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Dear team,
in our company we have dynamics crm 2011 and we need to update our CRM to dynamics crm 365 on premise V9.0
i've read several articles about the steps and i found two options:
direct migration option from 2011 to dynamics 365
cumulative upgrade from 2011 to 2013 to 2015 to 2016 then to dynamics 365
but unfortunately, i'm note able to decide which is the best way and how to implement it. For that please i need your help with this matter
Thanks in advance
Hi Adel,
Can you please share the approach finally which you have used. Becuase in our company we have dynamics crm 2011 and we need to update our CRM to dynamics crm 365 on premise V9.0.
If you will share it, it would be veru help ful for us.
Hi,
Some upgrades happened in-place, some in separate servers due to operating system requirements. For the separate servers, we used organization import.
There are pros and cons, there is no right and wrong for the upgrade methodology. We took snapshots for each step to be able to revert back.
Regards,
Thank you again Andrew
So i will create separate servers for each versions with trial key. Then i will backup crm databases and restore them and finally import organization using deployment manager and so on for each installation
Thank you for your help
Thank you Erhan,
And how did you upgrade from version to another? Database export and import to new installation and import organization? Or using the installer??
If we need a new server we have to use data migration and not in place upgrade as we talked above
Hi,
I have done this upgrade from Dynamics CRM 2011 to Dynamics 365.
What you need to follow is;
-> Consider compatibility of Windows Server and SQL server before upgrading Dynamics application.
-> You can setup a separate server for each version, or everything can be handled in-place in one server.
Regards,
Organization import should fix all differences in DBs, bring new entities and so on.
For migration I used trial keys that are available by the same url as packages. For example 2013 - www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx under details section you have trial key - CQWW3-TNXBF-HRQWC-CVTW9-M968H
okay it's very clear now.. so i can use the migration option sequentially from 2011 to 2013 and so on until we upgrade to V9.0
So from 2011 to 2013 there is no compatibility issues with export and import the solutions .
but what about the database schema between 2011 and 2013 this will not make any issue during the migration phase
and about the product keys have you used the trial versions between 2013, 2014 and 2016?
Thank you so much for your help
In order to do that migration I created separated installation for every version - 2013, 2015, 2016 and migrated DB in sequent way. For every installation I use supported versions of Windows Server and SQL server.
well noted,
could you please share with me the steps that you did during the upgrade process? specially on the server level
because our crm installed on the windows server 2012 and we need to install the 9.0 on windows server 2016
have you duplicated the existing instance before you start the upgrade plan? just in case anything happen during the upgrade?
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