i have crm 1.2 installed. i did 6 columns addition to Account form.
however i was trying to install CRM 3.0 today and during upgrade
installation failed with following message.


11:39:53| Info| Microsoft CRM 3.0 Server Setup Failed.
11:39:53| Info| Microsoft CRM 3.0 Server Setup Setup did not complete
successfully.

==================================================
Action Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Server.InstallDatabaseAction failed.
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
The object 'DF_AccountBase_SecurityDescriptor' is dependent on column
'SecurityDescriptor'.
ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN SecurityDescriptor failed because one or more
objects access this column.
==================================================

please help in upgrade process, if there is any hidden or un documented
things which i should take care before upgrade.

Re: Error in CRM Upgrade - URGENT by Joe

Joe
Tue May 30 11:23:15 CDT 2006

Looks like someone added a default constraing to the SecurityDescriptor
column in the AccountBase table. This does not exist in a default 1.2
installation, so the the 3.0 upgrade does not know to drop the constraint
before dropping the column. Manually drop the constraint then retry the
upgrade.


"BizWorld" <moonis.tahir@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>i have crm 1.2 installed. i did 6 columns addition to Account form.
> however i was trying to install CRM 3.0 today and during upgrade
> installation failed with following message.
>
>
> 11:39:53| Info| Microsoft CRM 3.0 Server Setup Failed.
> 11:39:53| Info| Microsoft CRM 3.0 Server Setup Setup did not complete
> successfully.
>
> ==================================================
> Action Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Server.InstallDatabaseAction failed.
> Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
> The object 'DF_AccountBase_SecurityDescriptor' is dependent on column
> 'SecurityDescriptor'.
> ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN SecurityDescriptor failed because one or more
> objects access this column.
> ==================================================
>
> please help in upgrade process, if there is any hidden or un documented
> things which i should take care before upgrade.
>