Better demo data for Dynamics CRM 2011 [CRM] • David Vidmar

Few days ago Microsoft Dynamics CRM Product Management team released a set of demo data for Dynamics CRM 2011 Online.

This it contains more sample data than default on-premise data so I wondered if it can be imported to on-premise version. the answer - with just a bit of tweaking it can!

Here are the steps:

Download sample data and demo scripts
Unzip Admin-1.zip and open Users.xml in Excel
Create all users from Users.xml in your domain
Change the domain in “User Name” column in Users.xml file to match your domain name
Create new organization
Create USD currency if this isn’t your default currency
Import Admin-1.zip and ignore error about Users.xml
Import fixed Users.xml file
Follow instructions on blog post for the rest of the files…
Don’t forget to go through the demo scripts and explore the data.