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Hi,
I have a company and we are about to create a vertical market solution based on CRM 2011 Online and Office 365. To this end we need the following:- A CRM 2011 online site for internal use.
- Two or three sites for development work (Dev/QA and possibly Production).
- The ability to migrate our solution from Dev -> QA -> Prod.
- For office integration we may also need Dev/QA/Prod Office365 sites that correspond to the CRM sites.
I was wondering if there is any help around this kind of situation. Any developer pack which might make it easy to manage multiple sites or whether there was any financial support (i.e. a cheaper package for developers). Also what would be the best software package (VS, MSDN etc) for our situation?
Can you give me any information at all about the best way of going about this and what support Microsoft offers?
I'm finding the information already out there rather confused and hard to find.
Regards,
MS
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 11:41 AM
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You can get Visual Studio 2010 and MSDN as a package. I would recommend either premium or ultimate. I would think thats the best way to go because you could create all of your servers you need for dev/qa stuff with the MSDN software and then you just need to buy the one separate prod licences, or CRM Online.
Jamie Miley
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Depending on the situation with your company, you may qualify for the Microsoft BizSpark program which will give you lots of software licensing benefits and support. Also, as you may be reselling Microsoft Online services as part of your offering, you may qualify for 12 months free access to Office 365/BPOS and CRM online as part of the Cloud Essentials program.
Hope this helps!
Neil.
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Bizspark would be cheaper too.
Jamie Miley
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You can get Visual Studio 2010 and MSDN as a package. I would recommend either premium or ultimate. I would think thats the best way to go because you could create all of your servers you need for dev/qa stuff with the MSDN software and then you just need to buy the one separate prod licences, or CRM Online.
Jamie Miley
http://mileyja.blogspot.com
Linked-In Profile
Follow Me on Twitter!- Proposed as answer by Jamie MileyModerator Wednesday, May 4, 2011 3:27 PM
- Marked as answer by Jamie MileyModerator Thursday, February 16, 2012 2:32 AM
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 1:18 PMModerator -
Depending on the situation with your company, you may qualify for the Microsoft BizSpark program which will give you lots of software licensing benefits and support. Also, as you may be reselling Microsoft Online services as part of your offering, you may qualify for 12 months free access to Office 365/BPOS and CRM online as part of the Cloud Essentials program.
Hope this helps!
Neil.
Neil - My CRM Blog- Proposed as answer by Jamie MileyModerator Wednesday, May 4, 2011 3:27 PM
- Marked as answer by Jamie MileyModerator Thursday, February 16, 2012 2:31 AM
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 1:47 PM -
Bizspark would be cheaper too.
Jamie Miley
http://mileyja.blogspot.com
Linked-In Profile
Follow Me on Twitter!- Proposed as answer by Jamie MileyModerator Wednesday, May 4, 2011 3:27 PM
- Marked as answer by Jamie MileyModerator Thursday, February 16, 2012 2:31 AM
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 3:27 PMModerator -
Thanks guys that's a good start!Wednesday, May 4, 2011 4:30 PM