One of the things that I like about the Dynamics CRM product from Microsoft is how easy it is to get things done without writing code. However, many times, you need to get your hands dirty in order to create solutions of real business value. 
Transporting standard solutions/customizations between a development and production environment is easy, but for custom code, it gets harder. But Microsoft released a new toolkit on April the 13th, that will simplify this.

A qoute from the MS Blog:
Integrate the Build and Deploy Process
Build scripts provided with the Toolkit simplify the process of building and deploying a CRM solution. They prepare the environment, obtain and publish the latest customizations, perform code analysis, register CRM Plug-ins, deploy the solution and execute Unit Test cases. 

Deploy Across Multiple Servers
The deployment tool assists in deployment and maintenance of Windows installer packages across multiple environments.

Read the full details here. http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2009/04/13/announcing-the-microsoft-dynamics-crm-dev-toolkit.aspx. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Developer Toolkit is available free of charge from the MSDN Code Galleries at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/E2DevTkt.
We will be testing this in the project starting May 4th. I will write about our findings then.