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    What is the best way to refresh a development CRM 2011 environment from production?  I have taken a backup of the production database and restored it to a new development database successfully, but when I try to import the organization in the deployment manager, I run into AD permission errors.  I have never run into this before, but this is the first time I have tried to copy a production database in one OU to create a dev environment in a different OU.  The error I am getting is:

    The current user does
    not have required permissions (read/write) for the following Active Directory
    group: CN=ReportingGroup {c7cd7146-a921-4298-a66e-24368aaee26d},OU=CRM
    DEV,DC=awc,DC=corp

    The ReportingGroup in the restored database has a different guid (the guid from production).  I believe this is the cause of the problem, but I don't have a solution.  Can I change the Reporting Group in the new database to the one in the dev OU?

    Friday, May 18, 2012 2:58 PM

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    The whole point of importing an Organisation from one environment into another is to re-map things like CRM Users to the new environment's AD account equivalents; the process will also add those mapped Users to the target deployments CRM AD Groups, such as 'ReportingGroup {deployment GUID}'.

    The error message is complaining that you as the Deployment Administrator, do not have sufficient permissions on the target deployment's ReportingGroup AD Group to complete the import - this has nothing to do with the source deployment.

    Is the user under which you are performing the Organisation import an AD Admin?  You will, at the very least read/write permissions on each of the CRM AD Groups and the requisite permissions to add whichever Users you map during the Organisation import to the necessary CRM AD Groups.

    --pogo (pat) @ pogo69.wordpress.com

    Friday, May 18, 2012 8:25 PM

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    Moving the database may blow away your development customizations so you will have to back them up and then re-import them after the refresh if you are replacing the CRM database.  Otherwise Scribe or some other data migration tool might better suit your needs.

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    The whole point of importing an Organisation from one environment into another is to re-map things like CRM Users to the new environment's AD account equivalents; the process will also add those mapped Users to the target deployments CRM AD Groups, such as 'ReportingGroup {deployment GUID}'.

    The error message is complaining that you as the Deployment Administrator, do not have sufficient permissions on the target deployment's ReportingGroup AD Group to complete the import - this has nothing to do with the source deployment.

    Is the user under which you are performing the Organisation import an AD Admin?  You will, at the very least read/write permissions on each of the CRM AD Groups and the requisite permissions to add whichever Users you map during the Organisation import to the necessary CRM AD Groups.

    --pogo (pat) @ pogo69.wordpress.com

    Friday, May 18, 2012 8:25 PM