Changing the Port Number of your CRM Website

One might think that changing the port number which CRM uses is pretty straight forward but I found that it wasn't quite as simple as I thought. I ran into this in order to get CRM and SharePoint to play nice together on a server which already had CRM installed and I needed to install SharePoint on the same server.

The first thing that I did was go into the IIS Management Console and manually change the port number there. I found out that was only half the problem. From here, once this change is made one could run a repair and that should make all of the necessary changes to the CRM web site for you from there. However, if you have installed Rollup1, or any other patches for that matter, you would then have to reinstall everyone of those patches. Not the most effective use of time in my opinion.

So, after poking around a bit I found that the other piece that I needed to update was the URL registry key titled "ServerURL" under the "HKey_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSCRM" hive. You simply need only to add the colon ":" and the port number and you're set. So, your URL would go from "http:///MSCRMServices" to "http:///MSCRMServices:5555" and you're set. Quick, efficient and it works.

David Fronk
Dynamic Methods Inc.