Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Outlook is unable to render webpages after installing the October 2017 Microsoft Outlook security update

When attempting to render webpages via the Outlook folder pane using the Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Microsoft Outlook add-in (Outlook client), the view pane remains blank and "Waiting for a page to be retrieved from a CRM server..." displays. The pane never loads the corresponding webpage.

The Dynamics 365 for Outlook add-in relies on customized roaming home pages in order to render webpages within Outlook. The October 2017 Microsoft Outlook security update disables roaming home pages in Outlook to address a significant vulnerability with the application, and as such, inadvertently causes the add-in to fail.

More information on why this issue is occuring can be found at the following article from Outlook:

Outlook Home Page feature is missing in folder properties

All versions of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Microsoft Outlook add-in family are affected by this issue. This includes Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 for Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 for Microsoft Office Outlook, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 for Microsoft Office Outlook.

This also affects all versions of the Dynamics 365/ CRM organization that the add-in is connecting to.

The Outlook Security update versioning information is found below:

Security Update for Microsoft Outlook 2010 (KB4011089) 32-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Outlook 2010 (KB4011089) 64-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Outlook 2010 (KB4011196) 32-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Outlook 2010 (KB4011196) 64-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Outlook 2013 (KB4011178) 32-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Outlook 2013 (KB4011178) 64-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Outlook 2016 (KB4011162) 32-Bit Edition
Security Update for Microsoft Outlook 2016 (KB4011162) 64-Bit Edition

Any future cumulative Outlook updates will contain these Security Updates and will cause this issue to occur, such as the following updates:

Update for Microsoft Outlook 2013 (KB4011252) 32-Bit Edition
Update for Microsoft Outlook 2013 (KB4011252) 64-Bit Edition
Update for Microsoft Outlook 2016 (KB4011240) 32-Bit Edition
Update for Microsoft Outlook 2016 (KB4011240) 64-Bit Edition
 

For Click-to-Run installations of Office Outlook, this issue has been resolved in the monthly channel released in early March, 2018. Ensure that you have the most recent update for Office Outlook:

How to install the latest applicable updates for Microsoft Outlook

For MSI installations of Office Outlook, this is resolved in the August 14th, 2018 security updates for Microsoft Office Outlook 2010, 2013 and 2016:

Security update for Outlook 2010: August 14, 2018 KB4032222
Security update for Outlook 2013: August 14, 2018 KB4032240
Security update for Outlook 2016: August 14, 2018 KB4032235

Installing the update above that matches your MSI version of Office Outlook will cause pages to be correctly displayed.

This issue has similar symptoms to an issue occurring for Click-to-Run Office installations due to an August 2018 Office Insider update. More information on this issue can be found at the following location:

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Outlook is unable to render webpages after installing August 2018 Office Insider Update

More information on this Security Update can be found at the following links:

List of Microsoft Outlook Security Updates
Microsoft Outlook documentation regarding this issue