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Showing posts with label Life Cycle service. Show all posts

Upgrade Environment using LCS D365



Upgrade Environment using LCS D365.


You can upgrade your 2-Tier environment to the latest build using LCS.




Step-1 Navigate to your required Environment and click on maintain.
Step-2 Now click on upgrade a popup window will appear.




Step-3 Popup window contains 3 fields to be filled.


  1. Target Environment 
  2. Preferred downtime start date
  3. Preferred downtime start time

Select the Build release on which you want to upgrade your environment and provide downtime as per your feasibility then click next. 





Following is the filled screenshot for your reference.




Step-4 Select the application version from the new window and click next.





Step-5 Now select the database type from the next window.

Three types are available 
  1. None 
  2. Demo 
  3. Public sector data



Step-6 select a custom package if you want to deploy with this upgrade.






Step-7 Enter the email address of the persons who will be notified of every action on the environment.




Step-8  select environment administrator. Only users will appear in the drop-down those who have administrator rights on Project and LCS.




Step-9 verify the summary





Step-10 Now enter your Account name in the text box and click save.




Service will submit to Microsoft and they will start working on the given time window.


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Production Database backup Request


Production Database backup Request Life cycle service



Using following steps you can request the database backup of production to your UAT Sandbox environment.


Step-1 Click on hamburger Icon and click on support menu item.




Step-2 Now click on Service request tab from left panel.

Step-3 Now click on Add icon a popup window will appear with 3 Different Request.

Step-4  Three type of service request available. Please click on Database Refresh Request.

Following are some information about service request.

Data Point in time restore request 
      This request we use to request Microsoft to restore the production DB on any particular date.

Other Request 
      In this service request we can ask for different options, Like ICM ticket or can request them to update the statistics of production database.

Database Refresh Request
     This service request we use to restore database from production to UAT.  


Step-5 On 1st Drop down select the source environment name. On 2nd drop down select target server name. provide the time window. and acknowledge the both agreement and click next.


Step-6 Mark check box to acknowledge the terms and conditions and click submit. 



You request submitted to Microsoft.


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