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Case Study 3 - Contoso Pharmaceuticals Background Contoso Pharmaceuticals manufactures and sells drugs to retail and wholesale pharmacies, hospitals, and research facilities. The company plans to…

The correct answer is B. Create packages for Package Deployer. To efficiently deploy consistent customizations and configuration data to multiple distinct Dynamics 365 Sales instances, the Package Deployer tool is the most suitable method.

Submitted by kim_seoul· Apr 18, 2026

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Case Study 3 - Contoso Pharmaceuticals Background Contoso Pharmaceuticals manufactures and sells drugs to retail and wholesale pharmacies, hospitals, and research facilities. The company plans to implement Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Finance. Current environment Contoso maintains a Microsoft Excel workbook that lists all drugs they supply. Pharmacies submit order requests through email. All information at customer locations is handwritten by customer representatives. Contoso uses Cerner, which is a medical industry application that uses a proprietary database. Some accounts are referrals from other pharmacies. Every pharmacy has its own Dynamics 365 Sales instance. Requirements General Contoso wants to ensure that there is minimal custom code and custom connectors in the system. Accounts Ensure that the names of the pharmacies are synced between the accounting and the customer management systems. Account numbers should be entered automatically into the pharmaceutical system that is in a Cerner database and kept in sync. When the account is entered into the system, extra fields must appear if the referral customer box is selected. If the box is not selected, the extra fields must not appear. A trigger must be created that changes the Priority field to 1 in the Account record 10 days after an Account record is created. A field named Priority_Trigger must be created to trigger the Priority field. A field named Facility type field must be added in order to select whether a customer is a retail pharmacy, wholesale pharmacy, research facility, or hospital. Users UserA must be able to create and publish Power Apps apps. UserB must be the owner of all the systems and be able to provide permissions and create all new environments. UserC must be able to create apps connected to the systems and update the security roles and entities. Pharmacy representatives must only be able to run the apps and access their own records. Access to the accounting Power Apps app must be restricted to accounting team members. End users must have minimum access to the required systems. Only supervisors must be able to view phone numbers in the Accounts form. Developers must be able to create new apps for all users. Sales users must only have access to their own records. Reporting Pharmacy orders must be displayed in four graphs as follows: Annual revenue over $100,000 Annual revenues under $100,000 Research facilities Hospitals The graphs must be interactive, and users must be able to drill down on any dimension. Customizations Ensure that notifications are sent to the sales team when a lead is added by using Slack. Ensure that leads have a review stage added to the sales process. Doctors must be manually added to a custom entity named Doctor if the doctor is not listed. Refill dates for customer prescriptions should be automatically determined and a notification should be sent to the customer. Fields for the doctor's name and phone number must be displayed in the customer record. The doctor entered on the customer's record must be validated against doctors that exist in the system. The new solution will be sold to other pharmacies for use. The application must not allow changes to be made. The solution must be error free so that when it is installed in other environments it does not cause issues. Mobile app A custom mobile app must be created to allow salespeople to add or search by pharmacy name. Pharmacy records must be uniquely identified by pharmacy name, address, contact name, and phone number. When a pharmacy is added by using the mobile app, the phone number must be validated to be all digits. You need to create an application to deploy to other pharmacies. What should you do?

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  • ANavigate to Customize the System and export everything to a managed solution.
  • BCreate packages for Package Deployer.
  • CCreate customizations with metadata in Organization Services.
  • DWrite a Web API to move customizations.

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Why each option

To efficiently deploy consistent customizations and configuration data to multiple distinct Dynamics 365 Sales instances, the Package Deployer tool is the most suitable method.

ANavigate to Customize the System and export everything to a managed solution.

Exporting a managed solution via 'Customize the System' is a manual process for a single solution and does not facilitate deploying configuration data or orchestrating multiple components into a robust deployment package for numerous instances.

BCreate packages for Package Deployer.Correct

The Dynamics 365 Package Deployer is a tool specifically designed to bundle multiple solutions, configuration data, and other files into a single deployable package, ideal for applying standardized configurations across several distinct environments with minimal custom code.

CCreate customizations with metadata in Organization Services.

Creating customizations with metadata in Organization Services involves using the Dynamics 365 SDK/API to programmatically define or modify metadata, which would require extensive custom development for deployment rather than leveraging a built-in deployment tool.

DWrite a Web API to move customizations.

Writing a Web API to move customizations implies significant custom coding to manage the deployment process, directly contradicting the requirement for 'minimal custom code and custom connectors' and being less efficient than a specialized deployment tool.

Concept tested: Dynamics 365 solution deployment to multiple instances

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/developer/package-deployer-tool

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