Quite often, as you are working on enterprise applications with different software development life cycle (SDLC) environments (development, test, user acceptance testing, pre-production, production, and so on), your configuration data needs to be consistent between environments. Luckily, the Dynamics 365 SDK contains a configuration migration tool specifically designed to migrate small amounts of configuration data from one environment to the other.
The configuration migration tool is not designed to migrate large amounts of data between environments. For large data migrations, consider alternatives, such as the out-of-the-box CSV import, the data loader web tool, or even third-party tools, such as the Scribe and KingswaySoft SSIS packages.
In this recipe, we will export simple account and contact data from one instance and import it to another.