In this chapter, we looked at how to create a new free trial environment for Dynamics 365 for Sales.
We also learned how to add an Office 365 Enterprise E3 trial to our current Dynamics 365 trial in order to leverage the services that are available with the Office 365 service. This allows us to configure additional integration points; we'll be looking at these in future chapters.
We looked at the various geographical locations in which this service is hosted in Microsoft data centers and how it is served to various geographies. We learned that, while you should have your instance created in the closest geographical location for better performance, there are situations where you might want to deploy to a different location, or even to multiple locations for global organizations. That is a much more complex scenario and could involve different deployments and real-time synchronization of data.
The next chapter delves into the platform structure. We will look at the standard modules available with the platform, the elements that are available for customization, and their relationship to each module and each other.