It seems that Microsoft have given us the ability to transfer instances of Organisations from one system to another (regardless of deployment), this is going to be a must have tool for when deploying to the cloud.
Taken from the official site:
The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Instance Adapter, an additional adapter for use with Connector for Microsoft Dynamics, allows you to synchronize data between two Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 organizations. The adapter supports communication between two endpoints that exist on any authentication/hosting environment (on-premise, online, IFD, etc.) This means that you can leverage this new adapter to move Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 data between test and production servers or from on-premises to the cloud.
The Instance adapter can be found here
Thanks
Jonathan