CRM 2016 and SharePoint Quick Tips

I recently had to integrate CRM 2016 On-Premise with SharePoint On-Premise, and it was not as easy as I would of liked it.

Remember to :

• If you use a SSL certificate it must be at least 2048 bit in order to work between CRM and SharePoint
• When you connect more than one Microsoft Dynamics CRM organization to a single SharePoint server, the name you give the STS must be unique for each Microsoft Dynamics CRM organization.
• Connecting to more than one Microsoft Dynamics CRM organization to a single SharePoint server is only supported with SharePoint 2016.
• Create snapshots in your VM as you go along.. I had to rollback from time to time
• You would need at least Windows Server 2012 R2 to be able to run SharePoint 2016
• You can get away with host header binding in IIS, alternative mapping in SharePoint and DNS entries in the host file
• I like to use powershell where I can and normally start of by setting the execution policy Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
• I recommend renaming a new VM before you promote it to a domain controller. You can rename the VM name using Rename-Computer -NewName CRM powershell snippit
• You can create a self signed certificate using the New-SelfSignedCertificate PowerShell command or by using SelfSSL in the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools
• You can enable .Net 3.5 feature using  Install-WindowsFeature Net-Framework-Core powershell
•  When generating a certificate, it is better to generate a wildcard certificate than a domain specific
• Follow the SharePoint CRM integration guide https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn949332.aspx

Here’s a few pointer. Good luck

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