Friday, March 13, 2009

CRM 4.0 Rollup 3

CRM 4.0 Rollup 3 was just released yesterday. It can be downloaded from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=05453fa4-9551-4a88-9852-634a9ad0e140. Patch notes can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961768.

Again there are a number of manually activated fixes so be sure to read through the patch notes carefully.

We have encountered some issues with this patch and the C360 addons Summary and Relationship Explorer. If you have either of these addons, we recommend you hold off on this addon until C360 updates those modules.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Hotfix that significantly speeds up Outlook 2007

One of the most common complaints that we get about Microsoft Dynamics CRM doesn't really have to do with CRM itself but with outlook. In a previous post, I outlined a number of tweaks that can be used to help get your Outlook up to speed but sometimes even the tweaks won't help your speed. Microsoft has released a hotfix for Outlook 2007 that addresses a number of issues including the startup and shutdown speeds. We noticed at least a 400% increase in Outlook shutdown and startup speeds. The hotfix can be located here: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=961752