How To Export Bacpac From Tier1

Export a bacpac file from a Tier1 environment

This how-to will guide you while you will be exporting a bacpac file from a Tier1 environment.

Prerequisites

• Machine with D365FO installed
• PowerShell 5.1
• d365fo.tools module installed
• d365fo.tools module loaded into a PowerShell session

Please visit the Install as an Administrator or the Install as a Non Administrator tutorials to learn how to install the tools.

Please visit the Import d365fo.tools module tutorial to see the different ways you can load the d365fo.module into a PowerShell session.

Stop all D365FO services

We need to stop all D365FO related services, to ensure that our database isn't being updated while we are exporting it. Type the following command:

Stop-D365Environment -All

Export bacpac file

We will now export the bacpac file, and instruct the command to output the progress, so we can see that things are running as expected. Type the following command:

New-D365Bacpac -ExportModeTier1 -ShowOriginalProgress

The command will run for quite some time, but it will eventually exit and output the file location of the newly created bacpac file.

Closing comments

In this how to we showed you how you can create a valid bacpac file from a Tier1 environment. The bacpac file is prepped for either other Tier1 environments, but is also valid for Tier2+ environments, through the LCS portal.