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CRM online to on-premise migration

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I am working on migration of online CRM 2011 to on-premise CRM 2011.
On cloud we have some addition cusomizations for entities, forms, workflows, reoorts, dashboards, templates which we will be migrating by using solution export and import.
Also we have to migrate the online data to on-premise for this will be using approach steted in http://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/nakedcrm/archive/2012/12/12/migrating-from-dynamics-crm-online-to-on-premise-the-process.aspx
So in migration process do we need to migrate database first or customization first?
Jaydeep
Monday, May 13, 2013 6:13 PM
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If you get a copy of your database from Microsoft, it will contain all of your customization as they are all stored in the database.
The only thing you would have to worry about are changes made after the backup was taken - ideally you would just but a freeze on new customizations until you got the database restored and setup in the new On Premise environment.
Jason Lattimer
My Blog - Follow me on Twitter - LinkedIn- Proposed as answer by JLattimerMVP, Moderator Monday, May 13, 2013 7:20 PM
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Monday, May 13, 2013 7:20 PMModerator
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If you get a copy of your database from Microsoft, it will contain all of your customization as they are all stored in the database.
The only thing you would have to worry about are changes made after the backup was taken - ideally you would just but a freeze on new customizations until you got the database restored and setup in the new On Premise environment.
Jason Lattimer
My Blog - Follow me on Twitter - LinkedIn- Proposed as answer by JLattimerMVP, Moderator Monday, May 13, 2013 7:20 PM
- Marked as answer by JLattimerMVP, Moderator Tuesday, May 21, 2013 3:39 AM
Monday, May 13, 2013 7:20 PMModerator -
I got the backup from micrososft. Will it contain the forms and entities customizations? And if i restored backup then I do not have to worry about all the customizations that we done on cloud?
Jaydeep
Monday, May 13, 2013 7:59 PM -
That is correct.
Jason Lattimer
My Blog - Follow me on Twitter - LinkedInMonday, May 13, 2013 8:36 PMModerator -
I agree with Jason. Request a copy of the DB from Microsoft.
The old tip was to mention "Power of Choice", and then Microsoft will give it up without the runaround.
-James
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:48 PM