Error message when you try to merge two accounts or two contacts in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0: "There is a problem communicating with the Microsoft CRM server"

When you try to merge two accounts or two contacts in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, you receive the following error message: This problem occurs if one of the accounts or one of the contacts is the customer or the billing customer on a contract that has multiple line items.

You may receive a similar error message when you do the following actions:

• You change the customer on a contract that has multiple line items.
• You add a parent account to an account that is the customer on a contract that has multiple line items.
• You add a parent account to a contact that is the customer on a contract that has multiple line items .

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0

This problem is fixed in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Update Rollup 1. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, Japanese or Chinese version

This problem is fixed in Update Rollup 2 for the Chinese Simplified version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 and in the Japanese version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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