Update Rollup 7 Released

Lucky number 7s: Microsoft released the much-anticipated Update Rollup 7 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 (UR7) on Friday, the same day Windows 7 was released to the public.

UR7 focuses on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Outlook client and there are significant improvements to performance, stability and installation in both the online and offline Outlook clients.  Here are some highlights:

• Faster startup. The load process was streamlined so that the CRM client loads in the background – so you can access e-mail and other Outlook records while the CRM client loads.
• Improved performance. There are a few big changes here:
1. Unnecessary processes were removed for the online version of the Outlook client, resulting in faster performance.
2. E-mail tagging runs as a background process, so users who have a large number of tracked e-mail messages should see faster performance in Outlook.
3. Synchronization between Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Outlook runs as a background process to minimize the impact on performance.
• Improved stability. Some code updates help Microsoft Dynamics CRM handle state changes more efficiently, so authentication, hibernation and other changes in each client won't require you to restart Outlook.
• Delegate support. If an Outlook user is a delegate for another user, the delegate can now track e-mails and other Outlook records in the other user's inbox, so records are attached to the correct owner in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
• Improved SMS support, including silent, unattended installations of the Outlook client. Users no longer need to be logged into the workstation during the laptop client installation process.
• Better error logging in the synchronization process.
• Streamlined setup and configuration processes.

Download UR7 now – As always, try it in a test environment before going live in production if you can. Also, before installing UR7 in your environment, check the known issues published by Microsoft. Note that UR7 is inclusive of the previous Dynamics CRM 4.0 rollups released by Microsoft, so if you have not updated your system recently, all released fixes will be applied with UR7.