How Do I: Access and Use The Business Central Administration Center?

As explained here on docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/tenant-admin-center#notification-recipients  The Business Central administration center provides a portal for administrators to perform administrative tasks for a Business Central tenant. And as a partner, you can access the center from the Partner Dashboard in the Microsoft Partner Center.

Now, I have a Business Central tenant here: https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/e57bff73-f9b4-49b5-aea5-c6fde41ac9c2, which I created as a trial, here: https://trials.dynamics.com/Dynamics365/Signup/BusinessCentral

That means I don’t have a partner, and I’m not a partner myself. So basically I don’t have access to the Partner Dashboard in the Microsoft Partner Center, so I can’t manage my tenant.

WRONG

Did you know that you can use the Business Central Administration Center by simply adding the word: /ADMIN at the end of your tenant URL?

So for example, my tenant URL is: https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/e57bff73-f9b4-49b5-aea5-c6fde41ac9c2/.

Let’s put /ADMIN behind it:

• https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/e57bff73-f9b4-49b5-aea5-c6fde41ac9c2/admin
• and see what happens:

So this means I now can:

• Create a new sandbox environment with production data
• Set the upgrade window
• Schedule an upgrade date
• Setup Tenant Notifications
• Access Environment Telemetry

More documentation is available here:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/tenant-admin-center