upgrade issues occur because a roll back and reinstall of Microsoft Dynamics CRM will be required to avoid potential downtime. For detailed procedures for each of options, see the Upgrade from Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 topics in the Installing Guide. For the latest product information, see the . Important Always run a full backup of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM databases before you upgrade to a new version of the product. For information about database backups, see in the Operating and Maintaining Guide. During an in-place upgrade, only the organization that you specify to upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is upgraded. If the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 deployment contains additional organizations, those organizations are disabled and are not upgraded. You must upgrade those organizations using Deployment Manager. For more information, see Deployment Manager Help. For each organization that you upgrade, we recommend that the volume have free space that is at least three times the size of the organization database file (organizationName_MSCRM.mdf) and four times the size of the log file (organizationName_MSCRM.ldf). For example, if a single organization database and log file are located on the same volume where the mdf file is 326 MB and the ldf file is 56 MB, the recommended available space should be at least 1.2 GB to allow for growth ((326 x 3) + (56 x 4)). Notice that the database files that expand during upgrade do not reduce in size after the upgrade is complete. As part of organization upgrade, all entitynameBase and entitynameExtensionBase tables will be merged into a single table. To reduce downtime, consider deferring the table merge of large organization databases that are highly customized so that the table merge process can be run as a separate upgrade operation. For more information, see Run the Base and Extension table merge as a separate operation. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Server versions supported for upgrade The following Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 update rollup versions are supported for upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server 2013. All other update rollup versions will receive an error message resembling the following and will not be upgraded.
upgrade issues occur because a roll back and reinstall of Microsoft Dynamics CRM will be required to avoid potential downtime. For detailed procedures for each of options, see the Upgrade from Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 topics in the Installing Guide. For the latest product information, see the . Important Always run a full backup of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM databases before you upgrade to a new version of the product. For information about database backups, see in the Operating and Maintaining Guide. During an in-place upgrade, only the organization that you specify to upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 is upgraded. If the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 deployment contains additional organizations, those organizations are disabled and are not upgraded. You must upgrade those organizations using Deployment Manager. For more information, see Deployment Manager Help. For each organization that you upgrade, we recommend that the volume have free space that is at least three times the size of the organization database file (organizationName_MSCRM.mdf) and four times the size of the log file (organizationName_MSCRM.ldf). For example, if a single organization database and log file are located on the same volume where the mdf file is 326 MB and the ldf file is 56 MB, the recommended available space should be at least 1.2 GB to allow for growth ((326 x 3) + (56 x 4)). Notice that the database files that expand during upgrade do not reduce in size after the upgrade is complete. As part of organization upgrade, all entitynameBase and entitynameExtensionBase tables will be merged into a single table. To reduce downtime, consider deferring the table merge of large organization databases that are highly customized so that the table merge process can be run as a separate upgrade operation. For more information, see Run the Base and Extension table merge as a separate operation. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Server versions supported for upgrade The following Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 update rollup versions are supported for upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server 2013. All other update rollup versions will receive an error message resembling the following and will not be upgraded.
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