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Tooltips are little help messages explaning a field or label (if you hover over a label you will notice a tooltip), I had a requirenment for adding a tooltip to a custom field with some custom help text.

After some digging through i found out the correct JScript property and method:

crmForm.all.my_custom_attribute_c.title = “Add a value here and it should get automatically populated..”;

End Result:

MSCRM-Admin CRM 4.0, Customizations, JavaScript crm 4, custom field, jscript, title, tooltips

Hello all,

I am going to post all the current rollup packs that microsoft has put up on their download site.

Update Rollup 1:

KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/Kb/952858

Download lInk: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=57c6267b-3b13-49dd-bfed-3cc83633aea7

Update Rollup 2:

KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959419

Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=aa671769-61e9-45c4-919f-c88199aa4241

Update Rollup 3:

KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961768

Download Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=05453fa4-9551-4a88-9852-634a9ad0e140

Update Rollup 4:

KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968176

Download Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0ddf8e83-5d9c-4fe7-9ae6-f2713a024071

Update Rollup 5:

KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970141

Download Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5101d801-976b-4c11-bdfc-000b970ef4a3

MSCRM-Admin CRM 4.0, Deployment 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, bug fix, crm 4, kb article, update rollup

Gday all,

We had recently powered off our CRM 4.0 server (IFD deployment) due to some urgent maintenance.

We powered on the server, waited for it load and then tried to login and got the wonderful ASP .Net error “Server Error in ‘/’ Application” - i though crap.. what’s going on here..

Looked through the event log and found the ASP .Net exception and it said something about the ASYNC service not running or responding..

I quickly started the services management console and saw that the Microsoft CRM Async Service wasn’t started event though it’s in automatic startup mode..

I started the service and issued an ‘IISRESET’ and everything was back to normal.

Something strange is going on and i will have to investigate..

MSCRM-Admin CRM 4.0 asp .net error, crm 4, IFD, login error, server error, server error in / application

Hello all,

Take the following actions:

• Setup a new CRM server and choose the ‘connect to an existing deployment’ and choose the SQL server and reporting server
• Once that’s online, test that it is working and make some changes (you should see them on your old system)
• Lets assume that your deployment is sitting at CRM.MSCRMBLOG.NET all we do now is add a new A record pointing to the new CRM server’s ip address. It should resolve to 69.XX.XX.XX & 70.XX.XX.XX

That easy huh!

MSCRM-Admin CRM 4.0, Deployment 2 crm server, 2 servers, crm 4, failover, live deployment