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Copying Default Environment Database to Production Environment

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Like the title says, I want to copy our company database over from the default environment to a new production environment. We've been storing data in the default environment, but after learning that the default environment cannot be restored or backed-up, we've decided to create a production environment to house our data.

I wanted to know if anyone could point me in the direction of a tutorial or blog post that outlines how to export all my company data from the default environment and import it into the new production environment. I have quite a few apps, flows, solutions, and custom tables that I want to be completely transferred over to this new environment. I found this, but wanted to make sure this was the "Everything" level of copy was the right way to go before I changed our data.

Copy an environment - Power Platform | Microsoft Docs

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see if following links helps..

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/developer/data-platform/dataverse-odata-dataflows-migration

https://www.xrmtoolbox.com/plugins/Colso.Xrm.DataTransporter/

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Dataverse/Migrate-entity-and-data-between-two-environments/m-p/435115#M3354

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@MayankP

Thanks for the links! So from what I'm seeing it's quite a laborious process to copy one environment to another. There's no out-of-the-box tool that helps copy the default environment? That seems like quite the oversight on Microsoft's part.

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Hi @Anonymous ,

There are abilities to do this for Production and Sandbox environments. Microsoft does identify these challenges with the Default environment here (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/environments-overview#the-default-environment) but overall I have seen multiple customers hit this issue.

There really is no "easy" path for the default environment, sorry about that. The links provided by @MayankP are good references. I also answered this a couple of weeks ago here for another individual in the same situation. https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Dataverse/Moving-data-from-default-environment/m-p/1308687#M14828

Hope this helps. Please accept if answers your question or Like if helps in any way.

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Drew

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