FW: Publish CRM with SSL and reports-services URL

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-----Original Message-----
From: RichardW [mailto:helpdesk@ortec.nl]
Posted At: Friday, June 29, 2007 8:56 AM
Posted To: microsoft.public.crm
Conversation: Publish CRM with SSL and reports-services URL
Subject: Publish CRM with SSL and reports-services URL

We have published our CRM webserver externally using SSL (without ISA I
might add). I just cloned the default CRM website in IIS, and adapted
that
for SSL.
So we now have 2 CRM websites, one for internal use and 1 for external
use.
Obviously they are 1 and the same CRM system, just 2 websites. Works
fine so
far.

But, the trouble starts with reports. The report-services are located on
our
SQL database server. This is accessed in CRM in the background using a
different URL then CRM itself. This doesn't matter for Internal use. The

trouble starts externally, since this URL is not SSL enabled and, more
importantly, not available for access from the outside. So reports don't

work in the CRM SSL version.

Let's say I am able to make the report-services also use SSL and be
available Externally. How do I 'tell' CRM to use this new URL ? (I now
diddly squad about programming).

Grtz
Richard

CurtSpanburgh
Mon Jul 02 09:22:00 CDT 2007

There is that workaround where you tell the CRM application server to
communicate with the SQL server via NTLM.

It's a trade off though. You loose report scheduling.

But I got reports working at a client that way.

Their problem was a Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 trust between two
continents.
Kerberos traffic does not pass between that kind of trust so the clients in
the Win2k domain could not access the SPNs in the Windows 2003 forest.

The registry change fixed that. I just have to remember where I put it.
/:>


"Henry McCallum" <Henry McCallum>, "Jr." wrote:

>
>
> ==============================================================
> Henry E. McCallum Jr. | Sr. Consultant, CRM Practice | ePartners
> 202.436.6992 (Mobile) 703.488.3102 (Office) 270.342.4707
> (eFax)
> mailto:hmccallum@epartnersolutions.com (email & MSMessenger)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RichardW [mailto:helpdesk@ortec.nl]
> Posted At: Friday, June 29, 2007 8:56 AM
> Posted To: microsoft.public.crm
> Conversation: Publish CRM with SSL and reports-services URL
> Subject: Publish CRM with SSL and reports-services URL
>
> We have published our CRM webserver externally using SSL (without ISA I
> might add). I just cloned the default CRM website in IIS, and adapted
> that
> for SSL.
> So we now have 2 CRM websites, one for internal use and 1 for external
> use.
> Obviously they are 1 and the same CRM system, just 2 websites. Works
> fine so
> far.
>
> But, the trouble starts with reports. The report-services are located on
> our
> SQL database server. This is accessed in CRM in the background using a
> different URL then CRM itself. This doesn't matter for Internal use. The
>
> trouble starts externally, since this URL is not SSL enabled and, more
> importantly, not available for access from the outside. So reports don't
>
> work in the CRM SSL version.
>
> Let's say I am able to make the report-services also use SSL and be
> available Externally. How do I 'tell' CRM to use this new URL ? (I now
> diddly squad about programming).
>
> Grtz
> Richard
>
>