Multiple tenants in Sharepoint Online- PRO and DEV

Question

We have one tenant for the company in Sharepoint Online, and we're working in integrating new services. We have got the following piece of advice: Why not use a DEV tenant to make your changes, and test and avoid problems.

As far as i know, it shoud be:

company.sharepoint.com

company-dev.sharepoint.com

Ok, it seems a good idea, but we aren't sure how to acomplish it. How can i get this scenario? It would great to have the same accounts in both tenants, but i'm not so sure that it could be possible.

What would be best practices for this scenario?

Answer 1

You will have to pay for the separate tenant, but you can try and create a developer tenancy which will be free for a year:

https://dev.office.com/devprogram

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/howto/setup-development-environment

You will need to use AAD Connect to integrate on-premises users. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/connect/active-directory-aadconnect