My team is looking to set up a dev/trial environment for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations.
Specifically, we would like to test its features to prepare for an upgrade from our current Dynamics AX 2012 environment.
However, management requires knowing the cost of deploying the Finance and Operations environment on LCS before deployment.
Is there a way to accurately calculate these costs?
I was unable to find cost information available on the LCS platform besides a link redirecting me to the Azure pricing calculator,
but without knowing all the components/resources the environment would use,
there was no way to determine accuracy of the costs we calculate based on assumptions.
Another way to bypass this problem is by acquiring a trial environment for free.
We had tried trials.dynamics.com, but Iacked the permission to sign up,
and unfortunately trying to locate the appropriate IT administrator who can give us the right permissions
will be even more time consuming in our (massive) organization.
I have attempted multiple points of contact with Microsoft sales on the Dynamics website, our internal Microsoft sales, and even a 3rd party reseller to try and set up this environment,
but these led to license quotations that were beyond our budget for a short term (2-3 months) trial environment, and one sales contact even redirected me back to LCS.
Hoping I can get some insight from the internet, and maybe this can also help other small teams tied up in big corporate red tape who have similar problems.
Thank you in advance.
