View differences between AX 2012 environments

Question

I have two Dynamics AX 2012 environments (Test and Live). Multiple developers from multiple companies have been making uncoordinated changes to the two environments without version control. Before upgrading the two environments to R2 I would like to get an overview of the differences between the AOTs of the two environments, to avoid overwriting work-in-progress on testing or moving unfinished features to production.

What is the most efficient way of comparing two AX 2012 environments?

Answer 1

I found a solution that works, not ideal, but works.

Export what you want to compare from each environment and then use a compare tool, (I use Beyond Compare) to compare the resulting XPOs.