Is quite some development so brace yourself, but:
You can create an on-premise Web Service which communicates to Office 365 via the SharePoint Client Object Model (this is actually not to difficult to do other than the claims based authentication) to implement the SharePoint methods you need to create a
Document Library, create a Folder or upload a document.
Use Scribe or another similar technology to connect to CRM Online to the Web Service in a fashion similar to the following steps:
(1) Use the Account entity in CRM as the Data Source
(2) Use the Web Service Create Folder method as the first Target Step
(3) Create a CRM Document Library record in CRM as a second Target Step that associates the Account record to the new folder/document library in SharePoint.
Using the limited iFrame integration that CRM 2011 does allow for hosted SharePoint, you then have a list of Accounts linked to relevant SharePoint locations for an initial integration. This lacks some of the better features of full integration such
as the List Component but may act as a starter point.
However, as Jamie mentions, I believe Microsoft are intending to allow full integration between CRM 2011 and Office 365 in Q4 2011, so the best advice might be to wait for this release and avoid the development time of implementing this.
Kind Regards, Paul |
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