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Copying customization and structure from Production to a new sandbox
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Copying customization and structure from Production to a new sandbox
ENVIRONMENT:
We have been using D365CE about 1.5 years and have found it go be quite good.
Our previous CRM was Microsoft Dynamics 2016 onPremise
While using D365CE, a traditional setup was used
Name Type
Development sandbox
Playground sandbox
Production production
Our solution was:
Developed in the DEV environment
Tested in the PLAY environment
Deployed in the PROD environment
PROBLEM:
This worked well for months, until we went live.
Once live, the size of the PLAY and PROD environments swelled until we
routinely exceeded our assigned storage capacity.
The temporary fix was simply delete the PLAY environment, since most of the
development work was already done.
This brought us back under the storage capacity limit.
Unfortunately, the DEV environment has kept growing and contains:
Database 2.5 GB
File 7.8 GB
Log 0.0 GB
With this increase in size, we can no longer create an additional sandbox for testing,
without exceed our storage capacity again.
Additionally, the DEV environment has become corrupted:
Several custom fields are missing which had been added to standard tables.
Other fields have had their display name ‘blanked’ out.
A form has a custom field included which is missing from the database
ANALYSIS:
Regardless of the cause, our current Development sandbox is corrupted.
Fortunately, the Solution we developed is unmanaged, and was imported in Production as such.
We have retained the ZIP file copies of each Version as it was exported.
Further Development work is required, as well as ongoing maintenace, to the deployed solution.
SOLUTION:
A new Development sandbox is required.
We understand that it is possible to copy the structure and customizations only from
Production to a new sandbox.
This new DEV1 sandbox would be used for further development work, to be exported to the
Production environment as an unmanaged solution.
QUESTION:
Will this work?
Can you copy the customizations and structure from a Production environment to a
new sandbox, then modify the copied solution, and export it again to the original
Production environment.
Please keep in mind:
There is only one internally developed solution involved
The solution is unmanaged.
CONCLUSION:
Thanks for reading this far.
Any feed back or ideas would greatly appreciated.
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1 Reply
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Long story short: unmanaged solutions mean YES you can do this. 🙂
I actually wrote an article on here a few months ago about how to copy Prod customizations and schema only to a new Sandbox. If you need a reference/how-to, here it is: https://dynamicscommunities.com/ug/power-platform-ug/why-you-should-use-two-power-platform-environments-for-solution-management/
dynamicscommunities.com
Why You Should Use Two Power Platform Environments for Solution Management
UG Expert Heidi Neuhauser explains how to set up two environments in Power Platform in the first part of her series.
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