Hi all,
We are currently assessing a potential upgrade from CRM2013 on premise to Dynamics 365 (Sales) Online or CRM2016(365) on premise.
One thing, which really stops us from going to the cloud, is the fact that we would have to do a full data migration from our local SQL server database to the cloud using tools like Scribe or SSIS/Kingsoft. Since we have lot of data and custom entities this data migration might take a few months (to prepare, test, execute).
Now I heard a rumour that MS will offer a new feature (early next year) to customers, which allow moving your local data/database to an Azure SQL environment. This would make an upgrade much easier / faster.
Under https://roadmap.dynamics.com/ in the development section I found following feature:
If you are a customer planning to upgrade from an existing Dynamics AX 2012 R3 implementation to Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition, you will benefit from the tools provided by Microsoft to move your database from on-premises SQL Server to Azure SQL database. This automated process reduces the time to upgrade your data to the new environment. The automation of this upgrade step reduces your overall upgrade effort and eliminates errors.
Does anybody have more information on this? Will this only be available for Dynamics AX only and not CRM? Does anybody know if/by when this option will be available to CRM on premise customers?
Many thanks
Alen
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