Advanced SharePoint

Integration with the Azure

Service Bus and Dynamics CRM

Aonghus Fraser / @gusfraser

Aonghus (Gus) Fraser

Director, SharePoint Lead Consultant @ C5

Gold Partner with ~160 consultants in the

Channel Islands (www.c5alliance.com)

Approx 18 SharePoint Consultants

Run www.cispug.org, SPSJE

4th time presenting at SPEVO

af@c5.je / @gusfraser

Jersey

Guernsey

Agenda

Introductions

Out Of The Box Options (SP / CRM)

Point to Point vs Service Bus Architecture

Azure Service Bus Overview

Azure Service Bus Demonstrations

Q&A

Out Of The Box

SharePoint / CRM

Integration

OOTB SharePoint CRM Integration

Limited flexibility

Folder per CRM Entity

Security limitations

Point to Point

vs

Service Bus Architecture

Point to Point Integration

E.g. CRM Plugin -> SharePoint Client Object

Model

Tightly coupled

Fails “ungracefully”

Unsuitable for multiple systems (2+)

Migration / upgrade pain

Scalability

Point to Point Example

SharePoint

CRM SQL

LoB

LoB 2

Service Bus Example

SharePoint

CRM SQL

LoB

LoB 2

Service Bus Architecture

Loosely coupled

Scalable

Less complexity / connections

Easier to upgrade/migrate systems

Azure Service Bus

Overview

Azure Service Bus

Lightweight Cloud Messaging Service

Connect anything (on-prem or cloud)

Cheap (£6.109/mo)

First 12.5 million Ops/Month Included..

Flexible

.NET, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby..

Azure Service Bus – Basic vs Standard

Azure Service Bus Queues

One-to-one

Source: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/documentation/articles/service-bus-dotnet-how-to-use-queues/

Azure Service Bus Topics

One-to-many

Publish/subscribe to relevant topics

Source: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/documentation/articles/service-bus-dotnet-how-to-use-topics-subscriptions/

Azure Flexibility – SDKs

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/

AZURE SERVICE BUS NAMESPACE

AND TOPIC SETUP

Creating an Azure Service Bus Namespace and Topic

Creating a Namespace

Azure Portal limited

Use PowerShell for ACS integration:

PS C:\> New-AzureSBNamespace -

NAME SPEvo15-ns -Location

"West Europe" -

CreateACSNamespace $true

Creating a Topic

CONNECTING DYNAMICS CRM TO

THE SERVICE BUS

CRM 2015 Basics

Plugin = Event Receiver (kind of..)

Native (OOTB) Azure Service Bus Plugin

Azure ACS to handle claims

SDK Plugin Registration Tool to

configure/activate

Beware of .NET Versions (4.5.2 not yet

supported fully in Azure)

Summary

Native integration if Entity > Folder is

sufficient (security/flexibility limitations)

Azure Service Bus is easy, flexible, scalable,

reliable

Topics provide one-to-many sender to

receivers

CRM 2015 SDKs and Azure SDKs provide

great examples

Useful Links

Azure CRM Connectivity

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-

us/library/gg309276.aspx

Messaging With Topics

https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsa

zure/Getting-Started-Brokered-614d42e5

Thank you for attending!

Aonghus Fraser

@gusfraser

af@c5.je