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Error Installing UR 8 and 9

We have recently run into an interesting bug while trying to install update rollup 8 and 9.

The actual error file in the ur log file was:

“Cannot insert the value NULL into column ‘InvoiceNumber’, table”

And/or

“column does not allow nulls. UPDATE fails.”

In addition Update Rollup 9 seems to be stuck in a loop, generating lines and lines [...]

CRM 4 Update Rollup 9 has been released

Update rollup 9 has been released.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5869f2b3-d1a0-4f71-8be3-fde6e8053a2e&displayLang=en

We are currently testing, but so far so good.

Installing Outlook CRM Client – Mandatory updates for Microsoft Dynamics CRM could not be applied successfully

We recently ran into an interesting issue. During a rollout of the outlook crm client on various workstations running both vista and xp, we had one workstation where we simply could not configure the outlook crm client. The errors were “Mandatory updates for Microsoft Dynamics CRM could not be applied successfully” and in [...]

Dynamics CRM 4.0 Update Rollup 8 Issue

Greetings CRM’ers

We came across an interesting issue with the client side install of the recently released Update Rollup 8 today.

After starting AutoUpdate from my Outlook Client I saw that I had 1 update available for install: Update Rollup 8. I installed the update and then was prompted by AutoUpdate that I would need to Reboot [...]

Error Reinstalling CRM 4.0: Action Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Server.ProvisionBusiness Action Failed. Method not found

Error on Reinstall

Due to a license upgrade issue, I recently had to perform an uninstall and reinstall of Dynamics CRM 4.0 server. The uninstall/reinstall process is usually fairly straightforward: backup your current organization_MSCRM database, uninstall CRM via Add/Remove Programs,  restart the box, delete the MSCRM_Config DB and then reinstall CRM. Seems easy enough right? [...]

Outlook CRM Client – Constant Pending Reboot

We have begun to hear report from our client of a potential new small glitch. For some reason the outlook crm environment check sometimes keeps insisting that there is a pending reboot, even though the user has rebooted many times and nothing has been installed since then. The simples fix for this is to create [...]

Dynamics CRM Update Rollup 7: Known Issues

There are some siginificant issues with the latest Update Rollup (7) for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. While thankfully, none seem to be of the ’show stopper’ variety, I would certainly classify them as annoyances.

While there are some fairly significant performance and stability improvements in this rollup, CRM users and administrators will need to evaluate the costs/benefits of their [...]

CRM Hotfix Auto Update: Part Deux

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, I wrote a blog describing the process one would go through if they wished to configure hotfix auto updates for Outlook clients on their CRM server. The process was painful: we had to extract the contents of the hotfix file and do some hunting to [...]

JoeCRM is Downloading Update Seven to Dynamics CRM 4.0

JoeCRM is excited to announce rollout seven of Dynamics CRM 4.0. Vast improvements have been made with special attention paid to both the mobile client and the interface with Microsoft Outlook.

There are a few things to note before you download. You don’t have to install previous updates to install update seven, but all updates going [...]

CRM 4.0 Very Slow on some, but not all workstations

 

We had an interesting scenario the other day. A CRM 4.0 system that has been running fine for many months all of the sudden began to run slow on a specific workstation. The workstation had all the latest and greatest patches, tons of memory, IE 8, and windows 7.0. This was not [...]