I'm setting up a dev environment for CRM 2011, to test our organisation ahead of an upgrade from 4.0
I'm trying to avoid having to set up a separate DC for the dev environment as I only have limited resources to create VMs with.
Will 2011 use the existing 4.0 AD server groups, or will it create it's own groups?
Thanks,
Jim
If you decide to go the In-Place-Upgrade route, it will use the existing OUs.
Another option is to create a complete new Dynamics CRM 2011 environment (and therefore specifying a new OU). You can import your v4 Org-Database into it which will perform an upgrade. This gives you the possibility to test at least the database specific parts of the upgrade.
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Helllo,
I have a working and up to date environment for Dynamics v9 on-prem.
I want to create another environment which will be identical to the above mentioned one.
Let's say that I want to clone PROD env and create a new Test environment with the same data and customizations that I have in prod.
What are the proper steps ? There is a lack of resources about this topic so I might have posted this in a wrong place. In this case, sorry and please refer me to the correct forum if you know such.
My idea is that, yes I would back up the sql server and then restore it but what happens on the Dynamics side ? Do I need to import any kind of configuration from the Dynamics Deployment Configuration ?
Or can I create the new environment and then restore the prod database in this env ?
Thanks
Steps:
Backup the database of the existing D365 organization
Create a new D365 organization
Restore the new organization using the backup of step 1
The wizard will guide you through the process.
I would like to know how to auto manage portal's custom code just like in TFS/VSTS?
At present ,I am using XRMToolbox to manage ,push or pull portal's code into CRM Instance but disadvantage is code checkin and checkout.
Can anyone help me in this to manage a code with auto pull and push option into CRM instance with checkin ,checkout options?
Thanks in Advance!
I'm afraid the XRMToolbox plugin doesn't support it yet.
Ref: https://github.com/MscrmTools/MscrmTools.PortalCodeEditor/issues/13
But there is no stopping you from creating your own pipeline - at the end of the day portal code is just bunch of Crm entities. Part of Crm SDK is configuration migration tool - last version is here:
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.CrmSdk.XrmTooling.ConfigurationMigration.Wpf
So the idea is:
1) Get this tool
2) Define entities you want to backup & create schema xml file for them. I think you'd want adx_webpage, adx_webfile, adx_pagetemplate (and all attributes from them)
3) Export data using this schema - this exports them to .zip package that contains simple structure (schema file and data file); so you can unzip it and store in your git branch (pull)
4) For push zip this file and again use configuration migration tool to import the data
This gives you also an opportunity to have separate dev version of portal code and production version of portal code (which is always a good thing).
Portals code is made up of configuration changes to a solution (which can be extracted as xml) and data (records such as web pages, web roles etc.)
There are several tools available to help you source control both.
xrm-ci-framework provides automation tools to extract your CRM solution as xml, and then source control it. You can do this locally or in the cloud with Azure DevOps or other.
msbuild-xrm-sourcecontrol is similar. It integrates into Visual Studio to help you extract CRM customisations locally. It also has a partner project xrm-datamigration which helps you extract data from CRM, version control it and deploy it to other environments in your release pipeline. Both have documentation on the GitHub pages I've linked; this blog post is informative too.
We are just configuring our first Microsoft CRM Portal using the Portals Add-In.
We are doing this in our sandbox, obviously. Question: How do we deploy this to our production system? As far as I see, most of the data is not saved in a solution but in entity records. Is there a practical way to deploy the stuff?
You’ll want to use the Portal Records Mover in the XRMToolbox. It will allow you to export/import the relevant records for the Portal.
https://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/dynamicscrmtools/archive/2017/06/13/new-xrmtoolbox-plugin-portal-records-mover
Alternatively, you can use the Configuration Migration tool (available in the SDK NuGet package) to move the records. I prefer the Portal Records Mover because it provides more granular control and supports updates without overwriting.
As suggested by #Nicknow use Configuration Migration and Portal Records Mover.
I would do the first transfer with the Configuration Migration and continue with Portal Records Mover where you can filter records that were updated on a given time frame.
You can also build your own SSIS package to filter the modified records and move them on the productive system.
I am new windows azure user. I have gotten selected for 90 days trial account and I am able to upload my ASP.NET MVC3 application to my account. My site is also running now. After I did publish my site, I added more model, views and controller to my proramme. Now I can not find a way to update my application. I can again publish my application but update option is not there. I want to update my new code only but the package option is creating full application. How I can update the new code to my site in windows azure cloud?
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With Windows Azure you can publish/update an application following ways:
Log into you Windows Azure account. Select you hosted server name and at the top panel you will see "Upgrade" option, when you will use this option you will be given a chance to select your CSPKG and CSCFG file from local file system or from Windows Azure storage. Once you selected new or updated CSPKG, your current running service will bee upgraded.
You can also use Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets to upgrade your current running hosted service using "Update-Deployment" command:
2.1 http://wappowershell.codeplex.com/
You can other 3rd party applications created using Windows Azure Service Management API to upgrade/manage your current running hosted service.
3.1 http://wapmmc.codeplex.com/
3.2 http://www.cerebrata.com/Products/CloudStorageStudio/Default.aspx
Note: With Visual Studio if you again publish your application, it will delete the current running hosted service and then create the new on so for update it is not the good one.
Finally based on your question about partial update, that is not supported. Even when you make a single line change in your code the deployment will be considered a full deployment even when the action is "update/upgrade". There is no diff package deployment so evertime you update your Windows Azure application, you will use the newly created CSPKG file and upgrade your hosted application.
Regarding partial update: If you have multiple Roles, you may choose to upgrade a single role (so that would be a partial update of the deployment). For a given Role, all code is redeployed. If you're running more than one instance, the update will be rolled out across groups of instances, not all instances at once.
For updates such as static content: if you move these into blob storage (a great place for css, jquery, images, etc.), then you may update this content by simply uploading new items to blob storage individually. These updates don't require any code to be rebuilt or redeployed.
If you're in dev mode (e.g. non-production), you may enable Web Deploy, which then allows very fast updates of your app to the running instance. This only works in single-instance mode, and it's great when doing frequent code+test cycles.
We are looking to create a test TFS 2010 server based on our live instance.
One method which has been suggested is to clone the Team Project Collection (TPC) onto to another server - as detailed in this existing answer but I think there are a few additional steps?
In order to get the cloned TPC's GUID reset, I take it we would have to first reattach the cloned TPC in the admin console on the original server then detach, move and reattach on to test Server/TFS instance.
We are not running Sharepoint/WSS but would there be additional config work required on the test server with SSRS - in order for new projects to be created against the cloned TPC?
Are there additional using diffrent AD accounts for services or can all of that be resolved within the admin console on the new server?
Both servers will running on VMWare and on the same domain but different AD accounts would be used on the two servers to help prevent any unwanted interactions between the TFS instances.
I will recommended convert your TFS to virtual environment P2V using SCVMM, see this article,
http://mohamedradwan.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/converting-my-physical-domain-controller-to-a-virtual-machine-p2v/