Ability to create a starter Portal vs Custom Portal

[Justin365]

Hi  Couple of questions I am trying to create a fresh "Starter Portal"

Not a Custom Portal... I created a CDS only environment and was able to make a starter portal but within a d365 environment I can only create a custom Portal

1. How can you create a "starter portal" all I can see is a custom portal when i select from new portal from Blank.

2. is it possible to migrate a starter portal into a custom portal if they are in different environments using xrm portal records mover tool? 

[OOlashyn]

Hi @Justin365,

Starter Portal is an equivalent for Custom Portal for CDS only instances. See this article from Colin Vermander. So in D365, you can only create Custom Portal as a pure "starter" portal.

Being honest never migrated portal from CDS only to D365 environments but I don't think there that will be any issues as they are basically the same (even according to docs - see here to find more about available templates and their comparison).