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Saul Dolgin
Saul Dolgin

Reputation: 8814

Automate the process of exporting the default solution from Dynamics CRM 2011

I am responsible for multiple Dynamics CRM environments where we have our customizations deployed. What I would like to do is automate the process of exporting the default solution to the file system. From there I can compare the solutions from different environments.

Is there a way to do this via PowerShell or perhaps the Dynamics SDK?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3015

Answers (2)

Caleb Bell
Caleb Bell

Reputation: 523

Take a look at the "XRM CI Framework" by Wael Hamze, which has some PowerShell cmdlets that wrap some common operations that you can perform using the SDK. The distro includes an "ExtractCustomizations.ps1" script that probably does most of what you want already.

He's also published a blog post on how to "Automate your Dynamics CRM Builds and Deployments with PowerShell". In particular, you'd be interested in the Import-XrmSolution and Export-XrmSolution cmdlets, which wrap the ImportSolutionRequest and ExportSolutionRequest, respectively.

Links:

Upvotes: 4

Jason Lattimer
Jason Lattimer

Reputation: 2848

The CRM 2011 SDK includes methods to Export and Import solutions. When exporting the destination is a zip file in the file system.

Upvotes: 3

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