Data Migration Wizard: Express versus Standard Mode

re: Data Migration Wizard: Express versus Standard Mode

Paul Atkinson — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:05:46 GMT

I have a data migration defined in the DMM that cannot be done through the built-in Data imports. It works great, but what I really need is a way to make it happen every night when the data is exported. Do you know a way to kick off the DMM in Express mode unattended?

Thanks for any help,

Paul

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:23:10 GMT

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re: Data Migration Wizard: Express versus Standard Mode

Sandeep — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:06:15 GMT

The express mode of DMW operates in exceptional mode, i.e., when there is an exceptional case of an entity/attribute being not mapped, it halts and asks for the input. Also, there might be action needed from user for errors at various phases. Hence, DMW doesn’t completely support the command-line silent migration scenario. Those few mouse clicks are still needed to get it to the final migration.

re: Data Migration Wizard: Express versus Standard Mode

Paul Atkinson — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:27:23 GMT

What I hope to see in a future revision of the data migration tool is the ability to kick it off on the command line...if it requires input that's not provided in a command line argument, it could throw an error and stop. For well-defined inputs, though, it would be very convenient -- in fact, required by one of my customers -- to do a nightly import of new data.

In the mean time, I'm exploring software to perform the mouse clicks by rote.