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CRM 2011 - Import Solution

Proposed CRM 2011 - Import Solution

  • Wednesday, May 11, 2011 6:15 PM
     
     
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    Hello,

    I am trying to import the default solution of one tenant to anothertenant on the same server, it gives me error while loading plugin. The error says 'Unable to load plug-in assembly.' and the assembly is 'WorkingWithDynamicsCrm4.Workflow'. Could you please help?

    Thanks,

    Saket.

     

     

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  • Wednesday, May 11, 2011 6:36 PM
     
     
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    Did you try to use Plugin Registration Tool to register the plugin after the solution has been imported?

    Daniel Cai | http://danielcai.blogspot.com
     
  • Wednesday, May 11, 2011 7:00 PM
     
     
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    There is an interesting thing here, We did not have any plugin assemblies in our application. Now what I see is all the plugin folders int the Export solution have DLLs with 0kb size, which does not make any sense. This solution was upgraded from CRM 4.0 to CRM 2011.

     

     

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  • Wednesday, May 11, 2011 7:19 PM
     
     
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    That seems a bug from the CRM 2011 upgrade component. What if you run Plugin Registration Tool? Do you see any entries referring to the DLL files with 0kb size that you have seen?
    Daniel Cai | http://danielcai.blogspot.com
     
  • Wednesday, May 11, 2011 9:44 PM
     
     
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    Yes, It seems an error because of the upgrade. when I imported the solution without plugins, it worked for me. But now the question is, what is the best practice to export and import customizations in 2011? If there is change in entity UI, still the entire solution needs to be exported and imported?
    Saket
     
  • Tuesday, May 17, 2011 11:01 PM
     
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    Hello -

    What are the names of the plugins that have 0kb size?  Any chance that they were custom plugins that were registered at one point?  Have you tried to delete them?  Is the assembly name DotNetAssembly?

    As far as exporting and importing customizations I suggest creating small solutions that only contain the components that you are customizing (Settings --> Customization --> Solutions --> new).  By using a smaller solution it will make the export and imports significantly faster.  Also recognize that you may run into some dependency issues so you will have to make sure that all of the dependencies are in the solution or target environment.

    -Brandon

    • Proposed As Answer by Mamatha Swamy Wednesday, May 18, 2011 5:52 AM
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  • Monday, July 16, 2012 1:20 PM
     
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    Better Export solution with out Plugins and try import.

    What technique you guys have used to Upgrade from 4.0 to 2011? Upgraded it while installing CRM 2011 or developed your own code to migrate data only?

    Thank you,

    Sreeni Pavalla

     
  • Monday, July 16, 2012 1:38 PM
     
     
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    Yes, It seems an error because of the upgrade. when I imported the solution without plugins, it worked for me. But now the question is, what is the best practice to export and import customizations in 2011? If there is change in entity UI, still the entire solution needs to be exported and imported?
    Saket

    Hi Saket,

    ww also experience similiar problem for few of our clients who migerated from CRM 4.0 to CRM 2011, the way to resolve is update configuration entry on crm web config as mentioned in blog articles below..

    http://mscrmuk.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/using-crm-40-assemblies-on-crm-2011.html

    see if this helps..

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