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BC Admin center - how to prevent accidentally deleting production environment

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Posted on by Anita75 1,165

Hi All,

In the admin center I could delete old sandboxes and recreate new ones. Now what's best way to accidentally deleting a production environment?  Does MS take overnight backups of all environments so we can log a support request to restore overnight backup? Another question is - if users are logged in does it allow you to delete an environment?  

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    GarethRGL 79 on at

    The backups I can't answer unfortunately, however I do know if you try to delete the production environment, it asks you to type the word Production into a box, then reconfirm you want to delete.

    It's not just as simple as hitting delete on a sandbox environment.

    Gareth

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    Chris Bulson Microsoft Employee on at

    Hello,

    Backups are kept per Azure SQL regular backup policy.  You would normally need to open a ticket to get a Point-In-Time restore done if you needed it, but they just pushed this feature to the Admin center.  Once you're upgraded you should have access to it (17.3).

    docs.microsoft.com/.../tenant-admin-center-environments

    Thanks,

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    Anita75 1,165 on at

    Thanks guys this very helpful...as I read below:

    "It's not possible to use the Business Central administration center to restore an environment that was previously deleted"

    Even with 17.3 you need to contact support for restoring deleted environment

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    Chris Bulson Microsoft Employee on at

    Thanks for pointing out that limitation, I had missed that!

    Thanks,

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