Microsoft Schedules More Frequent Updates with Its Newest Rollup for Dynamics CRM 4.0

In announcing the latest fixes and hotfixes now available for Dynamics CRM 4.0, Microsoft also said it will release updates for the product every two months.  

The latest update, Rollup 2, came out earlier this month. It includes over 100 fixes and is a cumulative rollup of the fixes from Rollup 1, which became available in November 2008. This means Rollup 2 includes all the fixes from Rollup 1 and new fixes, too. The rollups are for Dynamics CRM 4.0 and Dynamics CRM Service Provider Editions only; Dynamics CRM Online installs updates automatically.

According to the Microsoft Team Blog, Update Rollup 3 is scheduled for mid-March. While Microsoft will release most of its updates only in these rollups, it will still release critical on-demand fixes for issues that need to be resolved "quicker than an 8-week schedule."

CRM bloggers seem to be pleased with the new update schedule that offers more consistency and allows for more testing and deployment of the hotfixes.

"I was surprised (pleasantly) to see another rollup released so soon. Update Rollup 1 came out back on November 24 (less than 2 months ago). I guess that means that the CRM team has been hard at work cranking out fixes," writes Dan Blake in his CRM Architect and Business blog.

Update Rollup 2 includes several new hotfixes and previously undocumented issues, according to Blake.

"There are a lot of fixes for the Outlook client and for workflows," he writes in his blog.

Blake chose his top 20 list of fixes from issues involving Outlook Client, data imports, workflows and asynch service, and customization.

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