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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online sandboxes getting orange watermark, new admin tools

by Linda Rosencrance
Contributing Writer, MSDW

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online non-production watermark

If you've looked at the navigation bar at the top of a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online instance recently, in some cases you may have noticed it looks a little different. In particular, there is an orange navigation bar with a SANDBOX watermark for both free and paid test instances. Production instances will continue to display the blue bar, according to Mike Carter and the Dynamics CRM Online Services product team.

In addition to color coding, the sandbox refresh brings with it a collection of new administrative tools for managing a CRM Online development stack.

Here's what the team says the change means to you as well as how it relates to some new capabilities Microsoft will be releasing in the near future:

To this point, the noticeable differences between a production and non-production system would have been subtle: the instance type displayed on instance's edit settings page in the CRM Online admin center. The type displayed was either Production instance, Paid Test instance, or Free Test instance, depending on how it was obtained. The type is set when an instance is provisioned and can't be changed by a customer admin.

Microsoft has renamed the Free Test instance and Paid Test instance types Sandbox instances. Other than that there really aren't any functional or support differences between production and sandbox instances. You can perform all of the customization, development, and testing work in a sandbox instance without worrying that the ...

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About Linda Rosencrance

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 25 years experience as an reporter/investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in the metropolitan Boston area. Rosencrance has been writing about information technology for the past 16 years.

She has covered a variety of IT subjects, including Microsoft Dynamics, mobile security issues such as data loss prevention, network management, secure mobile app development, privacy, cloud computing, BI, big data, analytics, HR, CRM, ERP, and enterprise IT.

Rosencrance is the author of six true crime books for Kensington Publishing Corp.

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