Thursday, February 22, 2024

Configure a T2 Environment

In this blog of Dynamics Community 101 we will learn How to configure a T2 Environment in D365 FO LCS

To Configure a T2 Environment, follow the below steps


1. Login to LCS with an "environment manager" or a "project owner" role.(This is one of the prerequisites on How to configure a T2 Environment in D365 FO LCS)

LCS home page

2. You will see all the Tier-2 environments on the right side. The one which is not configured you will see as shown below.

All environments page

3. Click on configure, you will see a dialog box like below.

platform version dialog form

4. Select the application version and platform version, and click next.

environment topology form d365

5. Now you will see the environment topology, select it. It will take you to the next dialog page as shown below.

T2 confi general form

6. Give a suitable name to the environment in 1st field and in the 2nd field select your region.
Click Next. You will see the next screen like this.

Changin selected topology D365

7. Click next, and you will see the below screen. (You are done half way on How to configure a T2 Environment in D365 FO LCS).

selecting database

8. now select the DataSet for the application database, in my case I will select none as shown below.

selecting db to none

9. Now click next, and you will see a BPM library screen as shown below, click next.

BPM library

10. The next screen shows Power Platform Integration(If you want to enable click on it else click next).

Configure in power platform or not

11. Click next, and you will see the "Environment Notifications" screen where you can enter the email ID of users who need to receive notifications regarding the environment, click next.

additional users

12. Now you will see the Environment administrator screen where you can set the administrator of the environment. as shown below.

selecting environment manager

13. After selecting click next. Then you will see a screen like below.

Power platform SQL dataset

14. Now click next, and you will see a screen like below for "Customer sign off", type in your admin name and click Deploy.

Environment name

15. Now your environment will deploy and you will see the state as Deploying as shown below.

Deploying

This will take an average time of 2 hours depending on the type of environment and various other factors. You can monitor the deployment progress from the Environment section. Once it is deployed you will see the state as Deployed, as shown in the picture below.

Deployed

Tada!!!

I hope now you are clear on How to configure a T2 Environment in D365 FO LCS.