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HI @Martin Dráb , @André Arnaud de Calavon ;

I searched about , how to import .bak file(database file) into unified development environment, but I didn't find any blogs related to my query.

Is it possible to import .bac file into UDE ?? if possible how can we achieve it ??

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Charan.

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Sohaib Cheema 49,668 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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Hi @charan12

As of today, it is not supported either way, as listed below:

1) importing bacpac to UDE

2) Exporting Bacpac from UDE

I can guess what you are trying to do there; you want to take database backup from a LCS hosted environment into UDE.
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HI @Sohaib Cheema ,

I have exported bac file from cloud hosted VM, I want to import this bac file into UDE.
Sohaib Cheema 49,668 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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Hi @charan12

I do understand what you want to do.

As I said that is not possible as of today. It is not supported by Microsoft.
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André Arnaud de Cal... 307,829 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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Hi Charan,

Sohaib already mentioned that this is unsupported. The reason is that a UDE environment not only has the AXDB as a database. It also has data for Dataverse. There is a connection between these databases. While importing a bacpac, it will lose important connection information. While copying a PPAC environment it copies both the environment and the databases. Then it resets the connection details. This last step is missing if you would be able to import a bacpac only.

As a possible and cumbersome workaround, you can restore data in an LCS Sandbox (Tier2+), then copy the environment in PPAC to your UDE. After that you might need to apply Dynamics 365 updates in case the UDE was on a higher version. Also, you need to deploy ISV and customizations again.
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Good afternoon folks,
It appear that this is still unsupported - am I correct?
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Subra 2,440 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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Hi @charan12 @Shaun Brady

As of now it's not supported by MS.

Thanks,
Subra

If this helped, please mark it as "Verified" for others facing the same issue
Anthony Blake 3,286 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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@Shaun Brady yeah not supported, you really need to go via a restore to an LCS tier 2+ and do an environment copy.