Dynamics 365 - Auditing is disabling after published an unmanaged solution

Recently, I've encountered a very weird situation where the auditing automatically disabling after deployed the unmanaged solution. This caused me a lots of trouble, because the audit history was totally mess up. So, I decided to look into it.

First, i went to check the Audit Setting under Global, Entity and Field.

Global Audit

Entity Audit

Field Audit

The result is positive, everything is turn on. Hmmm, I was scratching my head but after some investigation and testing, finally I've found out the reason behind it.

Root Cause

The "Include entity metadata" is not checked when the time I adding the existing entity into solution.

If you didn't tick this checkbox and deploy to the destination environment, it will revert the entity setting back to the original setting.


Solution

I hope this will help you to save some time and Happy CRM-ing.