ID authentication

No

No

Yes

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