Sandbox environment for SharePoint Online for development

Question

Hi Experts,

In our organisation we're having E3 subscription and is there anyway where we can get Sandbox environment for the development except Office E5 Developer subscription.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks,
Murali.

Answer 1

Hi @Muralidharan Deenathayalan

As Trevorseward says, there is no free option.

Once you have a developer subscription or purchase another tenant, you can join and set up Microsoft 365 Developer Program by referring to the page below:

Set up a Microsoft 365 developer subscription

Join the Microsoft 365 Developer Program

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Answer 2

The general approach is to develop on a site collection within the production tenant. If you don't want to do that and don't want to use a developer subscription, then your other option is to purchase another tenant. There is no 'free' option.