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For our new environment, we will definitely be applying a change-control-process. (Lesson Learned!)

However, for our current CRM 2016 on premise environment, I would like to find all customizations that consultants have made over the past years within the default solution.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks

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Rod Carlson
Database Administrator
Chicago
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Hi @Rod Carlson,

Only thing I could recommend would be the hope that even though the changes have been made directly to your default solution in Production that they may have still packaged it up in a Solution. Settings > Solutions.
Other than that I would not even know where to start!

Sorry & good luck.

Jess​

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Jessica Howes
Microsoft Dynamics Specialist
Opus
Reigate
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Original Message:
Sent: Dec 11, 2020 03:55 PM
From: Rod Carlson
Subject: Finding past changes to the Default Solution

For our new environment, we will definitely be applying a change-control-process. (Lesson Learned!)

However, for our current CRM 2016 on premise environment, I would like to find all customizations that consultants have made over the past years within the default solution.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks

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Rod Carlson
Database Administrator
Chicago
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Hopefully they at least used a different publisher so you may at least filter out additions to the solution by that.​

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Annemieke Hoogenboezem
Functioneel Beheerder CRM, MS Dynamics
Universiteit Leiden
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Original Message:
Sent: Dec 11, 2020 03:55 PM
From: Rod Carlson
Subject: Finding past changes to the Default Solution

For our new environment, we will definitely be applying a change-control-process. (Lesson Learned!)

However, for our current CRM 2016 on premise environment, I would like to find all customizations that consultants have made over the past years within the default solution.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks

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Rod Carlson
Database Administrator
Chicago
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Hi Rod,

For Microsoft created fields, entities, web resources, etc. the schema name won't have a prefix or it'll be msdyn_ (e.g. industrycode, name). Anything that was built out in the default solution would have the prefix of new_. You could try and search out anything that has that prefix. Plugins should be able to be identified as non-Microsoft. The Microsoft ones would start with Microsoft or ActivityFeed.

This might not be all encompassing but should get you moving towards your goal.

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Scott Florance
Business Applications Consultant
KTL Solutions, Inc, Frederick MD
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Original Message:
Sent: Dec 11, 2020 03:55 PM
From: Rod Carlson
Subject: Finding past changes to the Default Solution

For our new environment, we will definitely be applying a change-control-process. (Lesson Learned!)

However, for our current CRM 2016 on premise environment, I would like to find all customizations that consultants have made over the past years within the default solution.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks

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Rod Carlson
Database Administrator
Chicago
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