Replicate a Managed Solutions environment and Import UnManaged Solutions

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Posted on by San Artham

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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.

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San

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Dengliang Li Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi,

According to the official documentation.

Best Regards,
Dengliang Li

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betlejuice 2,139 on at

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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.

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Oscar

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Daivat Vartak (v-9d... 7,835 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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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).

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Best Regards,
Daivat Vartak

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