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Hello, one challenge on a CRM project is explaining why certain changes in CRM are "unsupported." My general explanation of this concept is that unsupported changes are not guaranteed to work and may break on a future rollup. Do you have a more articulate or complete explanation of what "unsupported customization" means in CRM? Also, do you have a good url that you have found useful to forward to people who challenge the concept of an "unsupported customization"?

I remember when I first started working on CRM I hid a ribbon button using jQuery and a more experienced CRM developer told me that change was unsupported. My logic was that clearly the change worked so wtf did he mean that the implementation was "unsupported". Of course, now I understand what that means and I have to explain this concept to others.

Based on my experience learning CRM I can understand why customers with a development background may challenge the concept of an implementation being "unsupported" in CRM so I'm trying to identify the best possible explanation and url reference that I can reuse to help others understand this concept.

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    I don't see why it's hard to understand or explain what unsupported changes are in CRM.

    The main problem with unsupported changes is there is no guarantee they will work in the future because it may use/reference some functionality that will change in the future.

    if your CRM instance has a problem and there are unsupported changes in the code Microsoft support will not help you because the unsupported changes may be the cause of the problems you are experiencing.

    finally when it comes to upgrading the solution, the unsupported changes may not work and could cause difficulties when upgrading.

    MVP writes about the dangers here

    gonzaloruizcrm.blogspot.co.uk/.../risks-of-unsupported-customizations-in.html

    The SDK contains what are supported and unsupported changes

    Unsupported changes in CRM 2013

    msdynamicscrmblog.wordpress.com/.../common-unsupported-customization-practices-in-dynamics-crm-2013

    supported and unsupported changes in CRM 2011

    msdn.microsoft.com/.../gg328350.aspx

    CRM 4 - unsupported customizations

    msdn.microsoft.com/.../bb928224.aspx

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    good url - thanks ben

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