Deploy a UAT Finance and Operations environment on PPAC

April 21, 2026 Komi Siabi

Up until February 2026, LCS has been a the go-to to deploy and manage finance and Operations environment.

If you are starting a fresh implementation any day greater than today 21st April, you must go via aka.ms/ppac. Going through LCS will redirect you to the power platform admin center.

Before we deploy, there’s a slight change the naming convention with the unified environments:

In LCS, we had :

PROD -> UPE
UAT -> USE
DEV -> UDE

Unified environment type	Abbreviation	Power Platform environment type	Elastic compute	Typical use
Unified production environment	UPE	Production	Full scaling	Live production workloads
Unified sandbox environment	USE	Sandbox	Full scaling	Testing, UAT, staging, training
Unified developer environment	UDE	Sandbox	Single AOS (no scaling)	X++ development

Now, let’s create a UAT environment or a Unified sandbox environment aka USE.

Go to Power Platform admin center aka.ms/ppac

In the navigation pane, select Manage.
In the Manage pane, select Environments
In the Environments page, select a New
In the type, select sandbox
Pick a region
Under the Change default, select Make this a Management Environment
Click Next

On the next page, we will enable dataverse

Because, we selected Make this a Management Environment, a hidden setup is automatically checked:

Add a Dataverse data store?

Important: You need to edit the URL to select an environment name to make up the URL for both CRM and ERP environment.

Check the box Enable Dynamics 365 apps
In the Automatically deploy these apps options, select none. We will specifically deploy Dynamics Finance (F&O) later on.
Click Save

It takes about 20-30 mins to deploy the black Dynamics standard environment.

Now, the next steps involve deploying an actual Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations environment. We will be installed Two different applications one after the other.

Once ready, select, the new environment.