Move Infopath forms to new SharePoint farm

Recently I was working on some infopath forms for a customer. At first I had made these forms in my own development SharePoint farm together with all the data connections (.udcx files). I had to move all the forms to the SharePoint farm of my customer. In this post you can find how I managed this and got everything working in the new farm. I have not done any research on the internet for this article, so there might be other (and/or better) options to do this. If so, please let me know, you can always post a comment to my posts.

1. On my development farm I saved all the data connections (.udcx files) 
2. In the udcx files I changed the URLs of my devfarm with those of the customers farm
3. I uploaded the changed udcx files to the DCL (Data Connection Library) in the new farm
4. And I opened the saved forms on a computer that contained Infopath and had a connection to the new farm
5. In every form I deleted the data sources because they still pointed to the udcx files in my devfarm and added the data connections in the new farm
6. There were some udcx files that pointed to lists in the farm (i.e. a currencies list), besides deploying these lists in the new farm, I also had to reconfigure the fields in my forms that used these lists. When I executed step 5 these fields lost there configuration.
7.  Now I published all forms to the new farm URL and uploaded them in the forms template library in the SharePoint Central Administration

I hope this manual is helpful for you. Please let me know if you have any questions or remarks.

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