MS CRM 4.0 Timeout Issue - Timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation

Error: "The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding"

You can come across the timeout issue in MS CRM in one of the following scenarios:

1. when installing the update rollup for MS CRM

2. when importing the customization files

3. when running advanced find query that runs more than the expected time to get the results 

4. when importing New Organization

By default, the oledb timeout is set to 30 seconds in MS CRM. It is obvious to increase this value to meet your requirements. To accomplish this, you can modify the OLEDBTimeout and ExtendedTimeout values which is briefly described in the below article:

Increase MS CRM Timeout