CRM 4 Rollup Pack 2

Submitted by Robert MacLean on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 08:37

If you thinking, jeez this sounds familiar well it was only 1 month and 19 days ago that rollup pack 1 shipped.

You can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aa671769-61e9-45c4-919f-c88199aa4241&displaylang=en

So what’s new?

113 known (rather publicly known issues) and 18 private (i.e. MS did not publically post articles on those) fixes!

My highlight reel of fixes

  • 949844 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949844/ ) The Async service stops unexpectedly or you cannot start the Async service after you import an organization from another Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 deployment
  • 950266 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950266/ ) You are looped in the sign-in page when you try to run the Data Migration Manager Wizard in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
  • 950372 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950372/ ) You are prompted to enter your user name and password multiple times when you start Outlook, or when you click a Microsoft Dynamics CRM folder in Outlook, on a Windows Vista-based computer
  • 954313 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954313/ ) Error message when you try to log on to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Web site from the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 server: "Request IP Address has different address family from network address"
  • 956112 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956112/ ) Error messages in the Application log on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM server after you delete a quick campaign: "Deletion Service failed to clean up table=[Table_Name]"
  • 956282 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956282/ ) Error message when you use the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 SDK to develop a Custom Workflow Activity assembly: "The Key cannot be NULL"
  • 956859 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956859/ ) The Microsoft Dynamics CRM toolbar is disabled in Outlook after you lose the network connection for less than one minute
  • When you use impersonation in an Internet-Facing Deployment (IFD) environment, you receive the following error message: 0x80040204 Invalid user auth
Any major risks?

You can uninstall Update Rollup 2. So make sure you have backups if you need to re-install!

There are four fixes which you need to manually configure:

  • 955138 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955138/ ) You experience slow performance or timeouts when you try to access some views in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

  • 955452 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955452/ ) Line feeds are not used when you send an e-mail message that uses an e-mail template to render data that has line feeds in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

  • 955745 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955745/ ) Error message when you try to configure the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 client for Outlook: "This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms"

  • 956527 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956527/ ) The Microsoft Dynamics CRM client for Outlook consumes three times as much memory in version 4.0 as in version 3.0

  • Thanks to Menno for the heads up.