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Update Rollup 12 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Joins Withdrawn List Due to Potential Database Issues

by Jason Gumpert
Editor, MSDynamicsWorld.com

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Update Rollup 12 (UR12), which was readied for availability on January 10 and made available on January 12, has been withdrawn by Microsoft, citing "an issue that could potentially impact a customer's database". 

Writing in a blog post on the Microsoft Dynamics community site, CVP for Dynamics CRM Bob Stutz explained that an issue discovered in the "UR12 Server bits" could impact customer databases, so the software download was removed from the Microsoft Download Center.

A new version of UR12 will be made available within the week, according to Stutz.

Dynamics CRM forum members discussed the missing server software for UR 12 on Friday, January 11.  One person notes that she downloaded it on the 9th, discovered issues, and saw that it had been pulled down soon after:

"I grabbed the server component around 10:00 PM eastern on the 9th, and they pulled it down about an hour later. I installed it in my environment and it had a few bugs, maybe MS pulled it down and are frantically fixing?"

Another forum member puzzled over the lack of communication on the missing software:

"Seems wierd [sic] that they were there one moment and gone the next.  Always amazes me that there's multiple posts when it's released, but nothing but silence when it gets pulled.  SImilar to UR 10 and UR 11 which both had V2's (and niether [...

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Prior to co-founding MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jason was a Principal Software Consultant at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), where he implemented solutions, trained customers, managed software development, and spent some time in the pre-sales engineering organization. He has also held consulting positions at CSC Consulting and Monitor Group.

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