Title Page Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook More than 80 extension recipes to get the most out of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Rami Mounla BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI Copyright Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook Copyright © 2017 Packt Publishing All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information First published: June 2017 Production reference: 1020617 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd Livery Place 35 Livery Street Birmingham B3 2PB, UK ISBN 978-1-78646-417-0 www.packtpub.com Credits Author Copy Editor Rami Mounla Zainab Bootwala Reviewer Project Coordinator Nicolae Tarla Prajakta Naik Commissioning Editor Proofreader Aaron Lazar Safis Editing Acquisition Editor Indexer Shaon Basu Tejal Daruwale Soni Content Development Editor Graphics Lawrence Veigas Abhinash Sahu Technical Editors Production Coordinator Pranali Badge Melwyn Dsa Dhiraj Chandanshive Licensing From a licensing perspective, Dynamics 365 saw a departure from the familiar essential, basic, professional, and enterprises licenses to a team member, application-based, or plan-based licensing model Device licensing is also available for scenarios where multiple users access Dynamics 365 through a shared device Volume discounts can also be applied to organizations that purchase a large number of licenses Team member licenses are equivalent to essential licenses in previous Dynamics CRM versions Team member licenses only offer read-write to account, contact, custom entities, and a few other supporting capabilities However, most of the remaining out-of-the-box entities can only be accessed in read-only mode The following extract from the licensing guide highlights the different access types based on the different license types: Whereas this screenshot highlights the different types of usages based on different licenses: The application-specific licenses grant access to one or more modules This license is the cheaper option for users that are primarily interested in one module However, if users are interested in more than one module, then Plan or Plan licenses are the more economical options A Plan gives you the license to use a collection of modules, as highlighted in the following screenshot The Plan license includes all of Plan 1's offering plus operations: Different license types can be mixed between users within one Office 365 tenancy Volume discounts can also be applied to organizations that purchase a large number of licenses Instances Dynamics 365 instances were also revamped Specifically, sandbox instances, which were once equal in capabilities to their production counterparts, are now classified into tiers to Tier sandboxes are the cheapest basic instance with limited scalability, whereas tier are the most expensive ones that mirror production instances and are capable of withstanding large load tests Storage At the time of writing, a base Dynamics 365 package includes GB of storage Every additional 20 licenses offer an additional GB of storage for your instances Currently, there is a technical limitation of a maximum TB of total storage Dynamics 365 (Plan 1) and Dynamics 365 for Operations storage are counted separately Further reading To learn more about the enterprise offering, read the Dynamics 365 enterprise edition licensing guide at: http://download.microsoft.com/documents/en-us/dynamics/pricing/Dynamics_365_Enterprise_edition_Licen sing_Guide.pdf For further information about the SMB edition, read the Dynamics 365 Business edition licensing guide at: http://download.microsoft.com/documents/en-us/dynamics/Dynamics%20365%20Business%20edition%20 Licensing%20Guide.pdf Dynamics 365 Add-ons In addition to the core modules described in Appendix A, Architectural Views, Dynamics 365 offers a range of add-ons The following Dynamics 365 Administration Center screenshot demonstrates a sample solution management page: Some can be installed from the Dynamics 365 Administration Center by navigating to INSTANCES |