Programming Microsoft Dynamics® CRM 4.0

Chapter 9. Deployment

So far you’ve learned a lot about how to create programming customizations to Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Now we want to share some thoughts and ideas about deploying your custom solutions from one environment to another. Once you have created your solution and tested it within your development environment, you next need to package and deploy the solution to environments such as production.

This chapter discusses common deployment steps and then focuses on the various options and considerations of installing and testing Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions between environments. We’ll cover the following topics in this chapter:

• Common deployment steps

• Deploying Microsoft Dynamics CRM components

• Offline application deployment

• Testing ...