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Managed versus Unmanaged solutions and Development

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Posted on by Jeroen J 12

Hi,

I give up, google is letting me down big time so I really need your advise.

Currently we're working with a mix of managed solutions (from external suppliers) and unmanaged solutions (our own development line). For better grasp on what's where, we would like to transfer our solutions to Testing and Production in managed state only in the future.

But, every now and then I really like our development environment to be flushed with new production data. If we'd do that while there are only managed solutions, our development would stop immediately, right (since we can't customize managed components)?

How can we prevent that? Any other possibilities?
Thanks for thinking along with me.

Regards,

Jeroen J.
(Dynamics CRM 2016, 8.1, on premise)

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    Wayne Walton 13,730 on at

    You really don't want your internal solutions in a managed state in production.  Trust me, that path lies pain.  In no small part because it becomes impossible to restore your prod database to dev or test.

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    Jeroen J 12 on at

    Yeah, well, that was the main reason why we hadn't done this so far.

    But we're looking for a way to keep our solutions in sync, without having to stand behind every developer to check if they increase the version numbers. XRM Toolbox is perfect to scan several environments for those numbers, but if people don't increase them when changing, it isn't worth a dime.

    So, if we should stick to unmanaged for internal deliveries, we need to find a way to get overview in which customization is in which environment.

    Any advise?

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    Wayne Walton 13,730 on at

    Yes, use source control.  There's a tool in the SDK that helps make unpacking solution files easy, which means you can do source control on the field change level if you load it you load your solutions to it.  It's also possible to make solution files out of source  control and make sure that's the only one that ever gets loaded to production.    TFS/DevOps is the natural choice, but really any source control that supports file structures will do fine.  

    Here's a really good starting point to setting up solution control with D365: docs.microsoft.com/.../use-source-control-solution-files

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