MS CRM : Deployment and Authentication Model

    Deployment                                                     Authentication Model



-  MS CRM online                                              Claim Based Authentication.

- MS CRM 2011 online premises                       Claims Based / Active Directory Authentication.

- MS CRM 2011 IFD                                          Active Directory / Claims Based Authentication

Claims Based Authentication process a  request to authenticate a user is sent from Microsoft

 

Dynamics CRM 2011 or Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online or a custom application to the STS

 

server. The STS server determines whether the user should be authenticated, and if this is the

case, issues a signed and encrypted SAML token that contains user authentication

information.

 

 

And Active Directory authentication process are as follows,

A request to authenticate a user is sent from Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 or a

custom application to Active Directory. The WCF stack manages the

authentication process for Microsoft Dynamics CRM SDK API calls from an

application, whereas Internet Information Services (IIS) manages authentication

for a web application.