Need to move PowerApps Application from unmanaged solution to managed solution (Production and Testing)

[ApoorvaHS]

I require guidance on transitioning the production and testing environments of our PowerApps application from unmanaged to managed solutions. All three-environment solution is in unmanaged solution. Application in all three environments are working fine. kindly help me regarding this.

Your assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

[Pavan_Mani_Deep]

Hi @ApoorvaHS 

AFAIK, you can follow below approach.

To transition your PowerApps application from unmanaged to managed solutions, follow these steps:

1. Backup Your Solution: Before making any changes, create a backup of your current unmanaged solution. This ensures that you have a copy of your solution in case anything goes wrong during the transition.

2. Export Your Unmanaged Solution: Export the unmanaged solution from your development environment. This solution will be used as the basis for creating the managed solution.

3. Convert to Managed Solution: In the Power Platform admin center, go to the Solutions tab and click on the unmanaged solution you want to convert. In the command bar, select "Export as Managed." This will create a managed solution based on your unmanaged solution.

4. Import the Managed Solution: Import the managed solution into your target environment (e.g., production or testing). Make sure to select the correct target environment and choose to "Overwrite Customizations" if prompted.

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[TuongDoan]

You can create a deployment pipeline to deploy from Dev environment (unmanaged) to Testing and Prod environment as managed solution.

This is the most recommended way because the system will handle everything for you. You just have to point out which is the original environment and which is the target environment, the you can deploy every solution you want

Learn more about pipeline here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/pipelines

About setting up the pipeline: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/set-up-pipelines

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[parvezghumra]

@ApoorvaHS Here are the steps you need to follow:

1. Export your solution as managed from your source development environment

2. Delete the unmanaged solution from your Test and Production environments. This will not delete the objects that are in the solution, they will remain. This is intentional as you don't want the objects to be totally deleted. You want to convert them

3. Import the managed solution you exported in step 1 above, into the Test and Production environments. There's an option available in the solution import experience called 'Convert to Managed'. This option converts any unmanaged objects to managed if found in a managed state in the solution being imported. I'm not sure if this is option is available in the modern solution import experience in the Maker portal. If it is not, you will need try this approach using the classic experience, or alternatively using the PAC CLI, Power Platform Build Tools extension using Azure DevOps pipelines/releases or GitHub Actions, or programmatically

[Pavan_Mani_Deep]

Hi @ApoorvaHS 

Just to add to my previous response, you can't remove the unmanaged components in production until unless you delete each and every component in the solution.

Deleting unmanaged solution just deletes the solution record but the components in the solution remains.

As suggested by @TuongDoan , you can use Power Platform Pipelines for moving the solution to Production but for using this feature your Test and Prod environments should be Managed environment, else you can't.

If your Test, Prod are not managed environments, you can follow the steps as mentioned in my previous reply. Hope this helps..

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