title: CRM 2011 to CRM 2016 Migration
body: <p>I am planning to upgrade my CRM (On premises) 2011 to CRM 2016 (On premises). And now I am looking for the best way to migrate the data. By the way, there're a lot of custom data (entities, fields, WFs).
  Microsoft recommends a step-by-step upgrade 2011->2013->2015->2016 (because db strucutre changed significantly, as they say), but this is not the best way for me. I want to do clean installation first and the move the data from 2011 to 2016.
  The solution I've came to is to investigate the new structure then write custom SQL scripts, that will do the work. Is there any out-of-the-box way?</p>
  
  <p>Another question is about CRM editions. Microsoft offers Dynamics CRM 365 (On premises) and Dynamics CRM 2016 (On premises). What is the difference? As I could found, 365 is something like a subscription license, when 2016 is one-time payment?</p>
  
  <p><strong>TL;DR:</strong></p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <ol>
    <li>Best way to upgrade from 2011 to 2016 CRM, best practices.</li>
    <li>Best way to migrate data from 2011 to clean 2016 CRM. </li>
    <li>Difference between
    CRM 2016 and CRM 365 (On premises, both)</li>
    </ol>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Thank you so much for upcoming answers.</p>