What is MS Dynamics CRM Solutions

A solution is a bucket where all the customization components of a particular project are stored. Solutions are how customizers and developers author, package, and maintain units of software that extend Microsoft Dynamics 365 (online & on-premises). Customizers and developers distribute solutions so that organizations can use Microsoft Dynamics 365 to install and uninstall the business functionality defined by the solution. There are three types of solutions:

1. System solution: The system solution represents the solution components defined within Microsoft Dynamics 365. Without any managed solutions or customizations, the system solution defines the default application behavior.

2. Managed Solution: A managed solution is a finalized solution that can be distributed and installed. They are created by exporting an unmanaged solution by setting restrictions to prevent any further customizations. Managed solutions are installed on top of the system solution and can modify any customizable solution components or add more solution components.

3. Unmanaged Customizations: All customizable solution components provided by the system solution or any managed solutions can be customized in the unmanaged customizations.

4. Unmanaged Solution: Unmanaged solutions are groups of unmanaged customizations. Any unmanaged customized solution component can be associated with any number of unmanaged solutions. The beginning state of solution is the unmanaged solution state. During this phase, it is possible to add, edit, update, remove, delete, and test any of the components of the solution.

Features:

1. Extensibility: Use solutions to extend the capability of Microsoft Dynamics 365.

2. Version compatibility: Solutions exported from an earlier version of Dynamics 365 can be imported into later versions as shown in the following chart.

Components: