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Posted on by David Lewis

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Hello everyone,

I'm looking for some insight on which environment type is best for my Dynamics CRM Development and UAT environment to be built in. While I have read there are not many differences in Development vs Sandbox Environment types. which is preferred for CRM to be built in?

I am assuming production will be built in an production environment, but again which is the best type of environment for our Dev and Testing CRM online apps to be built in? Sandbox or Development??

TYIA and have a great day.

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Hey.

The main question will be: will there be other users testing? Development environments are for creating solutions, but in order to provision one, the user (developer) must have a developer license, and is intended for their use only (no other users should access, as behavior might change). However, Sandbox environments is most widely used for acceptance testing (UAT/TEST/PrePROD). If your "Dev" environment will include integration or other developers interaction, then it should also be a Sandbox.

You can read more on https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/environments-overview#types-of-environments

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Hi David Lewis,

All of your non-production environments should be setup as sandbox environments and your production environment should be setup as a production environment.

Type	Description	Security
Production	This is intended to be used for permanent work in an organization. It can be created and owned by an administrator or anyone with a Power Apps license, provided there is 1 GB available database capacity. These environments are also created for each existing Dataverse database when it is upgraded to version 9.0 or later. Production environments are what you should use for any environments on which you depend.	Full control.
Sandbox	These are non-production environments, which offer features like copy and reset. Sandbox environments are used for development and testing, separate from production. Provisioning sandbox environments can be restricted to admins (because production environment creation can be blocked), but converting from a production to a sandbox environment can't be blocked.	Full control. If used for testing, only user access is needed. Developers require environment maker access to create resources.

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