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Local-hosted sandbox

A local-hosted Dynamics 365 Business Central sandbox requires that you have a machine running Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016, with Docker installed and running.

Docker for Windows can be installed from the following link: https://www.docker.com/docker-windows.

Run the installer with administrator privileges. After installation, check that Docker is running Windows Container (right click on the Docker icon in the task bar):

On your Windows Settings, check that you've enabled the PowerShell execution script option:

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