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Removing connection references from managed solutions

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Hello everyone,
 
I'm new to Dataverse so please bear with me. I created an unmanaged solution in my Dev environment that contained 1 app, 15 tables, 3 choices, 2 flows, and 2 connection references for those flows. I exported this solution from the Dev environment and imported it as a managed solution into my Test environment. Everything worked fine. However, we decided we wanted to remove the flows and connection references, so I removed them from my app, deleted them from my Dev environment, and also deleted them from the unmanaged solution. When I go to import the updated unmanaged solution into my Test environment, I keep getting error 8004F01F:

The connectionreference(...) component cannot be deleted because it is referenced by 2 other components. For a list of referenced components, use the RetrieveDependenciesForDeleteRequest.
 
I'm unable to install Visual Studio and the Dynamics 365 SDK in order to run the RetrieveDependenciesForDeleteRequest command on my PC. Also, the tables contain a lot of data in the Test environment and I would like to avoid deleting the managed solution if possible, as that would remove all of the tables and their associated data.
 
How can I go about removing these connection references and flows from the managed solution?
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    Michael E. Gernaey Profile Picture
    53,433 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    HI,
     
    Did you delete the Managed Solution from your Test environment?
     
    Do this
     
    Delete it, and it will tell you what if any weird dependencies exist.
     
    But you can simply go to the Connections Tab in your power apps home page
    click to get the details for the Connection and it will show you any depenencies.
     
    But make sure you delete the managed Solution from Test. The only way this wont work, is if you, at any time, installed it as Unmanaged in test and left junk. If so, then go into the Default Solution and delete the junk..
     
    You can look in Default just in case no matter what.
     
     
     
     

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