Finding URL to dependencies on installed managed solutions

Uninstalling a managed solution? (ie Deleting it) Getting a bad error message saying you can´t? (Cannot Delete Component) And you don't know how to find what the dependencies are for the solution? So did I. And perhaps you, as I, did not notice the small link in the dialog which says "Details" that takes you directly to the "Dependencies" page.

Click this to go see the dependencies for the solution,
or follow the instructions below to manually generate an URL 

So, if you did miss that, or for some other reason want to know how to get to the dependency page of a solution, read on.

I found this blog article: https://www.interactivewebs.com/blog/index.php/crm-2015/crm-2015-2013-find-dependencies-for-managed-solution/

which described how to find the dependencies in a nice way in a CRM 2013/2015 on-prem environment where you have access to the database. But I was using Dynamics 365 (8.2) so that was no option.

The one part you cannot do in an online instance, in that article is to open the SQL database, in case you tried. So the trick was to find some other way to find the guid of the managed solution and it is of course quite simple, just right click it and select "Email a link" and your favorite email editor will open with the guid shown and you just have to know which part to cut, see the picture below:

Cut the guid between the %7b abd %7d which are the { and the }

Then just follow the instructions from the blog above and insert the guid into the url provided:

https://YOUR CRM URL/tools/dependency/dependencyviewdialog.aspx?objectid=GUID&objecttype=7100&operationtype=dependenciesforuninstall

Replacing "YOUR CRM URL" with the url to your D365 and GUID with the guid above.

That got me to this page, which after some de-privatization looks like a document from the Swedish tax authorities:

Thanks again to InteractiveWebs for the original article.

Gustaf Westerlund
MVP, Founder and CTO at CRM-konsulterna AB
www.crmkonsulterna.se