

This is plenty of time to cross train to D365FO assuming you have the spare time of course, but the costs will soon add up. If you keep your development environment on for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week you can expect to pay around £75GBP / $95USD per month. The following table shows the rough costs that you can expect to pay to host the recommended development environment in Azure (December 2018): Instance Your tenant administrator will provision a development environment for you, and you can see the details of your VM and connect to it directly from LCS.

Please remember that it is your responsibility to ensure that you read and comply with all associated software licences. If you are not associated with a customer or partner, you will need to sign up for an on-premise trial of the on premise offering before you can access LCS, as the off-premise trial will only give you a 30 day trial of the cloud based front-end user experience. If you have received a preview invitation, follow the steps in the link above. Whether you choose to run your development environment in Azure or locally on your own hardware, you will need access to Lifecycle Services (LCS) – the cloud based portal which manages the application lifecycle of your D365FO implementation.įinance and Operations and Retail are available only to existing Microsoft Dynamics 365 channel partners and customers who are currently enrolled in the Business Ready Enhancement Plan (BREP) service plan. If you are looking to move your development career towards D365FO, or if you are already a seasoned Dynamics AX developer and want to cross train, read this article to understand how to create your own development environment and the steps to follow towards certification.
