You can export a solution in MS CRM 2011 as either managed or un-managed solution. If you export a solution as managed you cannot do any customizations on that managed solution where ever you import. This is mainly for ISV’s to protect their code.
But I think we can covert a managed solution to unmanaged solution quite easily. Check the below procedure.
- Export a solution as managed
- It will create a zip file with three files: [Content_Types].xml, customizations.xml, solution.xml
- Extract the zip file and edit the solution.xml file.
- Find the <Managed> attribute in the xml file. This will have value 1 for managed. Change this to 0. Your final value will be <Managed>0</Managed>.
- Zip the three files again and import to new organization and solution is unmanaged.
Am I doing something wrong here??? Can’t I stop a user to import my solution as unmanaged???
This won't work as the xml schema is different for managed and unmanaged schemas so you will get an xml error if you change this flag. So there is some proection for your customizations
ReplyDeleteJoe
same here dude. i tried that out and failed. but if you can find another way please post it. thanx in advance.
ReplyDeleteshaheen
I tried this with a managed solution and it worked fine for me.
ReplyDelete