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Turning managed into unmanaged

Posted on by 509

I'm  working on some upgrades and have a serious problem,

The dev system I'm working on has been copied back from a production evnvironment. The problem is, everything in dev is now managed.

I need to change web resources, at least one form, and a ribbon.

Does anybody know a way out of this?

Thanks

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    RE: Turning managed into unmanaged

    Hi Lee-Martin,

    The best course of action here is to restore a backup.  You can do that from the Admin Center.

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/backup-restore-environments#system-backups

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  • Lee-Martin Profile Picture
    Lee-Martin 509 on at
    RE: Turning managed into unmanaged

    Thanks

    The probem isn't the solution, the problem is that everything is managed. I have an unmanaged solution, but it's only adding managed components.

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    Adrian Begovich Profile Picture
    Adrian Begovich 21,009 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
    RE: Turning managed into unmanaged

    Hi Lee-Martin,

    There are no supported methods for converting a managed solution into an unmanaged solution, but if you want to give an unsupported method a shot you can:

    1. Extract the solution.xml file from your managed zip file.
    2. Edit the value from 1 (Managed) to 0 (Unmanaged) for the <Managed> tag. The tags approximate location is on line 9 of the solution.xml file.
    3. Load and overwrite the edited solution.xml file into the zip file. Make sure that you do not just extract all of the files and zip them all back up as when you will try to import the solution it will fail.
    4. Import the modified zip file into your system.
  • Lee-Martin Profile Picture
    Lee-Martin 509 on at
    RE: Turning managed into unmanaged

    I'm not sure when it was done (i suspect it might have been a while ago).

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Turning managed into unmanaged

    How long ago was the update?  Are you online?  You may be able to revert through the admin center.

    I have backups for a week, its automatically done, but this is for cloud based.

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