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CRM 365 after minimal copy still we see there is huge data into it.

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Hello All Experts,

Why this is that when i have already created a minimal copy but still i am getting a huge lot of data.

i have checked it in the service health on the portal.

can anyone help me in understanding this.

is it because , system jobs are not get deleted or something else.

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  • EmployeeOcta Profile Picture
    6 on at
    RE: CRM 365 after minimal copy still we see there is huge data into it.

    Here i missed one thing that in the Health Monitoring i see that it's showing more than 21 GB size.

    when i see the entities there are no records as expected.

    can anyone help me in understanding this.

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    on at
    RE: CRM 365 after minimal copy still we see there is huge data into it.

    Hi,

    As I known, a Minimal copy only includes users, customizations, and schema from the source instance and is suitable for:  

    •Iterative team development

    •Partner/ISV solutions

    •Proof of concept

    An example scenario +  

    Isaac has a large development project starting next week for the sales department. He has a team of developers ready to start on the project, some of whom are internal to Contoso and some are external vendors. The Contoso sales application contains Personally Identifiable Information (PII) that the sales manager has explicitly stated must not be made available to any external parties for privacy and legal liability reasons. Isaac requests a minimal copy Sandbox instance that does not contain any production data or users. In addition, Isaac creates an Office 365 security group to give the development team access to the Sandbox instance.  

    After modifying and enabling some of the plug-ins, the developer Sandbox instance functions the same and is completely isolated from the production application. The development team works on their modifications in this instance for several weeks. They package their changes into a solution and export/import to deploy to the full copy Sandbox instance. After a successful round of testing and signoffs, the changes are manually deployed to production.  

    Entities copied in a Minimal copy

    The following entities are copied when you do a Minimal copy:  

    Entities

    BusinessUnit

    ConnectionRole

    Currency

    DuplicateRule

    DuplicateRuleCondition

    EmailServerProfile

    FieldPermission

    FieldSecurityProfile

    ImportMap

    InternalAddress

    Mailbox

    Organization

    Position

    Report

    Resource

    ResourceGroup

    Role

    RollupField

    SavedQuery

    SLAKPIInstance

    Solution

    Subject

    Team

    TeamTemplate

    Template

    SystemUser

    Hope it helps.

    BR,

    Judy

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