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How to setup Development environment to access Production information (e.g. User accounts in production)

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I have set up a development environment. My app needs to access data in production tables from the Dev environment, such as the Users table. How do i set this up in development ? Do i need to add the User table to my solution ? I am worried i will over write some important table in Production when i move from Dev environment back to production .

Other production entities i need in development environment are Choice and other tables that i use with lookup fields. Is there a good reference material on how to set up the Dev environment so that i can work on my app that requires access to production data

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Dave

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Mira Ghaly 11,413 Moderator on at

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@Daved1

If I understand you correctly you need to move data from production to Dev to simulate your production environment?

The easiest way to do this if there is no new customisation or changes on your Dev environment that you can overwrite is to use the admin centre to overwrite your Dev environment with the Production environment..

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/copy-environment

Another option would be to use xrmtoolbox data transporter tool to move the records.

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

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Users table you don't need to move it.

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Thanks - that is helpful.

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Dave

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