In Dynamics 365 Business Central, a sandbox is an environment totally isolated from a production instance, where you can develop, test, run demos, and play with the service, without affecting the real production data.
You can create a sandbox environment by connecting to your Business Central instance, clicking on the search button in the top bar, and searching for the word sandbox (or, if you prefer, by accessing the Administrator | IT Administration | General menu in Dynamics 365 Business Central):
Searching for sandbox in Dynamics 265 Business Central
You will be presented with two main choices:
- Creating an online sandbox
- Creating a container-based sandbox
These are the differences between the two choices:
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Online Sandbox |
Container-Based Sandbox |
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Dynamics 365 Cloud Service |
Run in Azure VM or locally |
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Managed by Microsoft |
Managed by... |
