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Migrating configuration changes

As organizations make changes to one environment, those changes often need to be carried over to another environment. Configuration definitions are stored as metadata. During the development life cycle, you might want to repeatedly migrate the configurations to move or sync the changes. Migration can be done in the following two ways:

• Manual Migration: The components that are not available in metadata API need to be migrated manually in each environment. Modifications must be repeated in every organization.
• Metadata Migration: The components that are available in the metadata API, can be migrated automatically from one organization to another. There are a few automated ways to move metadata from one organization to ...