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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Incubation Week

Last week Sanjay Jain let us know that there will be an Incubation week 12/15/2008 - 12/19/2008 in Reston, VA.  If you are interested in CRM or looking to get more in depth knowledge of the product, I highly recommend checking out Sanjay's blog post to get details on attending.  This is a no fee event.

Here is a blurb from Sanjay's post:

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Incubation Week is designed to offer following assistance to entrepreneurs.

Learning and building next generation business solution on Microsoft Dynamics CRM Platform (a rapid application development platform to reduce the cost and Go-To-Market time) with help of on-site advisors (Microsoft Dynamics CRM experts).

Getting entrepreneurs coaching from a panel of industry experts (academic and angel investors)

Generating marketing buzz for their ideas

 

Posted: Nov 25 2008, 10:31 AM by Ross | with 3 comment(s)
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Update Rollup 1 now available for CRM 4

Microsoft has released Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Server, Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Microsoft Office Outlook, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 E-mail Router.
For more information about this release, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 952858.

To download the update, click here.

Similar to the CRM 3 rollups, make sure to take caution when exporting and importing customizations:

When customizations are exported from Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Server, we do not encourage you to import the customizations to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Server in the following scenarios:

  • The server from which you are exporting customizations does not have Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 1 installed. However, the server to which you are importing the customizations has Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 1 installed.
  • The server from which you are exporting customizations has Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 1 installed. However, the server to which you are importing the customizations does not have Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 1 installed.

Here is a list of the key items fixed, taken from the support KB:

KB Description
957792 Error message when you try to import an organization to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: "Error| Import Organization (Name=[Company_Name], Id=[OrganizationID]) failed"
957701 A workflow stays in the In Progress or Waiting status when you run the workflow in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
952046 The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 client for Outlook may stop responding when other Outlook add-ins are also installed on the computer
956129 You may receive an error message when you try to save an appointment, promote an e-mail message, or run the E-mail Router in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
954811 Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Deployment Manager takes a long time to open on a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 server
955234 The changes that you made in offline mode are lost when you go online in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 client for Outlook
949564 Windows Internet Explorer stops responding when you edit the working hours for a user in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
956805 Error message when you edit an order that has the price locked in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: "Crm Exception: Message: The product and the unit cannot be updated while the entity is locked., ErrorCode: -2147206371"
956869 Error message when you create a new organization or import an organization in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: "Service msftesql was not found on computer '[Computer_name]'"
954349 You cannot select a price list even though a Price List lookup button exists in the Create Entity form or in the Update Entity form in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
954800 Microsoft Outlook stops responding when you open, close, reply to, or forward e-mail messages in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 client for Outlook
952724 You cannot view any e-mail messages in the folders after you install the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 On-Premise client for Outlook
952925 Error message when you try to add a user to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 from a trusted domain: "An error has occurred. Try this action again"
951718 You receive script error messages when you browse through pages under the Microsoft Dynamics CRM folder in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 client for Outlook
955049 Error message when you try to go offline in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 client for Outlook: "Failed move data for entity 'Saved View' during action Insert, countRows=13"
948121 Outlook may stop responding when you exit Outlook, go offline in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 client for Outlook, or go online in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 client for Outlook
951884 The Microsoft.crm.Application.Hoster.exe service stops running when you run the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 client for Outlook with Offline Access
948043 You cannot import the customizations from a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 system that you upgraded to another Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 system that you also upgraded
948045 Outlook stops responding when you track an Outlook contact in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 client for Outlook
948155 A date or a time may not be converted to UTC time in the database for some time zones in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
948172 Error message when you delete a queue item from a queue in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: "Record is unavailable"
951179 Error message when you try to go offline in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 client for Outlook with Offline Access: "Failed move data for entity"
949141 Error message when you click "View in CRM" after you create an appointment in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 client for Outlook: "At least one recipient could not be resolved to a record in the system"
954916 Error message when you print an activity from the Activities view in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: "Error: 'LOCID_UI_DIR' is undefined"
950175 You cannot use Outlook as expected until all Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 add-ins are loaded
950680 The workflow rules no longer run when you use the Deployment Manager Import Organization Wizard to import an organization in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
953905 An update is available for the time zone and daylight saving time changes in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 client for Microsoft Office Outlook
951300 The Full-Text Search feature cannot find Microsoft Knowledge Base articles and the status of some contracts cannot be set to Expire when you run the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Deployment Manager
952019 The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 E-Mail Router service stops processing e-mail messages after a specific period of time
Posted: Nov 25 2008, 04:33 AM by Ross | with no comments
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