My wife asked: “Managed solutions, why bother?”
I shrugged and hit the docs.
First of all, she is talking about our own in‑house tweaks here; ISV should keep rocking managed, obviously.
So far, I only found two benefits, not enough to convince her.
1️⃣ Auto‑delete safety net
Need to retire a field, table, or web resource?
Drop it from your managed solution, ship an update, and it vanishes from every target environment. No midnight click‑fest hunting leftovers.
Unmanaged keeps the ghosts, so someone still has to mop them up.
Honestly, a quick manual delete on a lazy Friday might be easier for her than wrestling with managed solutions.
2️⃣ Pipeline boarding pass
Dataverse Pipelines insist on managed solutions.
Want a nice click‑and‑promote Dev → Test → Prod pipeline? Easy to setup inside of the platform? Managed holds this ticket.
But is there technically a reason for MS to limit this only for managed?
Got other reasons? Enlighten my wife please?
