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Free Development Environment for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

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I'm new to D365 for Finance and Operations.

I'd like to practice development for the product freely.

Anyone who knows how to use free development environment please let me know.

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    André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
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    RE: Free Development Environment for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

    Important note to add is that the VM is pre-configured with trial licenses for OS and SQL. You can re-arm a few times. Note that you cannot use Visual Studio on this development machine if you don't have an appropriate Visual Studio license.

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    RE: Free Development Environment for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

    You need to be a part of an organization that is either a D365FO customer or partner. Then you have access to dev VMs in Lifecycle Services. If you are not a customer or a partner you can't get a dev VM.

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    RE: Free Development Environment for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

    You should have at least windows 10 and RAM of 16 GB to install VM(Hyper V).

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    RE: Free Development Environment for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

    Alternatively sign up on lcs and download the vhd from asset library

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    Mea_ Profile Picture
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    RE: Free Development Environment for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

    Hi Lifeisbelieveful,

    If you work for a partner you can download a VM from LCS that is free.

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