Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Chi-Kit Chan

Gopal Parupudi

Adil Ahmed Sherwani

Kevin Joseph Fischer

Mahmood Gulam Qadir

Anubhuti Manohar

Naveen Reddy Karri

Jayaram R Iyer

Christine H Tran

Jason Minick

Many current computer software platforms support user customization and version upgradability. Unfortunately, upgrading a computer software platform may result in significant loss of user customization data. Additionally, it may be advantageous for users to export and import their customization data to share as customized business solutions with other instances of the computer software platforms. Accordingly, a technique for creating and importing a configuration package and a technique for creating and utilizing an update package is disclosed herein. The configuration package allows configuration data of elements within a computer software platform to be exported and imported. The update package allows elements to be exported within the update package. The update package may be utilized in upgrading, overwriting, and/or creating a new instance of elements. When an existing element is upgraded with an update element within the update package, the existing element's original configuration may be retained.

Serviceability and configuration management

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Chi-Kit Chan