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    As the title. Thanks in advance.
    Monday, January 9, 2012 9:42 AM

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    Hi Ian,

    IFD stands for Internet facing deployment, and basically enables your environment with forms based authentication. You configure the IP's associated with your internal network and any external IP accessing your environment will have to use forms instead of trying the Active directory for authentication. However IFD doesn't necessarily mean you use it for external scenarios you still can use it internally

    Port Forwarding as the name suggest's there is no extra features in CRM, you simply forward the port to the CRM server, which in a way you also open your internal system to the outside world.

    for more information on setting up IFD on the DMZ:

    http://quantusdynamics.blogspot.com/2011/12/crm-40-ifd-dmz-secure-deployment.html

     

    Hope this helps

    Visit my blog for CRM material, improving performance, kerberos, IFD, development tips, etc. :) http://quantusdynamics.blogspot.com

    • Edited by nrodriEditor Monday, January 9, 2012 12:33 PM
    • Proposed as answer by nrodriEditor Monday, January 9, 2012 9:18 PM
    • Marked as answer by Chee Yang, LIM Tuesday, July 17, 2012 11:17 AM
    Monday, January 9, 2012 12:33 PM
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    Hi,

    Port forwarding:
    New connections from the outside to a certain port or port range go to a designated LAN machine. The ports are determined by the kind of server you want to run, (e.g. 80 for a web server) and the IP is the private LAN IP of your web server.

    IFD:

    You get full detail about IFD from here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9jZIxDTsBw

    Thanks & Regards, MS CRM Consultant, V.Surya.
    Monday, January 9, 2012 6:10 PM
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    Hi Ian,

    IFD stands for Internet facing deployment, and basically enables your environment with forms based authentication. You configure the IP's associated with your internal network and any external IP accessing your environment will have to use forms instead of trying the Active directory for authentication. However IFD doesn't necessarily mean you use it for external scenarios you still can use it internally

    Port Forwarding as the name suggest's there is no extra features in CRM, you simply forward the port to the CRM server, which in a way you also open your internal system to the outside world.

    for more information on setting up IFD on the DMZ:

    http://quantusdynamics.blogspot.com/2011/12/crm-40-ifd-dmz-secure-deployment.html

     

    Hope this helps

    Visit my blog for CRM material, improving performance, kerberos, IFD, development tips, etc. :) http://quantusdynamics.blogspot.com

    • Edited by nrodriEditor Monday, January 9, 2012 12:33 PM
    • Proposed as answer by nrodriEditor Monday, January 9, 2012 9:18 PM
    • Marked as answer by Chee Yang, LIM Tuesday, July 17, 2012 11:17 AM
    Monday, January 9, 2012 12:33 PM
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    Hi,

    Port forwarding:
    New connections from the outside to a certain port or port range go to a designated LAN machine. The ports are determined by the kind of server you want to run, (e.g. 80 for a web server) and the IP is the private LAN IP of your web server.

    IFD:

    You get full detail about IFD from here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9jZIxDTsBw

    Thanks & Regards, MS CRM Consultant, V.Surya.
    Monday, January 9, 2012 6:10 PM
    Answerer