Complete the Lifecycle Services methodology
After you have prepared to go live, it is time to take finance and operations apps to the production environment.
Completing the Lifecycle Services methodology is a major milestone in each implementation project, and it is the cutover to the production environment.
To help ensure that the production environment is used for live operations, Microsoft will provision the production instance only when the implementation is approaching the Operate phase, after the required activities in the Lifecycle Services methodology are completed.
For more information about the environments in your subscription, refer to the Licensing guide.
Customers must complete the Analysis, Design and develop, and Test phases in the Lifecycle Services methodology before the Configure button that is used to request the production environment becomes available.
To complete a phase in Lifecycle Services, you first need to complete every required step in that phase. When all steps in a phase are completed, you can complete the whole phase. You can always reopen a phase later if you need to make changes.
If you require more help, refer to Lifecycle Services for finance and operations apps customers.
The process of completing a step has two parts:
- Performing the actual work, such as a fit-gap analysis or user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Selecting the corresponding step in the Lifecycle Services methodology as completed.
It's good practice to complete the steps in the methodology as you make progress with the implementation. Avoid waiting until the last minute. Be thorough, rather than simply selecting through all the steps to quickly get a production environment. It's in the customer's best interest to have a solid implementation.