Transfer Environment in Business Central
Introduction:
The Transfer Environment feature in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central allows you to seamlessly move an environment from one Microsoft Entra tenant to another. Here are the key points:
Purpose:
- Consolidation: When companies merge or acquire others, they may want to consolidate their Business Central environments into a single tenant.
- Partner Demos: Partners can transfer demo environments to customers for testing.
Self-Service Process:
- Starting with the 2023 release wave 2, administrators can initiate transfers without manual paperwork.
- Internal administrators in both the source and target tenants collaborate for the transfer.
Steps:
- Request: An internal administrator in the source tenant requests the transfer.
- Acceptance: An internal administrator in the destination tenant accepts the transfer.
- The environment is then moved seamlessly.
This streamlined process enhances flexibility and efficiency for managing Business Central environments across different tenants.
Pre-requisites:
- Business Central OnCloud
Steps:
- In business central, go to Settings > Admin Center
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2. We are going to transfer “Shubham” to different tenant. Click on “Environment Transfers”
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3. Go to Transfer Environment.
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4. Select the environment that you are going to transfer and enter the Destination Tenant id. It is also possible to schedule the transfer within 2 weeks and set the time when it should be transferred.
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5. Now go to Destination Environment > Admin Center.
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6. Click on Environment Transfer > Receive Environment.
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7. Enter the Source Tenant id (source from where the environment is to be send). Click on Next.
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8. After that in Pending Incoming transfers the Environment will be displayed. Now just click on the Environment and Confirm.
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9. The Environment is being successfully transferred.
Note: If the destination tenant already has 1 Production environment and 3 Sandboxes, environment transfer is not possible. For successful transfer, the destination tenant must have no existing production environments (if you are transferring a production environment) or fewer than 3 sandboxes (if you are transferring sandbox).
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Conclusion:
In conclusion, this blog has provided valuable insights about how to transfer environment in business central.
Thank you very much for reading. I hope this helps!