Update Rollup 12 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Microsoft has released Update Rollup 12 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM.  Update Rollup 12 is a cumulative update including all updates in the previous 11 Update Rollups, as well as many new fixes.  As usual, we recommend only installing the Update Rollup if you are having any issues resolved by it. 

Read the knowledge base article here and you can download the update here.

Keep in mind that if you are updating the Outlook client, Update Rollup 7 is a prerequisite.  On the server, you do not have to have any prior updates installed to install UR 12.  This update includes some fixes for email tracking, as well as the pesky "disappearing appointment" phenomenon.

From the Knowledge Base article, here is the list of fixes unique to update rollup 12:

• The Rule Deployment Wizard now supports Microsoft Exchange 2010.
• When you try to use Set Regarding feature in an email message to set a campaign to link to the email message, you receive the following error message: "An error has occurred".
• Assume that you create an appointment in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. When you update the appointment in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM client for Outlook, a duplicate appointment is created unexpectedly in the Outlook calendar of the recipients of your appointment.
• When you edit entity attributes in Microsoft Dynamics CRM on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 together with Windows Internet Explorer 8, the CPU usage is high.
• When you change column properties in the report Wizard in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, you receive a "script exception" error message in the Report Wizard. This problem occurs after you install Update Rollup 8 that contains the fix 10413 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.
• Email messages are not removed from the queue after the status of the email messages are programmatically set to Completed.
• When you import customizations, you receive an error message that indicates that a SQL exception has occurred. The error message resembles the following: "Exception: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: 'FilteredCampaignResponse' has fewer columns than were specified in the column list."
• After you add the SDKSerializeSendEmailAPI registry entry from the Microsoft knowledge base (KB) article 981053, email messages that are distributed through campaigns cannot be sent. For more information about hotfix 981053, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  981053   A workflow rule that contains a step to send an e-mail message causes a deadlock when many instances of the workflow are executed at the same time in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

• When you switch between subareas that were added by customizing a sitemap, Internet Explorer 8 or Internet Explorer 7 crashes.
• When you set the primary key of an entity by using a PreCreate plugin, the Duplicate Detection window returns a "Duplicate Found" error message if a duplicate record exists. The error message resembles the following:

  Error: Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown.
  
  Error Message: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
  
  Error Details: Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown.

• After appointments are tracked in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the appointments dissapear from the Outlook calendar of the user in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM client for Outlook.
• By default, the Record a closed campaign response check box is selected in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. After you apply update rollup 12,this check box will not be selected by default.
• The Quick Find feature is slow to perform searches because the query runs two times.
• When you view related data in Microsoft CRM Mobile, the data is not displayed if the data contains more than 30 characters.
• The Neglected Accounts report shows accounts that have recent activity.
• Duplicate records are not displayed when you edit records if the duplicate rule contains a lookup condition.
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM is now updated to be compatible with the update that is described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article: 981793 May 2010 cumulative time zone update for Windows operating systems 
• Assume that you customize the length of the address fields on a lead entity to a value that is greater than the default length. When you save the record, you receive an error message that resembles the following:

  Error: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
  
  Error Message: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
  
  Source File: Not available
  
  Line Number: Not available
  
  Request URL: URL
  
  Stack Trace Info: [SqlException: String or binary data would be truncated.The statement has been terminated.

• After you send email messages to a queue in Microsoft Dynamics CRM by using the POP3 protocol together with a text format, the "Unicode (UTF-8)" encoding option, and the MIME format that uses the "None" encoding text, the email activity content is not readable in the queue in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. 
• When you run a report that is created by using the Report Wizard, you receive the following error message: "Query execution failed for data set DSMain."
• When you install the Microsoft Dynamics CRM client for Outlook together with Microsoft Office 2010 on a computer, and then you apply Update Rollup 11, you notice that the ISV buttons and menus do not appear on the Office Ribbon.
• Outlook crashes after the CRM synchronization fails when you use the Czech version of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM client for Outlook.