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Test Data Transfer Tool (Beta) [AX 2012]

Recently Microsoft released a beta for transferring data called

Test Data Transfer Tool (beta) for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 [AX 2012]

As described on technet. This tool allows you to transfer data from one environment to a test environment (non-production) via a command line.

Installation is very simple. Just follow the wizard.

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Once installed. In viewing the folder you find this.

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DP.exe is the main executable to run.

An xpo which you can import in to AX. This is just 1 job that allows you to run it against your environment to create a meta data. This meta data looks like this and is found under the [Lists] folder.

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Under the lists folder you also find some exclude files. These files contain table names which are excluded as part of the export. ie. AIF setups, security setups etc.

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Now lets see it in action.

Run an export via command line. This will generate a file like below in the specified directory.

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Refer to technet for detail on what each file is.

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