CRM 2011 Automated Deployments – Backup Databases

Another time consuming task of deploying software updates is backing up existing application files, configuration files, databases etc etc which adds to the overall deployment time. These tasks can be automated. In this blog post we’ll look at automating the backup of CRM 2011 SQL databases before a deployment. You’ll need to backup the following CRM databases: • MSCRM_CONFIG • *_MSCRM SQL command to backup a database is: backup database <database name> to disk = 'd...(read more)