CRM 2011 – Update Rollup 8 released and speed improvement i

Download link : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29692

Kb article link : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2600644

Donna Edwards blog post : http://edwardsdna.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/mscrmur8/

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Removal information

You can uninstall Update Rollup 8 from a Microsoft Dynamics CRM server. However, you should back up your databases before you uninstall Update Rollup 8. For more information, go to the following Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) websites:

Create a Full Database Backup (SQL Server)

Restore a Database Backup (SQL Server Management Studio)

Update Rollup 8 contains the following fixes and updates: 

• An appointment is not displayed in the service calendar in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.
  This issue occurs when the duration of the appointment is zero and when the end date of the appointment is the same as the start date of the next appointment.
• Consider the following scenario:
  • You create an appointment in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 client for Outlook.
  • You select the option to track the appointment in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and then you save the appointment.
  • You open the appointment and then change the value in the pick list.
  In this scenario, the value in the pick list is not saved.
• When you copy the Service Manager role to rename the role, and then you assign the role to a user, the service calendar is not displayed. This issue occurs after you create a new organization in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 with the Portuguese language pack installed.
• The Import Data Wizard stays in the loading status in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 with Internet Explorer 10.
• The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 client for Outlook crashes when the reading pane is enabled in a form that contains many multiline text box fields in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.
• The W3WP process crashes with unhandled exceptions in the scheduling engine thread in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.
• When there are many users and equipment and when the LeastBusy option is enabled in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, you experience slow performance in the service-scheduling process.
• When you click attachments in the reading pane in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, the Openbutton is enabled unexpectedly.
• Software Development Kit (SDK) receives a deserialization exception for users on Microsoft Office Online. This issue occurs because of an unexpected response from the GetUserRealm call.
• There is no validation for domains in the stage.axpx.cs page in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.
• When you create a new Email type quick campaign and then select a new template that you created, an alert popup appears.
• When you run a report in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 in a Report Definition Language (RDL) sandboxed environment, images in the report truncate or do not load.
• After you set the Min Pool Size value to 20 in CrmSqlCnnectionManager, many SQL connections that do not have a valid SQL handle are generated or remained in Microsoft SQL Server.
• When you switch folders in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 in a wide area network (WAN) environment, you experience slow performance.
• No perfmon data is logged for the "#Organizations" performance counter.
• When you apply Update Rollup 6 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, the language provisioning jobs fail. Additionally, you receive the following error message:
  Reprovisioning Job for 1033 Failed.
• When you click Insert Template in an email activity, you receive the following error message intermittently:
  An error has occurred.
• After you perform a synchronization process in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 client for Outlook, status reason codes are changed to the default status reason code in activities that are closed.
• When you click to open an attachment in a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 record, the Openbutton is unavailable in the file download dialog box.
• You cannot seamlessly access Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 pages in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 client for Outlook.
• Assume that you call the SetLabel function from the "Xrm.Page.ui.controls" namespace on thepriceperunit attribute of the Quote entity in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. When you set the product type option to Write-in and then close the quote product form, you receive the following error message:
  Object doesn't support this property or method.
• When you try to list trusted domains in the New Multiple Users wizard in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, an error occurs.
• You cannot import an organization into the same Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 deployment if the business unit entity has new attributes added.
• Assume that you update the default Outlook filter templates by using SDK. When you perform an Outlook Filter Reset process, two or three filters with the same name but with different fetchxml are generated.
• Assume that you untrack Microsoft Dynamics CRM email messages in the Outlook inbox explorer view in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. When you try to delete the corresponding email activity from the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 server, you receive the following error message:
  Unrecognized GUID Format.
• Assume that you are not a member of any administrative groups in an Active Directory schema. When you export a dynamic worksheet to a Microsoft Excel worksheet, you may receive the following error message:
  [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][ SQL Server] The select permission was denied for the object 'fn_GetGuidsFromString'.
• The donotbulkpostalmail account attribute is not editable. Additionally, the account attribute is not listed when you design the entity form.
• When you synchronize appointments in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 by using Microsoft Outlook online mode (noncached mode), all attendees in the appointments become organizers in Outlook.
• When you export advanced find views that contain "Or" conditions to dynamic worksheets, incorrect SQL query syntax is generated.
• When you revise a closed quote, you receive the following warning message:
  Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?
  However, the Revised Quote form opens above the Closed Quote form.
• You cannot cancel the "On Save" event in a recurring appointment form by using Java scripts in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.
• When you perform RetrieveMultiple queries for the listmemeber entity by using the paging functionality and then pass the paging cookies to improve performance, not all listmembers are returned. Some queries retrieve two full pages of data, and the second page indicates there are more records. However, no records are returned on the third page.
  This issue occurs when the "OrderType.Descending" order type is used in the OrderExpresion for the createdon or modifiedon attributes.
• When you open a form in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, you receive the following script error message:
  The disk is full.
• Consider the following scenario in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011:
  • You click My Work, and then click Activities.
  • You click Phone Call, and then open the debugging tool.
  • You click the Script tab on the left side, and then click the Console tab on the right side.
  • You click the List in regarding field.
  In this scenario, you receive an error message that resembles the following:
  
  HTML1422: Malformed start tag. A self closing slash should be followed by a U+003E GREATER-THAN SIGN (>).
  lookupinfo.aspx, line 1018 character 5434
  HTML1422: Malformed start tag. A self closing slash should be followed by a U+300E GREATER-THAN SIGN (>).
  lookupinfo.aspx, line 1018 character 5440
  HTML1409: Invalid attribute name character. Attribute names should not contain ("),('),(<), or (=).
  lookupinfo.aspx, line 1018 character 5455
• Assume that you have a named instance of SQL Server that has ports specified and that you disable the SQL Browser service. When you try to install Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 in the named instance of SQL Server, the installation fails. Additionally, you cannot create organizations by using the named instance of SQL Server in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.
• If you register a plug-in against an opportunity entity in the post-operation stage, the plug-in is unexpectedly executed outside the transaction.
• When you try to export campaign activity distribution failures to Microsoft Excel, you receive the following error message:
  Invalid Argument.
• When you receive incoming email messages from duplicate contacts in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, the email messages are tracked incorrectly.
• A dynamic value, such as a date, in a record from a query does not reflect your time zone or regional date format in a dialog box.
• When you try to qualify an opportunity, an account, or a contact, a duplicate detention dialog box appears. However, when you continue to qualify the record, the dialog box stops responding. Additionally, you receive the following error message on the Internet Explorer status bar:
  Error on page.
• View list caching causes an incorrect list of views in other parts of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. Therefore, when you customize the dashboard with a grid component and set certain views to be available in the grid component, not all views are displayed.
• Some entities are added to the cache to improve the performance for the Service Scheduling process.
  For more information about how to enable the performance improvements, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  2651621  Service Scheduling performance enhancements for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011
• When you synchronize appointments in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 to Microsoft Outlook, the appointments are generated as meeting requests. This issue occurs even though there are no attendees who are listed in the appointments.
• Assume that a contact entity contains trailing spaces in a text field in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. In this situation, the contact entity is synchronized continuously in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM client for Outlook. This occurs even though no record is changed in the contact entity.
• The edit.aspx page double-loads unexpectedly.

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Update Rollup 7 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is available

Download Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=29221

KB Link:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2600643/en-us

Issues that are resolved in Update Rollup 7 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

Update Rollup 7 is a cumulative update rollup that includes all the fixes for the issues that are documented in Update Rollup 1 through Update Rollup 6.

For more information about previous update rollups and the issues that they resolve, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

2466084  Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is available
2466086  Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is available
2547347  Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is available
2556767  Update Rollup 4 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is available
2567454  Update Rollup 5 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is available
2600640  Update Rollup 6 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is available

Update Rollup 7 contains the following additional fixes and updates:

When you open a record directly from a bookmark or a link, an unusual padding appears. Additionally, when you try to browse away from the page, you receive a script error message that asks you to send an error report to Microsoft.
You cannot type a backslash (\) in a text field in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 forms. This problem occurs when the system is set up to use a German standard keyboard.
When you open a record on an associated view, picklists become inactive in Internet Explorer 9.
After you upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, you cannot resolve cases that have contract lines associated.
Consider the following scenario:

You open a record, and then you click Connect.

In the Connect dialog box, you type information into fields, and then you click Save and New.

In this scenario, the new Connect dialog box does not save the connection to the original record.
You cannot type special characters that require the right Alt key (AltGr) on keyboard in some Microsoft Dynamics CRM forms.
When you open a record and then click the notes text, the width of the text area shrinks to the default size. This problem occurs when you do not have the Write permissions on notes for the record.
When you right-click a read-only field in a form in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, you receive the following error message:

Microsoft Dynamics CRM has encountered an error.

Consider the following scenario:
You open Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 by using the https protocol and do not specify the port number.
You open an existing account or create a new account, type a value in the Account Number field, and then click Save.
You update the same form again, and then click Save.
In this scenario, you receive the following error message:

Access Denied.

When you merge accounts or contacts, the related connection records are not updated to point to the master record in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.
When you try to add more than 50,000 members to a marketing list, you receive the following error message:

An error has occurred. Try this action again. If the problem continues, check the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Community for solutions or contact your organization's Microsoft Dynamics CRM Administrator. Finally, you can contact Microsoft Support.AggregateQueryRecordLimit exceeded. Cannot perform this operation.

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When you create a new solution and then export it as a managed solution, the XML is invalid. This problem occurs when you rename a subgrid control on an existing form for an existing subgrid. In this situation, the import wizard does not validate the XML, and you receive the following error message:

The import file is invalid. XSD validation failed.

Additionally, when you view the technical details, you receive the following error message:

Element 'control' cannot appear more than once if content model type is "all".

Consider the following scenario:
You click File, click New activity, and then click Appointment.
You add a subject.
You type a date in the Appointment Activity field that is two weeks in the future, and then you click Save.
You click Recurrence.
In this scenario, the date in the Start Range field displays the current date instead of the expected date of two weeks in the future.
Consider the following scenario:
You create a new account in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.
In the Website field, you type a URL that contains a quotation mark.
You create a grid view on accounts and then add the Website column.
You view the grid.
In this scenario, the script is executed incorrectly and you receive an error message.
When you configure a bulk deletion job, and then you send the customer a link by using an email message to check the status of the bulk deletion job, the URL in the email message is incorrect.
When you import a price list from an Excel worksheet, the prices are multiplied by 100. This problem occurs when the Excel spreadsheet resides on a server that has non-US regional settings.
When you update a Microsoft Dynamics CRM organization to another Microsoft SQL Server SKU, no audit partition is created.
When you try to add a column to an incident related view in the Activity entity in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Turkish installation, you receive the following error message:

Entity type does not exist in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

When you try to run the Account Summary reports in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 in a non-English language, you receive the following error message:

Subreport could not be shown.

Consider the following scenario:
You make a copy of the Salesperson Security Role, and then you set the User Read permission to the business unit (BU) level on the Business Management tab in the copy.
You create a user in a BU that is not the primary BU, and then you assign the new role that you created to the user.
You configure the user for Microsoft Dynamics CRM client for Outlook.
In Office Outlook, the user clicks Option, and then clicks Mail.
The user selects the Create check box and the Contacts option for the Automatically create records setting in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM section.
An email message is sent to the user from a non-Microsoft Dynamics CRM user.
The user tracks the email message from inbox
In this scenario, the user receives the following error message:

An unknown error occurred while synchronizing data to Outlook.

When you import dashboards as part of a solution and the solution contains labels for languages that are not the base language, the labels are not created during the import of the solution.
Too many trace log error events are logged in the trace logs in for Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
You cannot execute a request to retrieve metadata by using the 2007 Metadata Service, as the System or Integration user, in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.
You cannot register a plugin on the Create message function for the UserQuery entity.
Assume that you use LINQ in a Microsoft Dynamics CRM plugin with the OrganizationServiceContext object to retrieve related records. When you update the records, you receive the following error message:

Type: System.InvalidOperationException
Message: The entity is read-only and the 'Id' property cannot be modified. Use the context to update the entity instead.

Assume that you try to create a quick campaign from the results of an Advanced Find query. When you complete the Quick Campaign wizard, you receive the following error message:

Invalid Argument error.

Service Activities continuously synchronize to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM client for Outlook.
When you try to open a message that is saved in the .msg format and the message is set to read-only in the file properties, you receive the following error message:

Microsoft CRM has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

This problem occurs in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2010.
The grid views and the reading pane in Microsoft Dynamics CRM client for Outlook do not display the data by using the number formats that are specified in the Personal Optionssettings in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.
When you import or re-import some currency or decimal field values from Excel spreadsheet XML files, the record imports fail with format exceptions.
When you import data by using the "Templates for Data Import" process with Excel or XML files, white spaces are not removed.
If you enable the Do Not Create Activities option, attachments are not attached to email messages during mail merges.
If you cancel the duplication detection process, the PreValidation plugin does not merge changes.
When you reassign an appointment record that is recurring to a user, only the master record is assigned. The recurring records are not assigned to the user. 
The RenderGridView.aspx page is cached for only one day incorrectly. However, the cache time should be longer.
Reprocessing for the async process for transport level errors should be added.
When you create a record in an entity in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, you receive the following error message:

CrmException: Cannot insert duplicate key

When you run Microsoft Dynamics CRM client for Outlook, Microsoft Office Outlook client crashes. This problem occurs when the FormRegion object is set.

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Hotfixes and updates that you must enable or configure manually

Update Rollup 7 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 contains no hotfixes or updates that you must enable or configure manually.

Update Rollup 6 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 contains the following hotfixes and updates that you must enable or configure manually. To enable or to configure these hotfixes or these updates on the server that is running Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, follow the instructions in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article. The article contains steps that you can follow before you install Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 if you want to maintain the functionality of the release version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011:

2664150  Steps to clean up the PrincipalObjectAccess table in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 after Update Rollup 6 is applied

To prevent pinned views from pulling down information to local SQL Server CE caches, a registry key can be set on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Outlook clients. This can also help reduce the overall network traffic that is sent from a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 server to a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Outlook client computer.

Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

322756  How to back up and restore the registry in Windows

To do this, follow these steps:
Log on to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Outlook client computers as a user who has installed the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Outlook client.
Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
Locate and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSCRMClient

On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD (32-bit) Value.
Type DisableMapiCaching, and then press ENTER.
Right-click DisableMapiCaching, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
Right-click DisableMapiCaching, and then click Modify.
In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
On the File menu, click Exit to exit Registry Editor.

Update Rollup 5 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 contains no hotfixes or updates that you must configure manually.

Update Rollup 4 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 contains no hotfixes or updates that you must configure manually.

Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 contains no hotfixes or updates that you must configure manually.

Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 contains the following hotfixes and updates that you must enable or configure manually. To enable or to configure these hotfixes or these updates on the server that is running Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, follow the instructions in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article. The article contains steps that you can follow before you install Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 if you want to maintain the functionality of the release version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011:

2535245  You experience slow performance when you perform RetrieveMultiple queries on large datasets in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 contains no hotfixes or updates that you must configure manually.

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Hotfixes and updates that were released as individual fixes

The following bugs were fixed and delivered as critical on demand (COD) fixes:

Assume that you have a solution that contains an option set attribute which has no prefix. When you import updates to the solution from an earlier version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, you receive the following error message:

The schema attribute is not unique.

Mail items from Outlook Explorer are not promoted when the items are opened in the background.
When you try to promote an item by using the Set Regarding function and the promotion fails, the item continues to have the regarding information set with only four user-defined fields. Therefore, when the promotion error is resolved, and then you try to promote the item again, the promotion still fails.
When you try to configure Microsoft Dynamics CRM client for Outlook, you receive the following error message:

Cannot connect to Microsoft Dynamics CRM server because we cannot authenticate your credentials. Check your connection or contact your administrator for help.

When you try to import a managed solution that contains a label change, you receive the following error message:

The evaluation of the current component (name=LocalizedLabel, id=631f30e6-1ebf-48c8-8ef4-f8000ee973dd) in the current operation (Update) failed during managed property evaluation of condition: Microsoft.Crm.BusinessEntities.IsRenameableCondition

When you tab on a user domain name to retrieve user information from Active Directory in a large domain that contains multiple child domains, you experience slow performance.
Assume that you change the SiteMap in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 by linking to custom views as an HTML web resource. When you click the link to the views, you receive the following error message:

An error has occurred. Try this action again. If the problem continues, check the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Community for solutions or contact your organization's Microsoft Dynamics CRM Administrator. Finally, you can contact Microsoft Support.

Additionally, the following error message is logged in the platform trace:

Error: CRM Parameter Filter - Invalid parameter 'layout=0' in Request.QueryString

When you perform a quick search in Microsoft Dynamics CRM client for Outlook, you experience slow performance.
When you click Add Existing to associatemore than 250 records to a record in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Internet Explorer becomes unresponsive. Additionally, you receive the following error message:

Message: Stop running this script? A script on this page is causing your web browser to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer might become unresponsive.

When you try to assign an entity to a team in a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 workflow, you cannot select any existing team field value for the assignment.
Assume that an entity form is customized to have multiple sub-grids with auto-expansion enabled in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. When you move grids to a sub-area in the form, the grids are resized.
When you import a contact by using the Add Contacts wizard, the Company Name field for the contact is deleted in Office Outlook. This problem occurs when the Use Company Name to be the Account option is disabled.
Consider the following scenario:
You create a new email message in Office Outlook.
You select Rich Text format on the Format Text tab.
You add some text to the email message, and then add embedded images.
You enter data in the To, From, and Subject fields.
You click the Track button, and then click Send.
You review the tracked email activity in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011.
In this scenario, the inserted image is not displayed in the Email activity. Instead, the picture is displayed as an attachment that has a zero size.