This article describes the recommended way to authenticate specific user credentials by using the Microsoft Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Security Model from an external process.
To manually load the
CredentialCache method of the client proxy class, you must understand the
System.Net.CredentialCache class. For more information, visit the following MSDN Web site:
Microsoft
CRM uses integrated Microsoft Windows authentication to perform authentication. As a
result, the following Microsoft C# code loads the
CredentialCache method of the Microsoft
CRM proxy class on the server where the process that is integrating with Microsoft CRM
resides.
{
// Set the name of the server to the name of the Microsoft CRM API Web server.
string server = "CRMWebServer";
// Virtual Directory on the Microsoft CRM API Web server.
string virtualDirectory = "mscrmservices";
string strDir = "http:/" + server + "" + virtualDirectory + "";
// Instantiate a Microsoft CRM BizUser object (Member of Microsoft.CRM.Proxy.dll).
Microsoft.CRM.Proxy.BizUser bizUser = new Microsoft.CRM.Proxy.BizUser ();
bizUser.Url = strDir + "BizUser.srf";
// Instantiate a System.Net.CredentialCache object.
System.Net.CredentialCache credentialCache = new CredentialCache();
// Instantiate a System.Net.NetworkCredential object passing in the Active Directory UserName,
// Password and Domain that will be used to authenticate into the Microsoft CRM Security Model.
// Set up this user in Microsoft CRM and give the user the appropriate License Keys and Roles.
System.Net.NetworkCredential credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential +
("User1","Password","Domain");
// Add a value to the CredentialCache to indicate the URI of the Microsoft CRM Server, "NTLM",
// which represents integrated Windows authenticated and the credentials of
// the user who is to be used for authentication.
credentialCache.Add(new Uri("http:/" + server), "NTLM", credentials);
bizUser.Credentials = credentialCache;
}
Each time that the Web application has to authenticate to the Microsoft
CRM API classes and pass lead data, the application passes the credentials of User 1.
When a record is created or updated from the Web application to Microsoft CRM,
the
CreatedBy field and the
LastUpdatedBy field are populated with User 1's credentials.
For more information about the Microsoft CRM Proxy
classes, visit the following MSDN Web sites: