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We are starting to use BC in our company.
We are ISV on BC on-premise and we have decided to introduce it for our accounting using an on-cloud deployment.

We have purchased three essential licenses for our users and we have created a production company.

We know that Global Admin and D365 Admin can access the portal and the environment to read-only consult and manage permissions.

We have some developers to develop some extensions but they cannot connect to manage extensions or download symbols or execute any debug.
I have to assign a license in order to allow any development activities.

Is there a method in order to consent my developer to do his job without a license?

Graziano.

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Inge M. Bruvik 1,111 Moderator on at

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If you are an ISV for Business Central you can use your partner license to run BC in Docker and your developers can develop and test your Business Central solutions against a Docker container.

Read more about it here:

docs.microsoft.com/.../devenv-running-container-development

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Graziano Tartari 222 on at

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NorthW,

you are talking about an on-premise workaround we use in dev env for our costumers.
I'm sorry but my company want to use a SaaS cloud deployment for company BC.

I'd know if I have to move a license from an user to a developer each time I need to publish or debug or if I have to buy another license for developer.

Is there some token method to use?

Graziano.

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Inge M. Bruvik 1,111 Moderator on at

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Using a Docker container is considered best practice even when you develop and test a solution for BC Online. When you create the container you can chose if you want it to emulate an online sandbox or an on-prem installation.

If you have customers running BC Online you should be registered as their partner in Azure AD and have delegated admin rights in their Azure AD. If that is in place your developer an consultants can access your customers environments with out a dedicated license.

If you want real online dev enviornments as a Microsoft partner you can go to demos.microsoft.com and create a BC tenant there.

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YUN ZHU 95,750 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi, Sorry I have not tried whether Delegated Admin can publish extension and Debug to the environment. But I think you can let your partners try it.

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

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Graziano Tartari 222 on at

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NorthW,

I'm the partner of myself. I'm the buyer and the customer of this deployment. It would be interesting if I can use a delegated admin for myself. I understood that I can develop on a docker env but I need at the end to publish my extension on production and now my developer need a license to do it.

Regards,

Graziano.

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Steven Renders 5,672 Moderator on at

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To develop and publish for BC Saas, you don't need a special development license.

You need to be an admin in O365 and a SUPER user in BC, with a 'normal license'.

You then create a BC Saas Sandbox to develop. After that you deploy to BC Saas production, using the extension management page upload button.

(for BC on prem you need to buy a development license)

Here's some more documentation:

Getting Started with AL - Business Central | Microsoft Docs

Then, docker is nice and recommended by Microsoft, however, in my experience it is very buggy and unstable and requires to much hardware resources. Using a Saas sandbox is perfectly fine too.

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Graziano Tartari 222 on at

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Ok, you said "normal license". What do you mean for "normal license", essential, team member???

I need another license so... for my developer... it sounds no good...

I hoped to avoid it or at least a less expensive license like team member.

If I could do the dev stuff with super and team license it would be great.

Regards,

Graziano.

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Rehan Satti 634 on at

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Hi Graziano Tartari,

we can not use partner credentials (Delegated Administrator ) to customize customer business central instance.

You can use one of the existing user as shared access. Other wise buy a new license.

I have been traying to use partner credentials to develop customer extension, but that is not supported.

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Steven Renders 5,672 Moderator on at

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No, team member will not work, it needs to be a full license, for example essential.

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