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One of the biggest issues I have found with using authentication methods like Kerberos Constrained Delegation is that the first person who hits the site in the morning gets a 500 error until the website application pools have been rebuilt after their nightly recycle.  Recently I discovered a great module for IIS that can help prevent this. http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/application-initialization "IIS Application Initialization for IIS 7.5 enables website administrators to improve the responsiveness of their Web sites by loading the Web applications before the first request arrives. By proactively loading and initializing all the dependencies such as database connections, compilation of ASP.NET code, and loading of modules, IT Professionals can ensure their Web sites are responsive at all times even if their Web sites use a custom request pipeline or if the Application Pool is recycled. While an application is being initialized, IIS can also be configured to return an ...

This script will give you the times for CRM import jobs that have been run on your system. --Shows all import records and the amount of time they took SELECT [Name], [StartedOn], [CompletedOn], DATEDIFF(MINUTE, [StartedOn], [CompletedOn]) AS [Diff In Minutes] FROM [Default_MSCRM].[dbo].[AsyncOperationBase] WHERE OperationType IN (3,4,5) --OperationType 3,4,5 are the ones which relate to imports --Shows total number of minutes for all imports SELECT SUM(DATEDIFF(MINUTE, [StartedOn], [CompletedOn])) AS [Total Diff In Minutes] FROM [Default_MSCRM].[dbo].[AsyncOperationBase] WHERE OperationType IN (3,4,5) --Shows total number of hours for all imports SELECT SUM(DATEDIFF(MINUTE, [StartedOn], [CompletedOn])) /60 AS [Total Diff In Hours] FROM [Default_MSCRM].[dbo].[AsyncOperationBase] WHERE OperationType IN (3,4,5)

SSIS can sometimes take a long time to load.  Try messing witht he DefaultBufferMaxRows setting in the package.  In a first attempt on one table changing the setting from 10,000 (the default) to 1,000 saved me about 15 minutes off my run time. Thanks to Jamie Thomson for posting this info: http://consultingblogs.emc.com/jamiethomson/archive/2007/12/18/SSIS_3A00_-A-performance-tuning-success-story.aspx