A co-worker of mine was testing a CRM 2011 On Premise implementation where he had recently updated to rollup 12/13. He started to notice that the ribbon bar was completely missing!blankribbonbar

 

 

 

 

 

 

My first response was to clean out your cache, and try it from another machine, as well as use the IE Private Browsing Session. The IE private browsing session did help resolve the problem, but this was not the solution.

In reviewing some issues further, we found a blog from Ben Klopfer about a similar issue. Ben reported the permanent fix is:

Log in to CRM as an administrator.

  1. Go to Settings > Administration.
  2. Click System Settings.
  3. On the “Customizations” tab, uncheck Load pages in the most recent version of Internet Explorer.

After making the change, Ben’s fix works great and the ribbon bar is now available. Ben’s original blog can be found here: http://thinketg.com/dynamics-crm-2011-ru-12-blank-ribbon-issue-resolution/. Thanks Ben!