Nice post about reporting in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Nice post by Simon Hutson about all reporting in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.

With CRM 4.0 the product needs to be deployable and secure in an Internet facing environment such as http://www.crmlive.com/. This required a re-think of our architecture, removing the need for direct database or report server access by end-users. To acheive this Microsoft made several high-level architectural changes:

- Report Viewer moved to the CRM server
- New Data Connector proxies requests
- Remove Kerberos trust for delegation requirement
- Report entity is a full CRM entity

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