Set up CRM Online to use SharePoint Online

Applies To: CRM Online

[This topic is pre-release documentation and is subject to change in future releases.]

When you use Microsoft SharePoint Online with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, you can:

• Create, upload, view, and delete documents stored in SharePoint from within Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

• Use the SharePoint document management abilities within Microsoft Dynamics CRM, such as checking the document in and out, viewing version history, and changing document properties.

• Enable non-Microsoft Dynamics CRM users, such as customers who want to review a bid, to directly access the SharePoint documents, provided they have the appropriate permissions.

To set up CRM Online to use SharePoint Online, complete the following steps.

Assign user permissions to the Team SharePoint site

Your Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and Microsoft Office 365 users are not automatically allowed access to your SharePoint sites. You must work within the SharePoint site to assign specific permission levels to individual users or groups.

Assign users to the Team site

1. Browse to the Office 365 admin center and sign in using Office 365 Global administrator credentials.

2. Open the Office 365 app launcher, and then choose Sites.

   

3. On the Sites page, choose Team Site.

4. On the Home page, choose Share your site.

   

5. To view the default permissions for your team site, choose lots of people.

   

6. By default, all users in your Microsoft Office 365 organization are able to add and edit documents on the Team SharePoint site. To invite others, choose Invite people and add people external to your organization to share documents.

   For more information about SharePoint permissions, see Introduction: Control user access with permissions

Configure CRM Online for SharePoint document management

For CRM Online organizations, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Spring ‘14 introduces a new server-based (using server-to-server authentication) SharePoint integration that removes the need to install or continue to use the Microsoft Dynamics CRM List Component solution.

If you are a new organization and have not yet deployed document management, see Configure a new organization.

If your organization is already using document management with Microsoft Dynamics CRM List Component, you can switch to server-based SharePoint integration. More information: Switching from the list component or changing the deployment

These names should match.

Configure a new organization

If your CRM organization has not deployed document management, when a CRM System Administrator logs in an alert message will be displayed to enable server-based SharePoint integration.

1. In the Enable Server-based SharePoint Integration alert click Next.

2. Choose Online for where your SharePoint sites are located, and then choose Next.

   

3. If your Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is not connected to a SharePoint online site, enter the URL (for example https://contoso.sharepoint.com) of your SharePoint site that you will use for auto folder creation, and then choose Next.

   Tip

   To see your SharePoint site collections, in the Office 365 admin center, choose Admin > SharePoint, and then choose site collections.

   

4. The URL will be checked for being a valid SharePoint online site and for existing in the same Office 365 tenant as your CRM organization. After enabling server-based SharePoint integration you can’t go back to the previous client-side integration. Choose Enable.

   After you enable server-based SharePoint the options to Install List Components and to enable server-based integration will no longer appear as an option in Document Management.

   Once server-based SharePoint integration is enabled you will need to enable the entities you want available for document management integration. More information: Help & Training: Enable document management on entities

Using Document Management

You are now ready to add document storage locations to the entities you enabled above and start managing documents. Begin by opening a document management-enabled record (for example, Contact).

1. Browse to your Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online web application.

2. Go to Sales > Accounts. (How do I get there?)

3. Choose an account, such as the Adventure Works sample account.

4. On the nav bar, choose the down arrow next to the account name, and then choose Documents.

   

5. Choose Upload, and then browse to a document to upload to the new folder in your Microsoft Office 365 SharePoint Online Team site.

   

6. The document is now part of your Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online documents list. To see the document in your Microsoft Office 365 SharePoint Online Team site, choose Open SharePoint.

   

   The document is now in your Microsoft Office 365 SharePoint Online Team site.

   

7. Choose Site Contents to see all the document libraries created for the managed entities you selected.

   The entities you selected to be managed by Document Management appear as document libraries (for example: Account, Article, Case, Lead, Opportunity, Product, Quote, and Sales Literature).

   

More information: Help & Training: Manage SharePoint documents from within Microsoft Dynamics CRM

See Also

Other Resources

Manage your documents using SharePoint
SharePoint Online for IT pros
SharePoint and CRM

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