ascentium | 88 Miles Per Hour - Importing Organizations Faster with RU8

This one slipped past me the first I reviewed the Rollup Update 8 fix list.

You try to use Deployment Manager to import an organization to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. However, the Import Organization Wizard takes a long time to import the organization.

977867 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977867/) The Import Organization Wizard takes a long time to import an organization in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

By a “long time” they mean “Up to 10 minutes per user”. The following log gives you an idea:

17:29:00|Verbose| Adding new account {0}| ASCENTIUMCRM\CrmTestUser5
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17:29:00|Verbose| Update completed
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17:39:17|Verbose| Adding new account {0}| ASCENTIUMCRM\CrmTestUser6
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17:39:17 |Verbose| Update completed
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17:49:18|Verbose| Adding new account {0}| ASCENTIUMCRM\CrmTestUser7
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17:49:18|Verbose| Update completed

This is included in Rollup Update #8 and requires a manually set registry key to enable (HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MSCRM\OptimizeOrgImport). For anyone that has had to wait hours for CRM Deployment Manager to “import users” from an organization database import, this is hot fix should be a big help.

12:44:05|Verbose| Adding new account {0}| ASCENTIUMCRM\CrmTestUser1
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12:44:05|Verbose| Update completed
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12:44:05|Verbose| Adding new account {0}| ASCENTIUMCRM\CrmTestUser2
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12:44:05|Verbose| Update completed
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12:44:05|Verbose| Adding new account {0}| ASCENTIUMCRM\CrmTestUser3
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12:44:05|Verbose| Update completed

As you can see, what once took 20 minutes, took less than a second! (Great Scott!!!)

Unfortunately, this fix DOES NOT fix the slow “auto map” feature and the MMC plug-in could still time out the UI. While this error is not blocking, it does mean an “auto map” can take up to an hour for several hundred hours.

Cheers,

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