What is a sandbox?

In Dynamics 365 Business Central, a sandbox is an environment totally isolated from a production instance, where you can develop, test, run demos, and play with the service, without affecting the real production data.

You can create a sandbox environment by connecting to your Business Central instance, clicking on the search button in the top bar, and searching for the word sandbox (or, if you prefer, by accessing the Administrator | IT Administration | General menu in Dynamics 365 Business Central):

Searching for sandbox in Dynamics 265 Business Central

You will be presented with two main choices:

• Creating an online sandbox
• Creating a container-based sandbox

 

These are the differences between the two choices:

Online Sandbox	Container-Based Sandbox
Dynamics 365 Cloud Service	Run in Azure VM or locally
Managed by Microsoft	Managed by...