December 2, 2015

India and Canada Data Center Discovery URLs

In the last months Microsoft announced the opening of new data centers for Dynamics CRM Online in India and Canada.
These data centers are not available yet, but Microsoft defined the Discovery Web Service URLs. The addresses are:
https://disco.crm8.dynamics.com/XRMServices/2011/Discovery.svc (India)
https://disco.crm3.dynamics.com/XRMServices/2011/Discovery.svc (Canada)

The Indian data center is identified by the crm8 host, the Canadian one by crm3. This will affect also the organization url, for example if Contoso Ltd. has two branches, one in India and the other one in Canada, their urls will be:
https://contosoindia.crm8.dynamics.com
https://contosocanada.crm3.dynamics.com

The relative MSDN page has NOT been updated to include this change, the next table is a recap:

HostLocation
crmNorth America
crm4EMEA
crm5APAC
crm2South America
crm9North America 2 (CRM Online for Government)
crm7Japan
crm6Australia
crm8India
crm3Canada