Rollback Solution

[akandis]

Hi all!

I would like to know if there is any way to rollback a solution.

Scenario:

I have a Soluction called "Health Management" and I have 3 deployments with the following versions:
- 1.0.0.1

- 1.0.0.2

- 1.0.0.3 (actual)

What I have to do to rollback to the version 1.0.0.2?

Thanks 🙂

[ChrisPiasecki · Accepted solution]

Hi @akandis,

Is your deployed solution managed or unmanaged? If it is managed, you have the ability to uninstall the solution. However, do be aware that data loss will occur for any new tables or new columns to an existing table when you uninstall the solution they were introduced in.

If the solution is unmanaged, unfortunately you will have to remove each component manually. Note that the same data loss scenario applies when deleting any tables or columns. 

The other option, and as a general best practice, is to take a backup of the environment prior to the deployment of a solution. If the deployment goes unsuccessful and requires a rollback, you can simply restore the database. Note that all data and customizations added after the backup was taken will be lost after a restore, so you'll want to ensure sufficient smoke testing occurs so that any rollback decision can be made before users are let back into the system and begin entering business data again.

You can review the following references for more details. 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/maintain-managed-solutions

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/backup-restore-environments

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[RobBoyers]

Assuming you are working with managed solutions, please read this link 

Maintain managed solutions (Microsoft Dataverse) - Power Platform | Microsoft Docs

[virakones]

@ChrisPiasecki @RobBoyers 

When reading the documentation here: Maintain managed solutions (Microsoft Dataverse) - Power Platform | Microsoft Docs

"If you want to go back to the behavior in a previous version, simply re-install the previous version. This overwrites any solution components with the definitions from the previous version but does not remove solution components added in the newer version. Those newer solution components remain in the system but have no effect because the older solution component definitions will not use them.

During the installation of a previous version of a solution Dataverse will confirm that the person installing the previous version wants to proceed."

Reinstalling the solution is described - however, when I'm in the make.powerapps dashboard and attempt to import a solution of a lower version, it won't let me since it's expecting a higher version number

What does "reinstall" mean in this description?

[asadrajput1]

Hi. Did you get an answer to this question?

Thanks

[Sreenath01]

Hi @virakones, were you able to crack the statement mentioned in that documentation? Is there anyone who can help what reinstall previous version means?

[virakones]

Nothing yet, aside from deleting the managed solution and the "reinstalling:" (importing) as the lower version solution, resharing my apps, etc. I had not found an easy solution to rollback unfortunately.

[Sreenath01]

Thank you for the response. I tried one way but not sure if it’s supported or not. I have the previous version of solution zip file. I’ve extracted it, updated the solution.xml file by incrementing the solution version in version tag, rezipped it and deployed the solution. By this way, without touching any components and just by incrementing the solution version, I was able to restore to its previous state(not really to the previous version number)