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Replicate a Managed Solutions environment and Import UnManaged Solutions

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Posted on by San Artham 3,175
Hello Community
 
we have a Dev-1 env with UnManaged Solutions and a Test env with Managed Solutions.
Test env has latest data, Dev-1 env has no clean data.
We have lot of custom entities and relationships, so moving just the data from Test to Dev-1 env could be humongous task and error prone.

What if i restore/refresh Test env Dataverse DB to a new Dev-2 env and import known unmanaged solutions from Dev-1 to Dev-2?
This way, could we start using Dev-2 as my new Development env?
 
Appreciate the inputs.
 
Regards
San
 
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    Daivat Vartak (v-9davar) Profile Picture
    Daivat Vartak (v-9d... 3,635 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    Replicate a Managed Solutions environment and Import UnManaged Solutions
    Hello San,
     
    What I understand from your question is that you have one development environment (Dev-1) where you and your team develop the solution. For validation/UAT, you are moving the solution as managed to the test environment (Test-1). This environment has a lot of records that are good for testing. Now, you want the same data/records in the development environment so that the developer can test the functionality in the development environment before moving to test/UAT. 
     
    Logically, you can copy the test environment (Test-1) to the new sandbox environment (Dev-2) and deploy the solution (from Dev-1 as unmanaged) again to the new development environment (Dev-2), this will allow you to make changes to all the managed components. 
     
    The alternate way is to copy/migrate data using Data Migration Utility (as part of D365 CE SDK). 
     
    If my answer was helpful, please click Like, and if it solved your problem, please mark it as verified to help other community members find more.
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    Best Regards,
    Daivat Vartak
     
  • betlejuice Profile Picture
    betlejuice 2,139 on at
    Replicate a Managed Solutions environment and Import UnManaged Solutions
    Hi, 
     
    Don't forget if you restore DB you will restore also all the solutions from Test. It means in your new Dev-2 enviroment will be your managed solutions. I will recommend to you to try to move data with a SSIS project + KingswaySoft.
     
    Best regards
    Oscar
  • Dengliang Li Profile Picture
    Dengliang Li Microsoft Employee on at
    Replicate a Managed Solutions environment and Import UnManaged Solutions
    Hi,
     
    According to the official documentation.
     
    Best Regards,
    Dengliang Li
     

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