Converting Unmanaged solution to Managed

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Hi All,

I have a requirement to convert our unmanaged solution to managed. Currently we have a production environment which has unmanaged solution. The unmanged solution has number of customizations to the entities (e.g.: lead, opportunity, etc). Going forward we want to change the approach and use managed solutions.

What approach should I follow? How can we make sure that we successfully import a managed solution for the entities that are already customized in production as unmanaged?

Thanks,

Swaroop

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RE: Converting Unmanaged solution to Managed

Hi All,

As already mentioned above it is never a good idea to convert your development environment into a managed state as once you have done this you will not be able to revert to unmanaged. Again as mentioned once you have a managed solution in the system the only way to get it out is to delete it, you will not be able to export it and import it elsewhere.

If however, you do want to convert the solution to managed what you can do is export the unmanaged solution as managed then delete the unmanaged solution. This will leave all the unmanaged components in the system. You are then able to import the managed version which will convert all the components to a managed state.

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RE: Converting Unmanaged solution to Managed

I have the same situation -> Converting an unmanaged solution to managed. To problem is the solution layering.

Have you found a way of doing this guys? Managed export and reimport doesn't work.

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RE: Converting Unmanaged solution to Managed

Hello Swaroop.

NEVER do this on your development system. When you import all your solutions managed, you can't export them for test and prod environment. On Dev your customizations and programmings are unmanaged, than export them MANAGED for Test and Prod.

Kind regards,

Karsten

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RE: Converting Unmanaged solution to Managed

I haven't tried this but in theory you could try the reverse of this blog?

https://community.dynamics.com/ax/b/thedynamicsblog/archive/2014/07/14/converting-managed-solutions-to-unmanaged-solutions-crm-2013

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RE: Converting Unmanaged solution to Managed

Were you able to successfully convert unmanaged to manages??

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RE: Converting Unmanaged solution to Managed

Were you able to successfully convert unmanaged to manage??

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RE: Converting Unmanaged solution to Managed

Hello, we have a similar need to convert an unmanaged solution in production environment to managed. However it fails when i tried to import the same solution exported as managed. it complaints about lot of missing components which are already part of my managed solution. Any help would be highly appreciated.

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RE: Converting Unmanaged solution to Managed

Hi Swaroop, did you manage to convert from unmanaged to Managed solutions?

Let me know if I can help :)

Best Wishes, Raz

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Swaroop Deshmukh 280 on at

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RE: Converting Unmanaged solution to Managed

Hi Karth,

Is it a good idea to export all the customizations (for all CRM entities) as 1 managed solution and apply it to the Prod environment?

And Is this the only way to convert unmanaged solution to managed? I mean is there a way to do it thru SDK or other methods?

Thanks,

Swaroop

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RE: Converting Unmanaged solution to Managed

Managed solution has one limitation (or should I call it a feature?) - once you have imported a solution as 'Managed', you cannot export it. So, even if you make additional configurations on the managed solution, you will not be able to export it. You have to consider this for your design purpose. Take a backup of your existing customizations on your Dev Server, and then export the solution as 'Managed'.

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