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Building the tower of Babylon – Importing CRM Organizations with different base Language

Building the tower of Babylon – Importing CRM Organizations with different base Language

Consider the following scenario:

An organization has two different implementation of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 and plan to upgrade both to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 as two separate organizations in a multi-tenancy deployment.
Each Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 implementation has a different base language, one has English and the other has Hebrew.

Is this feasible at all? Can a multi-tenancy deployment host two implementations with different base languages, upgraded from version 3.0?

I encountered a similar scenario lately and since I could not find a straight answer, I conducted a little experiment. It involved two major steps:

  1. Upgrade both implementations from version 3.0 to version 4.0. One implementation was upgraded using an Enterprise license (The English base language implementation) 
  2. Using the Deployment Manager, import the The Hebrew base language implementation database into the The English base language implementation (Enterprise license).

Surprisingly, this works. A multi-tenancy deployment can host two upgraded implementations with different base languages. I assume it can support more than two different base languages, but it is up to you to experiment with such shenanigans.

Published Tuesday, September 01, 2009 3:41 PM by Yaniv Arditi

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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 6:33 PM by Building the tower of Babylon ??? Importing CRM Organizations with … « crm like soft

# re: Building the tower of Babylon – Importing CRM Organizations with different base Language

Hi,

does this also work for the standard export/importcustomizations tool in MS CRM 4.0?

--> can you export customization from one base language environment (English) to import it in another base language environment (Hebrew)?

Friday, September 18, 2009 5:48 PM by Veerle

# re: Building the tower of Babylon – Importing CRM Organizations with different base Language

Hi,

Yes you can. Off course, you will have to import the required translation labels.

Yaniv

Saturday, September 19, 2009 11:32 AM by Yaniv Arditi

# re: Building the tower of Babylon – Importing CRM Organizations with different base Language

Hi Yaniv,

thanks for your quick reply!

Have you tried this before? (Exporting the whole customimzation file from base language English and import the whole file into base language "NON-English"?) I'm just wondering whether or not this would give problems for the standard entities of CRM...

Was it wrong to think that it was only supported to export/import customizatons from and to an environment that has the same base language? (or did I dream that? :) )

Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:18 PM by Veerle

# re: Building the tower of Babylon – Importing CRM Organizations with different base Language

Hi Veerle,

I tried this only with custom entities, which worked just fine. As you suggest, I suspect that out-of-the-box entities would not go through the same process correctly.

Yaniv

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:15 PM by Yaniv Arditi

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