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Following on from part two in this series, this post talks about how to bring over any email attachments from a source CRM instance in to the destination CRM instance. Email messages are it’s own entity, and these will need to be migrated first. However, this will not bring over any of the email attachments themselves. For this, we need to add in a new data flow to achieve this.
First create a new Data Flow task (see part one for this). Add in your Source CRM step, select the instance from the Connection Manager, and set the Batch Size to 1 (more on that in a moment). Using a FetchXML query, set your filtering with some conditions based on the created on field of the emails. Probably a good idea to do a relatively small number to test with first and make sure it’s all working.
Add your destination CRM step and select the correct environment from the connection manager field. Your action will be Create, and the destination entity is activitymimeattachment. Set the Batch Size to 1, and then tick to enable multithreaded writing. Set the number of threads to 16.
If you want some more detail on how batch sizes and multi-threading work, click on the information icon next to the enable multithreaded writing box. This will provide you with some performance tips. In here you will see details of what batch sizes are recommended. Notice that it clearly states if working with activitymimeattachments you should be very conservative with the number with 1 being the safest. This is especially important if you are moving files from a very slow on premise server. Anything higher and your data flow can end up failing due to lack of resources.
Clicking on the Columns tab on the menu for the destination, make sure your mappings are set to the same as below. Click OK. Finally, add your error log file step (see more on part two) and make sure you are sending your errors to file for review. Start your data flow and sit back! Your job ‘should‘ be done. 🙂
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I’m taking on a challenge: walking 50 KM in under 10 hours in honour of two incredible women who are both bravely facing chemotherapy right now.
🩷 I’m fundraising for Cancer Research UK 🩷
If you can help, every donation, big or small, helps bring us closer to a cure