The Waterdeep Trading Company is the purveyor of all the finest adventuring supplies to travelers, rogues, wizards, and clerics in all Faerûn and is headquartered in the great city of Waterdeep on the Sword Coast.

Recently they have been experiencing a massive upswing in the traffic through their store and have realized that the old quill and scroll-based financial system will not scale anymore. The manual supply chain management processes that they are using will not handle their forecasted future demand.

As a result, they have taken the step to modernize their finance and supply chain systems and implement Microsoft Dynamics 365 to manage all their legal (and not-so-legal) entities. And the following is a journal of how they set up their system and tweaked it to make it work perfectly.

Before starting off our journey of setting up our new company within Dynamics 365, we need to set up a cloud-hosted environment of Dynamics 365 that we can work in.

We will do that by setting up a cloud-hosted environment within Azure, which will be funded by an Azure subscription that we have on our account.

In this module, we will learn how to sign up for a free Azure subscription, link the subscription to Lifecycle Services and then deploy a new blank Dynamics 365 environment that we can use for this training course.  We will cover the following topics:

• Configuring an Azure Subscription
• Creating a Cloud-hosted environment
• Deploying a New Environment