Is it possible/advisable to register a MS CRM plugin WITHOUT using the registration tool provided by microsoft

Basically I am looking at doing remote deployment of custom plugin and workflow to an IFD MS CRM deployment. This means that the tool provided by Microsoft cannot be used.

Does any开发者_如何转开发one do this?

Is it advisable or not?

What resources are available?

I've done a lot of google-ing and reading and it seems like everyone is using the deployment tool.

Absolutely. There are a series of entities that you need to set up to do this. If I'm not mistaken, the SDK includes the source for a plugin registration tool... you can look at that to see how it's done, and you'd just need to update it to work with IFD.