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NicolasHon
Nov 01, 2021Brass Contributor
Azure AD test tenant
Hello Community, I'm stating this discussion because I likely wanted your input regarding the best way to build a test tenant in Azure. We have a Prod tenant and for some feature testing or some wi...
- Dec 30, 2021What I did is set up a parallel AD domain using our as-built documentation and then registered a new domain name used exclusively for this project. Then I created an Azure tenant with a pay-as-you-go subscription linked to a credit card. Then I used Azure AD Connect to connect the test domain with the test tenant. The AD DS domain is on a completely separate VLAN and the test tenant is completely separate from our production tenant.
What this does is keep the production environment completely separate from the test environment. I can try new things on the test domain and have a pretty good idea about how it's going to affect the production environment. The best part about this is that I can experiment with new services to deeply understand them before presenting them as potential projects. The idea is to be very thorough and build a deep understanding of a service before anyone else in the company (or our team) puts time into it.
MLoncar
Microsoft
May 08, 2023StephenFeltmate do you know if this is possible to make without using credit card, but having azure consumption going to corporate enterprise enrollment?
Bojan_Bulut
Jun 11, 2023Copper Contributor
MLoncar |
Yes, you can configure and run a sandbox test environment:
More on that here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/modern-desktop-deployment-and-management-lab?view=o365-worldwide
Here is the direct link : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-lab-kit
Dont forget the download the guides too (ZIp download for lab env and guides on the page I linked above)
Enjoy!