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Error when importing solution to on-premise

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Posted on by awalters 3,079

I'm trying to import an add-on solution into our on-premise (v9) organization, and I'm getting the error:

"The solution package you are importing was generated on Microsoft Dynamics 365 (online). You can’t import it into on-premises or hosted versions of Microsoft Dynamics 365."

The solution is set to version 9.0, so that's not what it's complaining about.  Since when can solutions not be used on either platform?  We've imported a number of solutions before and never had to download an on-premise-specific version...

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  • awalters Profile Picture
    awalters 3,079 on at
    RE: Error when importing solution to on-premise

    Unfortunately, our solution was to begrudgingly switch to Online.  We were having too many issues with bugs and incompatibilities for On-Premise.

  • CMilton Profile Picture
    CMilton 110 on at
    RE: Error when importing solution to on-premise

    If you ever managed to figure this out - I am desperate for a later release of Dynamics 365 Workflow Tools in my V9 On-premise instance!


    Fancy sharing the solution?

  • awalters Profile Picture
    awalters 3,079 on at
    RE: Error when importing solution to on-premise

    UGH - I knew that there was a continuous deployment cycle, but I thought people had the option to choose to defer for a couple of releases.  Do they still, despite this numbering change?

    So yeah.  Sounding likely that every solution developed by people with only online (which is very likely a not-insignificant number of free addon devs, at the very least) is now going to be incompatible with on-prem.  I wonder if there are any ramifications from the changes I did to get it to work?  Haven't found any yet, but haven't gotten all the way through my tests...

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    Ben Thompson 6,350 on at
    RE: Error when importing solution to on-premise

    There is no such thing as a 9.0 online instance anymore. Prior to 9 all instances sat on their own self contained hardware and upgrades were applied manually. From 9.0 onwards online instances use standard Azure systems and upgrades are performed automatically using a continuous deployment cycle to ensure all people are on the same instance see community.dynamics.com/.../october-service-update-for-dynamics-365-online-will-be-version-9-1 so everyone is currently on 9.1 and this week or last weeks minor release.

    That's why you occasionally see reports of something not working in Australia or the United Kingdom as those regions receive the new releases earlier in the week than the rest of the world...

  • awalters Profile Picture
    awalters 3,079 on at
    RE: Error when importing solution to on-premise

    That being said - I wonder if something generated in 9.0 online could be imported in 9.0 on-prem without any changes.  Anyone still have a 9.0 online instance kicking around?  :-D

  • awalters Profile Picture
    awalters 3,079 on at
    RE: Error when importing solution to on-premise

    I recompiled everything with version 9.0 assemblies, though, and then changed the version XML to 9.0.  It did allow an import no problem once I did that, and also changed the "GeneratedBy" tag, so I'd be surprised if it's version related (or at least specifically related to the 9.1 vs 9.0 change).  Though it's not impossible, I guess.  Going to go through all the others we have now and see if I can see anything else that might be relevant.  And gonna test the hell out of this import to see if there were any intended consequences.  All seems good at the moment, though.

    And yes, it'll definitely be a nasty surprise if on-prem users can't use a bunch of add-ons...though I'd guess more for us than the developers.  (At least for the free stuff.)

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    Ben Thompson 6,350 on at
    RE: Error when importing solution to on-premise

    If it's https://github.com/demianrasko/Dynamics-365-Workflow-Tools then I suspect the issue is that the current online version is 9.1 and the last version was created with that release rather than 9.0 (based on the release date) and the new 9.1 solution manager has a lot of new / additional flow and custom control options included within it.

    It's probably worth highlighting this as I suspect a lot of ISVs follow a similar development methodology and will be in for a nasty surprise when they release a new version and discover onpremise users can't install it... I know I will need to change a few things to avoid this sort of issue.

  • gdas Profile Picture
    gdas 50,089 Moderator on at
    RE: Error when importing solution to on-premise

    Yes , agreed with you ,in that case please raise ticket to MS.

  • awalters Profile Picture
    awalters 3,079 on at
    RE: Error when importing solution to on-premise

    Both the on-premise and online in this case are version 9, so according to that chart we should be fine.  It also doesn't mention anything about online vs on-premise.

  • gdas Profile Picture
    gdas 50,089 Moderator on at
    RE: Error when importing solution to on-premise

    Hi Allison ,

    What was the version of Dynamics 365 online where you have  exported the  solution ?

    If I am not wrong  this is expected if your solution exported from above version of 9,0. See the below references  -

    "Any solution exported from a newer version of Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement apps cannot be imported into an older version of Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement apps. This includes major and minor versions. Solutions exported from an earlier version of Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement apps can be imported into later versions as shown in the following chart."

    docs.microsoft.com/.../maintain-managed-solutions

    docs.microsoft.com/.../introduction-solutions

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