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Comment on AutoUpdate feature for deploying Microsoft CRM 4.0 Rollup patches to Microsoft CRM for Outlook clients by pgernburd

pgernburd — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:12:19 +0000

Yvan,

Thanks for posting. You may want to carefully review your clientupdate configuration file that you pushed out (with specific reference to the patchid and linkid which you can grab from the MSFT KB article for each Rollup), and push the patch out again. If you need to undo what you’ve already deployed, read Part II of the article series: http://blogs.salentica.com/pgernburd/2009/10/31/removing-autoupdate-patch/

If you’re still having issues, write back and we can take a further look.

Comment on AutoUpdate feature for deploying Microsoft CRM 4.0 Rollup patches to Microsoft CRM for Outlook clients by pgernburd

pgernburd — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:06:12 +0000

Neil,

You’re absolutely right, and we’ve seen this concern come up with several of our clients too. Hopefully we’ll see some improvements/changes in the way these updates can be deployed.

Comment on AutoUpdate feature for deploying Microsoft CRM 4.0 Rollup patches to Microsoft CRM for Outlook clients by Yvan

Yvan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:40:11 +0000

After installing and restarting, when I click “Check Updates” it is still reporting as “Not Installed”.

What could be the cause?

Comment on AutoUpdate feature for deploying Microsoft CRM 4.0 Rollup patches to Microsoft CRM for Outlook clients by Neil Benson

Neil Benson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:09:11 +0000

Thanks Peter, but unfortunately most organizations with 100 or so users have an IT organisation that follow Microsoft’s best practices and DENY users local administrator rights. (Quite right too!).

This makes it impossible to AutoUpdate CRM for most organizations, and really only works in small companies where users are much more likely to have local admin rights.

Comment on AutoUpdate feature for deploying Microsoft CRM 4.0 Rollup patches to Microsoft CRM for Outlook clients by Removing AutoUpdate patch | Peter Gernburd's MSCRM Corner

Removing AutoUpdate patch | Peter Gernburd's MSCRM Corner — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:27:25 +0000

[...] our earlier article on using the Auto Update feature to update CRM for Outlook clients, this article dives into the process for removing a patch that [...]

Comment on AutoUpdate feature for deploying Microsoft CRM 4.0 Rollup patches to Microsoft CRM for Outlook clients by pgernburd

pgernburd — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:26:16 +0000

Thanks alot for your comments Corbett, and the link to the related article. Glad you enjoyed the read.

I did notice the inconsistency as well – and have updated the post to benefit others. Thanks for the tip!

Comment on AutoUpdate feature for deploying Microsoft CRM 4.0 Rollup patches to Microsoft CRM for Outlook clients by Corbett

Corbett — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:26:03 +0000

Your article is good, I like the screenshots. There does seem to be an inconsistency. In your example, you set the LinkId to “162439&clcid=0×40″ which implies your CRM clients are going to download the patch from the Internet. Since that is the case, do you really need to extract the patch to the CRM server? I thought you only do that when your clients are set to download the patch from an alternate (non-default) location. This is a good related article: http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2008/05/08/crm-client-autoupdate.aspx