Managed And Unmanaged Solutions in Dynamic crm

Microsoft Dynamic CRM supports two types of solutions:

• Managed solution
• Unmanaged solution.

Managed Solution:

A managed solution is a completed solution in which the solution is prevented from being modified in the environment to which it is imported. A managed solution is intended to be distributed and installed.

• Possible to set granular levels of rights to alter elements of the solution such as create views, change field properties, add fields etc.

• Solution cannot be exported.

• Easier administration with new versions. Any changes including field removal will be rendered

• If the solution is removed all the customizations pertaining to that solution will be removed and there will be a Risk of data loss.

Once the managed solution is imported following steps takes place:

• User cannot add or remove the components in a managed solution.
• User cannot Export a managed solution.
• By deleting the managed solution all the components in the solutions will also be uninstalled.
• Managed solution can be overridden by another new version of managed solution.

Unmanaged Solution:

Unmanaged solution allows the solution to be modified after it is imported. Unmanaged solution is still under development stage and it is not intended to be distributed or installed.

• All the elements or components in the solution can be customized without any restriction.
• An unmanaged solution can be exported.
• When the unmanaged solution is completed and ready to distribute it, export it and package it as a managed solution.

· Unmanaged solution files can be transported from one environment to the other.

• Entities, Fields, web resources can be removed manually.

The solution acts as a container for the components. If user deletes the solution the components still exist in the default solution.

When a solution is unmanaged, the following steps can takes places:

• Components can be added and removed.
• Components can be deleted that allow for deletion.
• Can Export and Import the unmanaged solution.
• Unmanaged Solution can be exported as a managed solution once the changes are done.