The Customer Portal solution, developed by Microsoft and Adxstudio, provides businesses with the ability to deliver portal capabilities to their customers while tracking and managing these interactions in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. It supports all CRM deployment models: Online, On Premise, and SPLA. The portal site can be created on any Windows Server 2003/2008 + IIS7 or even Windows Azure platform.
The Customer Portal solution comes with Windows Live authentication, but the framework supports any ASP.NET membership provider.
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In this book, we use the free version that is delivered by Adxstudio and Microsoft; Adxstudio also has a commercial version called "Adxstudio Portal" which provides more enterprise features.
Adxstudio Portal includes the following list of tools: Web Content Management, Event Management, Social, Research, Membership, E-Service, and E-Commerce. For additional product information, see http://www.adxstudio.com/adxstudio-xrm...