You my find it on my Free Utilities page.

Microsoft has release a fix for a security vulnerability identified at a security conference yesterday.  Since Microsoft Dynamics CRM is an ASP.NET application, any servers running CRM could be affected.

Here is a summary of the issue from the above site. Please review Microsoft's recommendations and formulate a plan of action that makes sense for your organization.

General Information

Executive Summary

This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability and three privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft .NET Framework. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an unauthenticated attacker sends a specially crafted web request to the target site. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take any action in the context of an existing account on the ASP.NET site, including executing arbitrary commands. In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must be able to register an account on the ASP.NET site, and must know an existing user name.

This security update is rated Critical for Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1, Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1, and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on all supported editions of Microsoft Windows. For more information, see the subsection, Affected and Non-Affected Software, in this section.

The security update addresses the vulnerabilities by correcting how the .NET Framework handles specially crafted requests, and how the ASP.NET Framework authenticates users and handles cached content. For more information about the vulnerabilities, see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) subsection for the specific vulnerability entry under the next section, Vulnerability Information.

This security update also addresses the vulnerability first described in Microsoft Security Advisory 2659883.

Recommendation. The majority of customers have automatic updating enabled and will not need to take any action because this security update will be downloaded and installed automatically. Customers who have not enabled automatic updating need to check for updates and install this update manually. For information about specific configuration options in automatic updating, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 294871.

For administrators and enterprise installations, or end users who want to install this security update manually, Microsoft recommends that customers consider applying the security update using update management software, or by checking for updates using the Microsoft Update service.

See also the section, Detection and Deployment Tools and Guidance, later in this bulletin.

Known Issues. Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 2638420 documents the currently known issues that customers may experience when installing this security update. The article also documents recommended solutions for these issues.

• Tip #1: Export your customizations
• Tip #2: Know your plugins
• Tip #3: Clean up the System Job and Workflow Job Tables
• Tip #4: Clean up old Synch table entries
• Tip #5: Remove unsupported database changes
• Tip #6: Clean up deleted records

The user interface is pretty simple:

Just enter the credentials of a system administrator-type user who has access to all of the organizations and it will collect information about any user who is:

1) Active

2) Has a full read/write license

Note: Even though it uses the CRM 4.0 connection to CRM, it still seems to work correctly on CRM 2011.

You may download it here.

More information can be found here:

http://blogs.infinite-x.net/2011/06/27/free-utility-released-export-crm-4-0-plugins/

This free utility can be found here:

http://blogs.infinite-x.net/free-utilities/

You may download them here:

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 User’s Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27134

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Administrator's Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27135

Announcing: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Implementation Guide update 5.2.0

There is a new update to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Implementation Guide! Please note that at this time the update will only be published to the TechNet and MSDN libraries.

Also published, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Performance Counters. This PDF doc is now available at the Download Center. It provides a descriptive list of the 488 CRM 2011 counters!

Summary of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Implementation Guide changes

We strive to keep the information in this documentation as current and accurate as we can. The below table lists the changes that have been made as part of this documentation update.

Guide	Topic	Type	Explanation
Planning	Plug-in registration verification	Addition	Added subtopic Plug-in registration verfication that suggests removing duplicate plug-in assembly registrations before upgrade.
Planning	Server roles	Addition	Appended 2 subtopics with tables that list the component prerequisites and group membership requirements for each Microsoft Dynamics CRM server role.
Planning	Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Mobile Express system requirements	Addition	Added a short topic that describes the system requirements for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Mobile Express.
Planning	Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 tracking tokens	Revision	Added text that explains upgraded organizations also have the tracking token feature turned on by default.
Planning	Securing SQL Server for use with Microsoft Dynamics CRM	Addition	Mentions that  the SQL Server Reporing Services RDL sandboxing feature must be implemented manually for on premises deployments of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Planning	SharePoint Document Management software requirements	Revision	Mentions that users who access the document management feature must have the appropriate permissions to the SharePoint site collection.
Installing	Test Access feature	Addition	Added new topic that explains how to troubleshoot issues that may occur when using the Email Router test access feature.
Installing	Disable the Get CRM for Outlook button that is displayed in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM web application	Addition	Added new topic that describes how to disable the Get CRM for Outlook button that is displayed in the Web browser.
Installing	Step 4: Create the generic service resource for the cluster	Revision	Added a note when you use a shared drive for the cluster.
Installing	Citrix XenApp	Revision	Replaced previously existing subtopic (Citrix Presentation Services) with Citrix XenApp compatability with Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook.
Operating and Maintaining	Move the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 deployment	Addition	Added new topic that describes how to move Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server components.
Operating and Maintaining	Setting Microsoft Dynamics CRM properties manually	Addition	Added new subtopic that describes setting Microsoft Dynamics CRM properties manually as a best practice.
Operating and Maintaining	Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 performance counters	Addition	Short topic that mentions the performance counters available in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and the link to download the list of all counters.

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Overview

The views, monitors, rules, and knowledge specific to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 that comprise this Monitoring Pack provide the means for System Center Operations Manager users to centrally manage the server application, its component services, and the computers on which they run. The Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 also contains monitoring for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 E-mail Router and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Reporting Extensions.
By managing these Microsoft Dynamics CRM components in System Center Operations Manager, the administrator can respond quickly to critical events and key performance indicators, and take action to prevent service outages, reduce the resolution time for alert conditions, and increase the overall availability and performance of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM system.

Feature Summary

• Monitors the availability and heath of the following components
  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server 2011
  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 E-mail Router
  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Reporting Extensions
• Monitors the availability and health of the following component services:
  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM Asynchronous Processing Service
  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM Asynchronous Processing Service (maintenance)
  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM Sandbox Processing Service
  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM E-mail Router Service
  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM Unzip Service
  • World Wide Web Publishing Service
  • Indexing Service
• Monitors the availability and health of the following application components and functionality:
  • Operability of ISV plug-ins
  • Web application requests processing, SOAP exceptions, and unexpected failures
• Monitors the performance metrics of the following components:
  • Web application requests processing
  • Database query processing
• Monitors the system for configuration-related failures.

System requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2

• Other Software:
  • System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 or System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (recommended)
  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server 2011

CRM Debug Information Page

Each CRM installation has an out-of-the box ASPX page that contains basic information regarding your CRM (verified for CRM 4.0 and CRM 2011) installation.

If you refer to the following URL:
http://ServerName:Port/OrgName/home/home_debug.aspx     (replace ServerName, Port and OrgName to reflect your installation)

You will receive information regarding DataSource, Component Version Numbers, OrganizationID, etc.

Greetings from the CRM team

How it works

The BulkDeleteRequest message will create a bulk delete job that will be automatically executed on a specified interval for a specified set of data.  The job will be executed by the CRM Asynchronous service.

Properties of interest

The following properties need to be set:

The code

string jobName = "Sample Bulk Delete";
int interval = 30;
string frequency =
    String.Format(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
                  "FREQ=DAILY;INTERVAL={0};", interval);
//
// Query for a system user to send an e-mail
// to after the bulk delete operation is completed.
//
WhoAmIRequest userRequest = new WhoAmIRequest();
WhoAmIResponse userResponse = (WhoAmIResponse)service.Execute(userRequest);
Guid currentUserId = userResponse.UserId;

QueryExpression query = new QueryExpression
{
    EntityName = "email",
    ColumnSet = new ColumnSet("activityid"),
    Criteria = new FilterExpression
    {
        Conditions =
{
    new ConditionExpression
    {
        AttributeName = "createdon",
        Operator = ConditionOperator.OlderThanXMonths,
        Values = { 1 }
    }
}
    }
};

BulkDeleteRequest bulkDeleteRequest =
    new BulkDeleteRequest { JobName = jobName,
                            QuerySet = new QueryExpression[] { query },
                            StartDateTime = DateTime.Now,
                            RecurrencePattern = frequency,
                            SendEmailNotification = true,
                            ToRecipients = new Guid[] { currentUserId },
                            CCRecipients = new Guid[] { } };

service.Execute(bulkDeleteRequest);

Additional Information

Unfortunately, once a bulk deletion job has been created, it can't be changed easily, if at all.  It's easier to just delete it and recreate it.

Here is how you can view your recurring system jobs from the CRM web interface:

1) Select Settings, Data Management.

2) Click Bulk Record Deletion.

3) Change your view to Recurring Deletion System Jobs.

References

BulkDeleteRequest Members