UNMANAGED SOLUTIONS

In the past versions of Microsoft Dynamics CRM (prior to Dynamics 365), most of the code deployments were done via unmanaged solutions as this was regarded as the fastest way. Working with managed solutions was considered a tricky challenge, and issues often required a holding solution (and lots of time!) to get fixed.

An unmanaged solution can be described as a container, combining multiple customizations.

The container can be imported as an unmanaged solution in your target system and will transfer all your customizations that are available in the solution. However, deleting the unmanaged solution will leave all the individual components untouched! This would require you to manually delete all the individual components in the target instance, in case something goes wrong.

To summarize, here are some risks you can encounter with unmanaged solutions:

• Deleting an unmanaged solution in your target instance does not delete the individual customizations in the solution.
• Unmanaged customizations can be changed from within the target system, and thus creating a conflict between your source and target instance.
• It is not possible to undo or roll back the changes made via an unmanaged solution