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Looking to get some thoughts on the concept of should a PROD environment only ever have managed solutions?
Is there reasonable grounds to have an unmanaged solution deployed to such an environment?
Using SharePoint as a data source could be an excuse, but shifting between a test and prod SP list can be overcome with environment variables.
Thoughts suggestions? Links to any doco?
I'm new to Power apps. I'm still trying to understand the concept of managed vs unmanaged solutions
My app is simple and I know that I will have to make changes to dataverse tables and the app itself.
My biggest fear is to lose data, as I have a database with 10000+ record with data since 2021.
I cannot find in the documentation what is the behavior of simple actions like removing of renaming a column in dataverse after exporting and reimporting a solution as managed.. the inner of power apps is still very obscure.
To add fire to the mix, MS themselves were, upto the middle of last year, still using unmanaged solutions in their own production environments
One thing I would recommend when going down the managed route is to spend some time how you want to structure your solutions, as this can have a bearing if you have multiple teams updating the same components using different solutions/publishers etc
Otherwise you may regularly come across weird issues with solution layering or solution imports not overwriting components in your target environment when you were expecting them to
Hi @grantreid
Managed vs unmanaged solutions is a debate that has been going on for years, and people can have very strong views either way. A few years back, there were limitations with managed solutions which made people prefer unmanaged in a prod environment (including myself). But I believe all of the major limitations have now been fixed. I’ve been using managed solutions with my clients for the past 3 years now and have not run into any issues. Personally I always recommend managed solutions for non-Dev environments.
It is also Microsoft’s recommended approach which you can read about here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/solution-concepts-alm
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