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In Business Central Online (Cloud), there's a "Copy Environment" feature that allows creating multiple environments with the same data and even designating the copy as a Production environment.

Is this same feature available in Business Central On-Premises?

It would be helpful if you have any solution or workaround to achieve similar functionality on On-Prem.

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YUN ZHU 85,982 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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BC On-Pre is the same as NAV, you can directly copy the database and create a new instance. This is the same as the copy environment in SaaS.

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Gerardo Rentería Ga... 20,949 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi, good day
I hope this can help you, and give you some hints.

3 Easy Methods to move company data between NAV databases - Business Central Musings

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Gerardo
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Sohail Ahmed 4,829 on at

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@CU13051416-1 I Believe Question is about copying a complete envirnoment not company. and as far as i know i also agree with @Mohamed Amine Mahmoudi Copying a Entire Envirnoment (Production Or Sandbox) is not available. @Ramesh Kumar has shared some useful links.

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Mohamed Amine Mahmoudi 24,507 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Hi @SP-29040942-0,

No, the "Copy Environment" feature available in Business Central Online (Cloud) is not available in Business Central On-Premises.
Copying a "Production" environment into another "Production" is technically possible, but requires more manual effort and caution.

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Mohamed Amine MAHMOUDI
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Ramesh Kumar 5,496 on at

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That's good question. I don't have access to on-Prem environment but I hope can help you

https://www.dynamicsuser.net/t/business-central-v-14-on-premise-setup-a-staging-enviorment/76429?utm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRLN_3Y25cU&ab_channel=sauravdhyani

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Ramesh

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CU13051416-1 64 on at

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Hello,

I’m using BC26 on-premise and can confirm that this feature is available.

Hope this helps! Please mark it as answered if it does.

Best regards,