Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Apps - Second Edition

Database operations

There are occasions when, instead of working on a particular data or configuration, you may need to work on the entire database. Such scenarios could come up while creating a new environment and seeding it with the data from the golden environment, or while requesting Microsoft to use the database of the golden environment and populate production for the first time.

In any cloud sandbox environment (Tier-2 and above), customers and partners can use LCS self-service tools to initiate database operations. Database operations are available on the LCS environment detail page, under Maintain | Move database, as shown in the following screenshot:

Let's briefly look at the various database operations options:

• Refresh database ...