Skip to main content

Notifications

Announcements

No record found.

News and Announcements icon
Dynamics 365 Community / Forums / Customer experience | Sales, Customer Insights,... / Development Environment
Customer experience | Sales, Customer Insights,...
Answered

Development Environment

(0) ShareShare
ReportReport
Posted on by Harjit Samra 35

So our CRM Admin has left the company, and we're not sure of the exact state of the Development Environment (This sounds like the start of a comedy blog..!)

We do have Dev/UAT/Prod environments, and everything is in one Solution on Dev. Ideally we'd validate/confirm that the Solution on Dev is the same as on UAT/Prod, so that any future updates wouldn't cause any adverse effects on Prod.

Has anyone had this same issue before?

Can I just export the Solution from Dev/Prod and compare them?

I've been asked to look into rebuilding Dev from Prod, but aren't really sure how to do this, or if it's possible.

  • Verified answer
    Mohsin Ali Profile Picture
    Mohsin Ali 3,610 on at
    RE: Development Environment

     Harjit Samra - In your both DEV and PROD you can check the solution history. That will give you complete trail of the customization deployment. To access please go to Advanced Settings and then click below option.

    pastedimage1643778787122v1.png

  • Harjit Samra Profile Picture
    Harjit Samra 35 on at
    RE: Development Environment

    I'm not sure if the previous Admin incremented the version number during the Solution Export (I'm still waiting for access to PROD).  

    Also, it's possible that on Dev they may have customised objects in CRM, affecting items in the Solution.

  • Suggested answer
    Bipin D365 Profile Picture
    Bipin D365 28,964 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at
    RE: Development Environment

    Hi,

    If solutions deployed on Production is Unmanaged then you can restore your production instance backup to Dev  instance .

    docs.microsoft.com/.../backup-restore-environments

    If solutions are deployed as Managed then it will be difficult to rebuild.

    Please mark my answer verified if this is helpful!

    Regards,

    Bipin Kumar

    Follow my Blog: xrmdynamicscrm.wordpress.com/

  • empath-e CRM Profile Picture
    empath-e CRM 1,134 on at
    RE: Development Environment

    Just check the version number for the Solutions in each of your environments to ensure they are the same

Under review

Thank you for your reply! To ensure a great experience for everyone, your content is awaiting approval by our Community Managers. Please check back later.

Helpful resources

Quick Links

December Spotlight Star - Muhammad Affan

Congratulations to a top community star!

Top 10 leaders for November!

Congratulations to our November super stars!

Tips for Writing Effective Suggested Answers

Best practices for providing successful forum answers ✍️

Leaderboard

#1
André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture

André Arnaud de Cal... 291,280 Super User 2024 Season 2

#2
Martin Dráb Profile Picture

Martin Dráb 230,235 Most Valuable Professional

#3
nmaenpaa Profile Picture

nmaenpaa 101,156

Leaderboard

Featured topics

Product updates

Dynamics 365 release plans