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Posted on by @RSP 60

Hi Experts,

How can we find via link ie., the link is Business central Cloud or Business central On premises

For Eg:

https://sandboxexample.dynamicstocloud.com:8080/ 

https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/tenantid/sandbox

Is there any other way to find the difference.

Thanks

RSP

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  • Lars Lohndorf-Larsen Profile Picture
    Lars Lohndorf-Larsen Microsoft Employee on at

    Hello,

    If the URL is Businesscentral.dynamics.com, then it is cloud. If it is something else, then I don't know how you can tell, as there could be a DNS record that redirects it to either OnPrem or Cloud. But try this:

    tracert sandboxexample.dynamicstocloud.com

    ping sandboxexample.dynamicstocloud.com

    And see if that shows you the DNS path and it may end up on someting.cludapp.azure.com, but then I am not sure if it would tell you if this is a cloud solution, or an OnPrem solution running of some Azure VMs.

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    ew9800 Profile Picture
    ew9800 182 on at

    To me the give away is when BC URL  starts with businesscentral.dynamics.com/... this tells you it's on Microsoft's cloud. Your admin team would routinely get email notifications for new release updates and schedules. Hope this helps.

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    tanya07 1,638 on at

    sandboxexample.dynamicstocloud.com:8080/  - this has hostname along with default ports (on-prem)

    businesscentral.dynamics.com/.../sandbox - this has the default hostname for Dynamics 365 , i.e. businesscentral.dynamics.com

    (on-cloud)

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