We are migrating from MS CRM 4.0 to MS CRM 2011 (on premise)
Rather than a straight upgrade we are taking the opportunity to clean up the data, remove unwanted customisation and change the SQL collation while migrating to a new system.
To migrate rather than upgrade we need to createall CRM users (disabled and enabled) so the we can be sure that we correctly represent the data from MS CRM 4.0; for example a disabled user may have been involved in a meeting so we need to create them in the new system, create the appointment then disable the user.
Because some of the CRM users have been disabled for over 6 months they no longer have an AD account on the domain; this is preventing us from creating the users in the new MS CRM 2011.
The access management team here are not happy about creating all of the disabled users in AD just so we can create the new users in CRM; even though we can shut them down straight afterwards.
As far as I know youmust have the User in AD but I wanted to confirm this before I go any further.
Can you advise of another method of adding user in to CRM without an AD entry so the data integrity is maintained?