D365 Can I update systemuserid?

Question

In our D365 online environment we have multiple sandboxes and production instances. In each of these the systemuserid is different (user import was done before I joined..). This mismatch in SystemUserId is also happening when new user is added. (my own user record for example that was added last week)

I know updating systemuserid in onPrem was unsupported but was possible but with online environment what are my best options to fix this issue? With different Guids, all references (workflow etc) are failing when moving solution across different environments.

Coming here as my last option as I have googled and looked in to SDK already.

Thanks,

Answer 1

You can't update an ID at all. I usually copy my production database in all my dev environment to avoid this problem. D365 also make it easy to do so. You should take a moment between two sprints to do it because it can help to have to system user ID and entities object type code identical everywhere.

Answer 2

hardcoding data into processes is a bad practice, makes your processes really rigid. You can create a configuration entity, stab the sys admin id there and retrieve it. If you have a custom workflow activity you will be able to retrieve the record and use it in every configuration task.