Migrating CRM and Customizations

We're customizing CRM on a test machine, and intend to implement it on
another server. Is it enough to back up our databases from the test
machine and restore then on the 2nd server or do we need to export our
customizations from the test machine as well ? What is the order of
these operations ?

Any help would be appreciated.

Q
Wed May 19 12:52:16 CDT 2004

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Q
>-----Original Message-----
>We're customizing CRM on a test machine, and intend to
implement it on
>another server. Is it enough to back up our databases
from the test
>machine and restore then on the 2nd server or do we need
to export our
>customizations from the test machine as well ? What is
the order of
>these operations ?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>.
>

John
Thu May 20 00:19:52 CDT 2004

check this out

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bfced393-61db-49af-9a50-4a90b311fa7d&DisplayLang=en#filelist


"SuperSonic Steve" <lafleur@canadiensfan.com> wrote in message
news:b4087b8b.0405190503.78325b2d@posting.google.com...
> We're customizing CRM on a test machine, and intend to implement it on
> another server. Is it enough to back up our databases from the test
> machine and restore then on the 2nd server or do we need to export our
> customizations from the test machine as well ? What is the order of
> these operations ?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

lafleur
Thu May 20 12:54:48 CDT 2004

"John O'Donnell" <csharpconsulting@nospam-hotmail.com-nospam> wrote in message news:<uuaxaoiPEHA.1388@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...
> check this out
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bfced393-61db-49af-9a50-4a90b311fa7d&DisplayLang=en#filelist
>
>
> "SuperSonic Steve" <lafleur@canadiensfan.com> wrote in message
> news:b4087b8b.0405190503.78325b2d@posting.google.com...
> > We're customizing CRM on a test machine, and intend to implement it on
> > another server. Is it enough to back up our databases from the test
> > machine and restore then on the 2nd server or do we need to export our
> > customizations from the test machine as well ? What is the order of
> > these operations ?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks. That looks good. What if I only want to migrate my
customizations ? Should I just install CRM then import the
customizations from the development machine's EXport ?

John
Fri May 21 00:09:45 CDT 2004

if you just want the forms etc then export in deployent manager and import
to the other system as long as both crm systems are the same version it will
work. always take backups before hand of course
"SuperSonic Steve" <lafleur@canadiensfan.com> wrote in message
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> "John O'Donnell" <csharpconsulting@nospam-hotmail.com-nospam> wrote in
message news:<uuaxaoiPEHA.1388@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...
> > check this out
> >
> >
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bfced393-61db-49af-9a50-4a90b311fa7d&DisplayLang=en#filelist
> >
> >
> > "SuperSonic Steve" <lafleur@canadiensfan.com> wrote in message
> > news:b4087b8b.0405190503.78325b2d@posting.google.com...
> > > We're customizing CRM on a test machine, and intend to implement it on
> > > another server. Is it enough to back up our databases from the test
> > > machine and restore then on the 2nd server or do we need to export our
> > > customizations from the test machine as well ? What is the order of
> > > these operations ?
> > >
> > > Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks. That looks good. What if I only want to migrate my
> customizations ? Should I just install CRM then import the
> customizations from the development machine's EXport ?