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I'm trying to migrate data and configurations from a CRM 2015 production environment into a sandbox environment of the same version. The environments are set up on different machines.
I've found many mentions of the Data Migration Utility/Tool that's supposed to make this an easy process, but I can't seem to find where to get this tool.
I've found instructions on how to use it for my purposes here, and this is the only place that seems to mention where to get it from, but it leads me to a post about the Microsoft nuget repository, and none of the packages make any mention of the Data Migration Tool. Another problem with the nuget approach is that my sandbox environment doesn't have internet access, so I would need to install the package manually through CLI, from what I understood. I attempted that with the "Microsoft.CrmSdk.CoreTools" package as it sounded close to what I'm looking for in name and content, but the install commands weren't working and a post mentioned a trick of changing the package extension to see the contents, and the package didn't have the Data Migration Tool at all, neither does it follow the directory structure mentioned in the guides.
I'm pretty confused about how to migrate the data using an elusive tool. Any help or relatively user-friendly alternatives would be appreciated.
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[quote user="Alex Shlega"]
Actually, Kingsway is free if you are using it within your dev tools (might also look at Cozyroc: http://www.cozyroc.com/ ):
"The free developer license is fully-functional within your development tools (SSDT-BI, BIDS, or Visual Studio). The only limitation is the inability to run the software outside your development tools."
Unless you want to schedule everything, you should be fine.
It's much more flexible and convenient than the data migration tool (considering that you can run the whole data migration package at the click of a button, that's not to mention you can use just any fetchXml with SSIS.. and you can do no filtering at all with the data migration tool)
I believe the latest version should work with 2015, at least according to this link:
http://www.kingswaysoft.com/products/ssis-integration-toolkit-for-microsoft-dynamics-365/help-manual
[quote user="Alex Shlega"]
Actually, Kingsway is free if you are using it within your dev tools (might also look at Cozyroc: http://www.cozyroc.com/ ):
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[quote user="Scott Durow"]
I would always use Kingswaysoft for data migration - the configuraiton migration tool is for moving small numbers of records specifically where you have configuration/reference data to move between DEV/TEST/PROD.
If you still want to use the data migration tool, you'll need to download 2015 sdk(the utility is part of that sdk package):
Actually, Kingsway is free if you are using it within your dev tools (might also look at Cozyroc: http://www.cozyroc.com/ ):
"The free developer license is fully-functional within your development tools (SSDT-BI, BIDS, or Visual Studio). The only limitation is the inability to run the software outside your development tools."
Unless you want to schedule everything, you should be fine.
It's much more flexible and convenient than the data migration tool (considering that you can run the whole data migration package at the click of a button, that's not to mention you can use just any fetchXml with SSIS.. and you can do no filtering at all with the data migration tool)
[quote user="Scott Durow"]
Yes - it works!
I would always use Kingswaysoft for data migration - the configuraiton migration tool is for moving small numbers of records specifically where you have configuration/reference data to move between DEV/TEST/PROD.
[quote user="sdnd2000"]
It should be in sdk tools, but for data migration, I suggest to use scribe or kingswaysoft
Yes - it works!
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