Transfer Environments
Transferring Business Central environments between Microsoft Entra tenants through the tenant admin center: how to start a transfer in the source tenant, cancel pending ones, accept in the destination tenant, and the requirements (permissions, license, quota, timing limits).
- Introduction to environment transfers
- Initiating transfer from source tenant
- Verifying pending outgoing transfers
- Accepting transfer in destination tenant
- Verifying accepted incoming transfers
- Requirements and audit capabilities
Overview
The video shows how customers and partners move a Business Central environment from one Entra tenant to another using the tenant admin center. Use cases are organizations merging or acquiring each other, and partners handing demo environments to prospective customers.
The demo follows the process from initiating the transfer in the source tenant, through checking pending outgoing transfers on the environment operations page, to accepting the transfer in the destination tenant and verifying the incoming transfer. It closes with requirements and audit capabilities.
Key points
- Environment transfers between Entra tenants are done in the tenant admin center.
- A transfer can be scheduled at most 2 weeks (14 days) into the future.
- The destination tenant must accept the transfer within 8 hours of the request.
- Only internal administrators can request and accept transfers.
- The destination tenant needs a paid Business Central license and available environment quota.
- The environment operations page in the source tenant shows destination tenant ID, status and expected execution time; pending outgoing transfers can be cancelled there with the cancel transfers button.
- Transfers are auditable in the source tenant, the destination tenant and in environment telemetry.
Features
| Feature | Status | At |
|---|---|---|
| Environment transfers between Entra tenants | status not stated, demoed | 0:04 |
| Transfer scheduling | status not stated, demoed | 1:10 |
| Pending transfer cancellation | status not stated, demoed | 1:48 |
| Environment operations page | status not stated, demoed | 2:02 |
| Transfer audit trail | status not stated | 4:38 |
AL objects mentioned
As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.
Not found in BC28-30: page “tenant admin center”, page “environment operations”.
Quotes
- 0:04 “Transferring environments between different Entra tenants can now be done through the tenant admin center.”
- 0:17 “When organizations are merging with one another or acquiring each other. Additionally, partners can use this feature if they prepare demo environments in their”
- 1:16 “The transfer can run at most 2 weeks into the future.”
- 4:08 “Environment transfers can only be requested and accepted by internal administrators. Once a transfer has been started from the source tenant, the request has”
- 4:22 “The destination tenant must have a paid Business Central license and should ensure to have available environment quota.”