SharePoint 2010 - Unable to set audience using Internet Explorer 9 in global navigation

Issue
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Unable to set the audiences on the Global Navigation when using Internet Explorer 9 give an unexpected error has occurred.

When we try to set audiences on Global navigation (http://kyz.com/_layouts/AreaNavigationSettings.aspx ) for links it give us error as follows

 

 

Checked into ULS logs we are getting below error

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System.InvalidOperationException: Namespace prefix 'xsd' is not defined.  

 at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializationReader.ToXmlQualifiedName(String value, Boolean decodeName) 

 at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationReaderDictionaryEntryArray.Read1_Object(Boolean isNullable, Boolean checkType)   

 at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationReaderDictionaryEntryArray.Read2_DictionaryEntry(Boolean checkType)   

 at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationReaderDictionaryEntryArray.Read3_ArrayOfDictionaryEntry()

 

 

Solution

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This Issue has been fixed in April CU 2014 for SharePoint 2010.

 

Please make sure that you apply patch in Test or Dev enviroment to make sure it's no breaking anything else.