Dynamics CRM 2011 Bulk Update

Question

Running Dynamics CRM 2011 rollout 3. Need to update millions of customer records periodically (delta updates). Using standard update (one by one) takes a few weeks. Also we don\

Answer 1

I realize this is an old question but it comes up high on "CRM Bulk Update" so the Update Rollup 12 feature ExecuteMultiple needs to be mentioned here -- its not going to work around your issue (massive volume) because as iFirefly and Peter point out CRM does everything one at a time. What it does do is package all your requests into a single envelope letting CRM handle the execution of each update and reduce the number of round trips between your app and the server if you do end up issuing an Update request for every record.