CRM 2011 and Sharepoint 2010 - A Match Made in Document Management Heaven

March 22, 2021 / By / About Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Our salesperson is always irritated with having to save proposals and other documents in CRM 4 and Sharepoint.  And the way CRM handles attachments is not the most intuitive or eye catching of features. I have not told her that there are custom integration solutions between CRM 4 and Sharepoint; that is our secret.  But I did tell her that in the future release of CRM 2011, the ability to integrate Sharepoint and CRM comes with the product. I swear I thought I saw a tear of happiness come to her eye. When I told my fellow consultants they got down right giddy.

Sharepoint 2010 and CRM 2011 are a match made in document management heaven. With Sharepoint 2010 installed along with a special Sharepoint list part and a few configuration items set in CRM 2011 you can have document folders set up automatically in Sharepoint when you create entities in CRM.  And documents created, updated, and saved in those Sharepoint folders will be available in CRM. Plus you can do this integration with a combination of on premise and online solutions between the two products. The online to online integration is still in the works but promises to be ready for the release of CRM 2011 at the beginning of next year.

Though the integration works with Sharepoint 2007, the list part that allows the automatic folder creation is only available for Sharepoint 2010. So do yourself and your salesperson a favor;  be sure and put a line item in your budget for upgrading to Sharepoint 2010 right alongside the line item for upgrading to CRM 2011. Your salesperson and the rest of your staff with thank you for it.

by Paige Cassada, Intelligent Technologies, Inc a Southeastern Dynamics partner

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6 thoughts on “CRM 2011 and Sharepoint 2010 - A Match Made in Document Management Heaven”

  2. Jhon Medina

    HI,
    Sharepoint 2010 has the record center characteristic. My company is going to use it and the specialist in Sharepoint said that the native integracion between Dynamics CRM 2011 and Sharepoint 2010 using list component is an error of Microsoft. They said that the use of record center eliminates the necesity of using list component and the native integracion and that it is better to build the integration from zero using the Sharepoint record center services and capabilities.
    What do you think about this concept? Do you agree that it is better to build the integration from scatch using record center or do you think that it is better to use and extend the oob integration?

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