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seems like the TAP has a prerequisite "testing in productive environments".
We are very interested in participating the program, but using pre-release builds in productive environments is a show stopper for us.
Is it possible to apply for the program only testing in our dev/staging-environments?
- Nino_Bilic
Microsoft
Note that the requirement for TAP is not "convert / upgrade all of your production environment to pre-released version" but we expect our TAP participants to run in production, yes. There might be several "rings" of release so for example we might provide a very early version and suggest "lab only" and then provide a later build and say, "production ready".
But the point is to get "real world" exposure to new code / builds and this is simply not possible in lab / dev environments.
If your organization does run a sizable staging / dev environment with real-life (production) workload, then it might make sense. You can apply and we can evaluate the application. But usually staging / dev environments do not provide things like substantial volume of email, number of clients connecting etc. to really see how new changes impact production environments, but yours might be different...
