Customers who purchase a Dynamics 365 for Operations or Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise Edition subscription can deploy a Tier 1 Dev/Test or Build environment in the LCS Implementation project which is provisioned for their tenant. Though the customer has admin access to the Tier 1 environments, these environments are deployed in Microsoft’s subscription because Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations is a service that is managed by Microsoft. The following guidelines ensure that the environments remain secure.
- On all Tier 1 environments, Automatic Windows Update should be enabled by default and should always remain enabled. This ensures that anytime Microsoft pushes security or critical infrastructure updates to your environment, your environment receives the latest set of patches.
- All Tier 1 environments must be patched each month with the OS patches that Microsoft releases.
- Changing the admin passwords on these environments is NOT allowed. Environments that have admin passwords changed will be flagged by Microsoft. Microsoft reserves the right to reset the password.
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