Updating Icons blows up Auditing?

UPDATE: Apparently this is a known function in CRM, except it doesn't make sense that it happens when you are updating Icons.  

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I've been working for the past few weeks on the upgrade of a CRM v2011 instance to a v2015 instance.

One thing I noticed in CRM 2015 is that all of the icon images are flat and typically a monochromatic color.  Usually they are a Shade of Grey... the color, not the book/movie.  :)

So working with a colleague of mine, I asked him to make up some nice monochromatic icons to represent the 2 dozen or so custom entities we have.  He made up some nice icon files in 16x16 and 32x32 format, and to save time I asked him to go ahead and update the icons in our 2011 instance so we don't have to go through and do it during the final upgrade process.

Then a few hours later I get a Lync message from a CRM user asking what's happened to the Audit logs for a record?

My reply was... Huh?  Nothing that I know of?

So I check the record, and lo and behold, all the new value entries on the audit log are missing, replaced by an strange icon image indicating that it's not there.

After the Icons were updated...

I'm stumped...  I can see an entry where auditing was turned off, and it turned out that was when the icons were updated. It decided to turn off the auditing for a moment, and then back on, which caused this problem.  I can easily reproduce it over and over.

Anything updated after this time is fine, and gets audited properly.

So I did a search and the only thing I could find was this Forum post.  It's not exactly the same thing because they were intentionally turning auditing off and back on, but the result was the same.  All the 'new value' entries are messed up.

FYI... this problem also occurs in a totally clean, not upgraded, on-premise instance of CRM 2015 as well.  

I also updated my CRM 2011 to UR 18, just to be sure that this wasn't fixed in an update release.

I have opened a support case with Microsoft to see if they are aware of this issue, and if there is a fix.  I will update this blog entry if I get a fix.

Visual Studio (VS) 2013 and CRM Explorer

I ran into this problem today after I needed to change the CRM URL on the Dev Server I am working with CRM 2015 on.

I had previously created both a Plugin project and a Web Resources project and used the CRM Explorer to browse these to extract items, setup new Plugin Steps, etc.

I was tweakign the CRM Dev server and discovered that I needed to modify the URL for the server in the Deployment Manager.

After doing so, my Visual Studio project stopped working correctly, and the CRM explorer would throw an error about 

"No Organization has been specified"

Did some searching and came across this forum post.

I figured it out: informations about CRM Server are stored in *.suo file. I just deleted this file, opened my solution in VS and entered all informations for CRM Server connection. The suo file was regenerated automatically and I can work now with my CRM solution

The answer was the *.suo file in the same directory as the VS solution file.  While the solution is closed, just delete or rename that file.  When you re-load Visual Studio next time, you may still see the error, but you can then reconnect to the new CRM server or URL.