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We are in the middle of our Dynamics 365 Online Trial and we have a fairly unique situation for how we'd like to implement Dynamics 365 Sales Online. We have three separate businesses with three separate domains (hosted under one tenant). For example- some of us have three emails addresses (one for each company). Ideally, we can monitor and convert leads across all three companies within one Dynamics instance and when we compose an email it will compose a message from the correct account. Can anyone help me out or point me in the direction of resources to set this up?

I've created the business units already and we can manually change the send from each time within the outlook dynamics app.

Thanks!

-Alex

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    RE: Multiple Business Units & Domains

    Alex,

    I have a similar situation that you described...2 separate business entities, separate domains so I have 2 email accounts to track with one email client etc.

    How did you set up your tracking and Outlook mail..is everything working smoothly?

    I would welcome any help/tips.

    Many thanks, David

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    RE: Multiple Business Units & Domains

    Thanks, Wayne. You've been very helpful.

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    Wayne Walton 13,728 on at
    RE: Multiple Business Units & Domains

    So yes, you could use teams to give access to other business units in CRM, but that won't do anything for their email.  But that can scope out the records for people who only need one or two of the business units.  

    Just make sure that you make the Accounts owned by those Teams so they end up in the right BU.

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    RE: Multiple Business Units & Domains

    Thanks, Wayne/Melvin. You've been a huge help. If you don't mind I have one final question, you mentioned that the system works best when one user belongs to one business unit (and that makes sense). Can teams be used as a way for one user to have read/write access across other business units in both Sales & Financials? Or does that create more chaos within Dynamics? We have a team of employees that work on all three units/businesses and are trying to avoid logging in/out multiple times a day and avoid managing multiple email accounts and the confusion that can result in sending from the incorrect email account to customers.

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    Wayne Walton 13,728 on at
    RE: Multiple Business Units & Domains

    Depends on what you mean by "send from account".  CRM doesn't actually send mail itself, so the only "account" it's aware of is your user record.  Or Queue records if you take Melvin's suggestion (which is a decent one).

    The Exchange Server Sync then will link your user record to an Exchange mailbox (only one, mind you) and when you send an email through CRM, it really is sending it to Exchange and saying "will you send this for me?"  

    Having written all that out, I think the Queue suggestion is likely the only valid way to go.  It's not pretty, and will be a pain to maintain, but there's really no way for CRM to treat a single user as if they're from different domains when it comes to sending mail.

    If I recall, MS's official stance on that is that you should stand up a separate instance of CRM for each domain/business and then sync your common  data (like accounts) through the Common Data Service, or a 3rd party tool like Scribe.  Note, this is almost exclusively an issue because of one user managing all those domains at the same time.  CRM can totally handle multiple domains/businesses as long as each user only belongs to one business unit.

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    Thanks for the link. One more question Wayne- is it possible within Dynamics to change the send from account (similarly to changing it in outlook?) without writing a code?

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    RE: Multiple Business Units & Domains

    Two things you can explore:

    1.You need to setup two additional Queues (CRM term - think of that as mailbox) for each user, so that plus the user email itself, three mailboxes are created in the system to track the emails.

    >How to track, you can figure out

    2.You need to give the permission for the send on behalf. So that user can select the email to be sent from which email address (either send from Queue or User)

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    Wayne Walton 13,728 on at
    RE: Multiple Business Units & Domains

    I don't know of anything specifically like what you're asking, but I would start with the Developer Center.  It will have links to the SDK and some walkthroughs.  msdn.microsoft.com/.../crmdevelopercenter.aspx

    I imagine you're going to have to create some custom email fields on the user entity and then some kind of configuration entity where you can match up an email domain to a company domain or something of the sort.

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    RE: Multiple Business Units & Domains

    Thanks for the quick response, Wayne. That makes sense to me. Can you direct me to any resources about setting up a custom code like this within Dynamics 365 Sales Online?

  • Wayne Walton Profile Picture
    Wayne Walton 13,728 on at
    RE: Multiple Business Units & Domains

    There is no automatic way to do that.  You'd have to set up custom code that checks each Lead's source business and then set the email from there.  

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