CRM WebUI & IE9

[former_member703661]

Does anyone when IE9 would be supported for CRM WebUI (v7)?

[CarstenKasper]

I fear I can only concur with Stephen. As for IE8 it is officially supported from CRM7 EHP1 and onwards. For all I see EHP1 is still in ramp up and not publicly available. On this base I would probably estimate middle of 2012 for an official "Supported by SAP".

For all those people yelling "I work with IE8 on CRM 6": Yes, you can do that. With some of the later SPs SAP adjusted their code to put IE8 automatically to "compatibility mode". But for the "real" IE8 it still is not supported.

Just a remark: A colleague of mine started working with IE9 on a CRM7 EHP1 lately. Some of the fields in the e-mail view (BT126H_MAIL) are off. Seems to be an issue with the JavaScript used in there. The rest seems quite fine. Did not have the chance to try myself by now.

On another note: Firefox 4 is performing like a beast. On a good server it makes me feel as if I am running a local application. (And it got resizing text boxes )

cheers Carsten

[VishnAndr]

It's already supported. Just use final release, but not any release candidates. Also SAP GUI officialy supported IE9 from its final version, not release candidates. See note 66971:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
As of patchlevel 5 SAP GUI for Windows 7.20 is released for the final version of Internet Explorer 9 published by Microsoft in March 2011.
Please note that the RC (release candidate) version published by Microsoft in February 2011 contains a severe bug that causes a SAP GUI crash whenever an HTML control is invoked. Therefore this version may not be used. If you are using the RC version please update to the final version.

[stephenjohannes]

Actually the answer is no in terms of it being supported right now. That's the SAP GUI, which is not used by SAP CRM for end-users on newer releases.

To review supported browsers for SAP CRM, you need to use the PAM

http://service.sap.com/pam

Your guess is as good as mine in terms of IE9 support. Now if I were to place a bet on this I would expect that IE9 support would start showing up for SAP CRM in late 2012. Keep in mind that this all pure speculation and based on previous history on how long IE8 took to get supported by the SAP CRM Webclient. Normally it takes about one year after a browser has been released for that browser release to get supported based on what happened with IE8.

Take care,

Stephen