diff --git a/Composer/packages/server/src/store/abh-template.json b/Composer/packages/server/src/store/abh-template.json
deleted file mode 100644
index dbfce0b3dc..0000000000
--- a/Composer/packages/server/src/store/abh-template.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "storageConnections": [
-    {
-      "id": "default",
-      "name": "Azure bot hosted",
-      "type": "LocalDisk",
-      "path": "/home/site/artifacts/bot"
-    }
-  ],
-  "recentBotProjects": [
-    {
-      "storageId": "default",
-      "path": "/home/site/artifacts/bot/editing"
-    },
-    {
-      "storageId": "integration",
-      "path": "/home/site/artifacts/bot/integration",
-      "readOnly": true
-    },
-    {
-      "storageId": "production",
-      "path": "/home/site/artifacts/bot/production",
-      "readOnly": true
-    }
-  ]
-}
diff --git a/Composer/packages/server/src/store/data.template.ts b/Composer/packages/server/src/store/data.template.ts
index 300bda11a5..3b8f0d9831 100644
--- a/Composer/packages/server/src/store/data.template.ts
+++ b/Composer/packages/server/src/store/data.template.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import settings from '../settings';
 
 export default {
+  version: 1,
   storageConnections: [
     {
       id: 'default',
diff --git a/Composer/packages/server/src/store/migrations.ts b/Composer/packages/server/src/store/migrations.ts
index 286148eeb6..8bd66df6e8 100644
--- a/Composer/packages/server/src/store/migrations.ts
+++ b/Composer/packages/server/src/store/migrations.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ import set from 'lodash/set';
 import log from '../logger';
 import settings from '../settings';
 
+import initData from './data.template';
+
 interface Migration {
   /**
    * Migration label. Will be printed to the console in debug.
@@ -33,6 +35,11 @@ const migrations: Migration[] = [
     condition: data => get(data, 'storageConnections.0.defaultPath') !== settings.botsFolder,
     run: data => set(data, 'storageConnections[0].defaultPath', settings.botsFolder),
   },
+  {
+    name: 'Re-init when version update',
+    condition: data => !data.version || data.version != initData.version,
+    run: data => initData,
+  },
 ];
 
 export function runMigrations(initialData: any): any {
diff --git a/Composer/packages/server/src/store/store.ts b/Composer/packages/server/src/store/store.ts
index 6a850a4ae7..d5eff87fa2 100644
--- a/Composer/packages/server/src/store/store.ts
+++ b/Composer/packages/server/src/store/store.ts
@@ -7,30 +7,20 @@ import path from 'path';
 import log from '../logger';
 import settings from '../settings';
 
-import localInitData from './data.template';
-import abhInitData from './abh-template.json';
+import initData from './data.template';
 import { runMigrations } from './migrations';
 
-const isHostedInAzure = !!process.env.WEBSITE_NODE_DEFAULT_VERSION;
-const dataStorePath =
-  isHostedInAzure && process.env.HOME ? path.resolve(process.env.HOME, './site/data.json') : settings.appDataPath;
+const dataStorePath = settings.appDataPath;
 
-let initData = isHostedInAzure ? abhInitData : localInitData;
-
-if (fs.existsSync(dataStorePath)) {
-  const userData = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(dataStorePath, 'utf-8'));
-  initData = runMigrations(userData);
-} else {
-  log('Database not found. Seeding data.json with: %O', initData);
-}
-
-fs.writeFileSync(dataStorePath, JSON.stringify(initData, null, 2) + '\n');
+const migrateStore = () => {
+  if (fs.existsSync(dataStorePath)) {
+    const userData = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(dataStorePath, 'utf-8'));
+    const migratedData = runMigrations(userData);
+    fs.writeFileSync(dataStorePath, JSON.stringify(migratedData, null, 2) + '\n');
+  }
+};
 
-if (isHostedInAzure) {
-  // for some very odd reason on Azure webapp, fs.readFileSync after writeFileSync doesn't
-  // always find the file, add one more io to kick the  virtual file system
-  fs.appendFileSync(dataStorePath, ' ');
-}
+migrateStore();
 
 interface KVStore {
   get(key: string, defaultValue?: any): any;