What is Lifecycle Services (LCS)?
Lifecycle Services (LCS) is Microsoft's online portal for managing Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations projects, environments and updates. Microsoft has been moving environment management toward the Power Platform admin center, so check its current guidance on which tool to use.
Why it matters for your business
Implementation teams have traditionally used LCS to deploy sandbox and production environments, apply updates and work with Microsoft support. Knowing where your environments are managed matters when you plan testing, go-live and ongoing updates.
Before go-live, a project team copies data into a sandbox for user acceptance testing and schedules the production deployment with Microsoft.