Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 on Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008

We are proud to announce that Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have been released to manufacturing and will be available for customers from October 22nd 2009. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 will be fully supported on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 from the time they are released.

I am running Windows 7 on my primary laptop and am very pleased with this release. Windows 7 introduces a bunch of new productivity features that I’m quickly becoming reliant upon. Some of these features will make working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 even easier.

Cheers,

Reuben Krippner



Published Friday, September 18, 2009 10:12 AM by crmblog

Comment Notification

If you would like to receive an email when updates are made to this post, please register here

Subscribe to this post's comments using RSS

Comments

# re: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 on Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008

Is there going to be a patch before October 22 then, as I am also using windows & and find that if you create a new advanced find with a filter on a picklist value, when you try to select the picklist value that page hangs and you can not contune.

Monday, September 21, 2009 5:46 AM by Rob

# re: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 on Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008

Rob, my team attempted to repro with our current UR7 build and was unable to.  There are some small fixes in UR7 to improve compatibility with Win7 and we continue to do testing.  UR7 will be released on 10/22 and if you still experience this problem (hopefully not), please contact Microsoft Support immediately and ask them to escalate the issue to the Sustained Engineering team.  You can reference this comment when you talk to them.  Regards, Bryan Cooke - CRM SE Group Manager

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 12:28 PM by Bryan Cooke

# re: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 on Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008

Thanks for getting back to me. I will test it with UR7 once it comes out, but if you want to test, the steps I do to reproduce the error are.

1. Open CRM website (I do not have the CRM Outlook client installed)

2. Go to activities

3. Click Advanced Find

4. On 'Use Saved View', select '[new]'

5. on 'Select' select 'Activity Status'

6. Click the ... button by Enter Value

7. Add Open to the select values

8. Click OK

At this point the value is not added, and you can not click Find.

As I said, I will try this once UR7 comes out and contact support if the issue is still there. At the moment it is not a major issue as none of our clients yet have windows 7.

Thursday, September 24, 2009 6:13 AM by Rob

# re: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 on Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008

Is it supported running virtualized either on HyperV R2 or VMWare?

Monday, September 28, 2009 3:30 PM by Luis

# re: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 on Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008

Hi,

I have the rtm version of Windows 7 installed and all updates. I also have Outlook 2007 SP2 installed with the Outlook plugin for Dynamics and rollup 5 installed.  The only bit I cant get to work is the saving of the info for login in the user admin section of control panel. It seems to be installed, but doenst keep the settings and CRm keeps asking me for my password.

- Ade

Friday, October 02, 2009 8:54 AM by Adrian Glasgow

# re: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 on Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008

I haven't been able to install CRM on Win7 yet because it always complains that I don't have Visual C++ runtime installed.  I've installed every version of it I can find, but it still won't recognize it.

Any ideas?

Friday, October 09, 2009 1:17 PM by RC

# re: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 on Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008

re Rob's post September 24, 2009 6:13

Bryan

I too have the problem using windows 7 / IE8. If you mouseover after selecting the picklist value from the dialog it does show the selected attribute value and Find is activated - but still fails as Rob says.

Oddly this doesn't reproduce when wanting to edit the default filter in Advanced Find saved views - only a [new] one. Try editing the default Open Leads status attribute to Disqualified from Open and it works fine.

This also cures the problem for other saved views (system or [new] custom ones) and you can create a [new] view with picklist attribute filtering happily thereafter.

Is there a ticket out on this already, if not we'll raise one.

Cheers

Friday, October 09, 2009 5:36 PM by Rob Dawson

# re: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 on Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008

So, if I install CRM 4.0 on Win 2008 R2 today, it should work and it will be supported if I run in to any issues today or will it actually be supported with the release of UR 7

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:45 AM by Rob

# re: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 on Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008

Speaking of upcoming releases I am assuming as WebDAV has been depreciated in Exchange 2010 there will be advice and/or a technical solution to allow CRM 4.0 to work with Exchange 2010?

Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:29 AM by Luke Maslany

# re: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 on Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008

I'm running CRM 4.0 with Rollup 5 on Windows 7. I also have Outlook 2007 and I'm having problems with the Outlook plugin. Everytime I open a Service Case, I get the following error message:

A Microsoft Dynamics CRM window was unable to open, and may have been blocked by a popup blocker. Please add this Microsoft CRM server to the list of sites your pop-up blocker allows to open a new window: <server name>.

The strange thing is the window opens fine, but the error message is still quite annoying. Adding the server to the popup blockers allow list doesn't help

Friday, October 30, 2009 12:32 AM by Kristofer

# re: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 on Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008

I am running on Windows 7 and IE 8 and CRM will not open new windows when I select links.  I added the server to the list of trusted sites, but still get this error 'A Microsoft Dynamics CRM window was unable to open, and may have been blocked by a popup blocker. Please add this Microsoft CRM server to the list of sites your pop-up blocker allows to open a new window: <server name>'.  I've tried disabling protected mode and all sorts of other things and nothing seems to work.  Oddly enough, the only workaround we have is using Firefox with the IE Tab add-on and then running CRM in Firefox rendering it using the IE engine.

Friday, November 06, 2009 7:31 PM by Rob

# re: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 on Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008

I had this issue as well and it turns out you need to go to Tools>I.Net options>Security>Trusted sites and put a tick in Enable Protected Mode and it allows the window to open without the error message. Hope this helps

Friday, November 27, 2009 7:31 AM by Bernaaard

Leave a Comment

(required) 
required 
(required) 

  
Enter Code Here: Required
 
Page view tracker