Question

Your team maintains a managed solution for a model-driven app. During development, makers edited the app directly in the shared development environment, and their unmanaged customizations are now mixed together. You need to establish a repeatable ALM process so that future changes can be tracked, reviewed, and deployed reliably. Which approach should you adopt as the source of truth for the solution?

Accepted Answer

Export the unmanaged solution, unpack it with the Solution Packager (via Power Platform Build Tools), and commit the unpacked components to a source control repository as the source of truth.

Answer

Treat the development environment as the source of truth and export a managed solution manually whenever a release is needed.

Answer

Export the managed solution and store the .zip file directly in a document library that developers download before each change.

Answer

Enable auditing in the development environment and use the audit log to reconstruct changes when building each release.