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Prevent Developers from publishing as Dev

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Posted on by Mkublbock 41
Hey there!
 
In our build process we publish to our Customer Environments via automatic Release Pipelines. Sometimes our Developers accidentally publish their apps from VSCode into the Customer Environment. This leads to issues when trying to deploy apps with our release pipelines because you cannot publish an app as PTE if it is already deployed as Dev.
 
I am wondering if there is any way we can disable publishing as Dev in certain environments? Or maybe you have some best practices that you use to prevent this from happening.
 
Any help is appreciated, thanks!
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    Wayne R 8 on at
    Hi there,
     
    To my knowledge there is no silver bullet to block any developer from posting into an environment as a DEV extension. There are however processes that can prevent the accidental deployment to environments that should be deployed as PTE.
     
    Traditionally you have 3 environments, DEV, UAT and PROD. In any BC development repository there is a launch.json file that contains the connection details to each environment the develop wants to deploy to.
     
    As a rule, we do not allow any direct publishing to any environment that is not DEV, so no other environment besides the DEV environment's details are allowed in the launch.json file, debugging takes exception as those details are temporarily added and then removed. If forbidden environments are in the launch.json file, it is easy to select the wrong environment and publish to them by accident.
     
    Alternatively, you can make use of permissions in BC to prevent publishing, but that depends on the environment and who should be allowed to publish extensions. If the user that accidently publishes directly to a Prod environment (as DEV) is meant to have the permissions as they generally deploy extension as PTE, then permissions won't really help. If a user is "SUPER", they will be able to publish. If you remove the "D365 Extension MGT" permission from a restricted user, they will not be able to publish any extensions, DEV or PTE.
     
    Hope this helps.
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    YUN ZHU 97,264 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    I’ve looked into this issue extensively, but a viable workaround or solution has yet to emerge.
    For example, preventing insertion during the insertion of an application into table 2000000153 "NAV App Installed App", or adding logic to the OnInstall codeunit, both failed; the Dev extension was still installed.
    If you find a better solution, please share it.
     
    Thanks.
    ZHU

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