Ahhh! Another slightly hidden pain relief valve in the new CRM 2011. If you are like me, you found that in CRM 4.0 the Workflow logs were wonderful, they showed you everything that happen and gave you links to items updated or created. It was wonderful…….UNTIL……. The database filled up. I still remember one of my clients that used a lot of workflows and they called me in a panic because they had 2.5 million workflow logs and it was taking up 70GB of space in their SQL database. OUCH! Needless to say that was fun. Then Microsoft came out with the roll up that allow you to delete all completed workflows (You needed to manually enable this and we did for all of our clients). This left another issue; sometimes you need those logs, especially when you are testing workflows. Now we had to stop the workflows in error to keep the logs..
Well, now in CRM 2011, when you create a workflow or dialog on the administration tab way down at the bottom of the page is a new check box that will purge the completed workflow logs automatically. YIPPIE!
