Deploy D365 F&O environment on azure

Prerequisite:

·         Verify that you have an Azure subscription, and that you are a co-administrator on it.

·         Verify that you have access to an LCS (Life Cycle Servics) project and permissions to deploy an environment.

·         Verify that you’ve connected your Azure subscription to your LCS project by using the information in the AzureResource Manager onboarding topic.

Steps to deploy D365 environment:

1.       Select a project on LCS and press + (Plus) icon in Environment tab, Select application and relevant platform version from the provided drop down list as shown below:

2.    Select environment topology:

·         For Finance and Operations, select the most recent Azure Resource Manager (ARM) topology, in my F&O Development case it is “DevTest”.

     3. To create Development environment let’s select the highlighted one. For Test and build environment, select the first one topology from available options shown in below screenshot:

     4.   As mentioned in the prerequisite above, it is assumed Azure subscription is attached with the selected LCS project,  system will ask to select Azure connector now:

    5.   Give unique environment name in Azure subscription, this will help to identify environment. Click on "Advance settings" button to check environment configuration details on “Deployment settings” window:

     6.     Environment resource configuration and versions can be checked and modified in “Deployment settings” window:

Select the size of the virtual machine (VM). All the sizes for VMs that are enabled for ARM end with v2. You must use D* v2 sizes for Finance and Operations workloads. MS recommends D12v2.

     7. Once click on “Next” button in “Deploy environment” window, confirm message box is popped up  with “Deploy” and “Cancel” options.

Click “Deploy” button and relax… your environment will be deployed on cloud.

 Final price list can also be calculated in azure price list link.

     8.  Once the deployment is completed, Environment will be visible in “Environments” section of LCS.

    9.  To get access and other details of the environment, select the “Demo” environment all information can be found “Manage environment” page.

In case if you face any issue, please feel free to reach me at my personal email - daxmanish@outlook.com

Enjoy J