D365 Upgrade Process Timer - Does an Upgrade Dry-Run start the actual upgrade process

Finance and Operations/AX Technical Forum
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Hello and thanks for responding.

Does an D365 Upgrade Dry-Run using LCS start the actual upgrade process with licensing and pricing changes?

Thanks

Jeff

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Hi Jeff,
what exactly do you mean by “Upgrade Dry-Run using LCS”?
Is it about D365 Finance and Operations or another D365 application?

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Thank you for responding.

I want to do an actual upgrade process from AX 2012 R3 CU13 through LCS to a TEST environment, but I am unclear whether or not Microsoft considers this an Upgrade therefore changing licensing and subscription charges.

Thanks

Jeff

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An upgrade to D365FO, right?
Upgrade is done in a development environment, not in a test environment.
You don’t need a production license until you deploy a production environment. I’m not sure, though, what you mean by changing licensing.

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Hi Martin,
Thank you for your response.
Yes, upgrade to D365FO.
My question concerning changing licensing was to determine: 1) if new licensing is required for an upgrade to a D365 FO development environment. 2) is current AX 2012 R3 licensing sufficient to satisfy D365 FO development environment upgrade.

Again, Thank you for your response.

Jeff

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AX 2012 license won’t help you - you need a D365FO subscription.
I’m sorry, but I don’t remember the process in detail. Hopefully somebody else went through it recently.