Microsoft Dynamics CRM Implementation Guide for CRM 2013 (on-premises)

• Planning Guide: This Microsoft Office Word document gives you information and tools that help you get your organization ready for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013. It includes two main aspects of planning for a customer relationship management (CRM) system:
  • Technical: These topics focus on areas such as the supported topologies, system requirements, and technical considerations to address before you install.
  • Implementation: These topics cover the business management, requirements, and project management aspects that are needed when you deploy a CRM system.
• Installing Guide: This Word document provides the information that you need to install Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 applications, such as step-by-step instructions for running Setup, and command-line instructions for silent installations.
• Administration Guide: This Word document contains resources and topics designed to help you manage and configure on-premises Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 deployments.
• Customization Guide: IT Pros and CRM administrators can use the resources and topics in this Word document to help implement customizations in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013.
• Operating and Maintaining Guide: This Word document gives you information about how to back up, restore, and provide data recovery for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013. Additionally, this guide provides operational procedures and troubleshooting steps for known issues.
• Report Writers Guide: This Word document shows you how to create new reports or change existing reports. Microsoft Dynamics CRM includes reports that provide useful business information to the user. Use these reports as templates for creating your own reports.
• The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Implementation Guide Compiled HTML Help file (CRMIGv6.chm) includes the contents of all the documents listed previously and provides full-text search that lets you search across the entire set of Implementation Guide documents.

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Apple Mac OS X, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP

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