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Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

You're reading from  Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789347463
Pages 224 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
Stefano Demiliani Stefano Demiliani
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Duilio Tacconi Duilio Tacconi
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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:

A local-hosted sandbox can be created by selecting the Sandbox Environment (Container) option as shown and then selecting Host locally:

At this point, you will be asked to download and save a Powershell script file called CreateBCSandbox.ps1.

After saving it, start Powershell ISE with administrator privileges and open that file.

In this Powershell script, you've simply to set these parameters:

  • Set the $containername variable to the name of your Dynamics 365 Business...
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