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Copy SharePoint 2013 Prod environment to Dev.
Same applies, I wouldn't recommend copying PROD to TEST. I would recommend installing any custom solutions on Test, testing them and then deploying to PROD. That gives you a route to PROD for custom code and satisfies a basic Software Life Cycle management.
By all means have some test content on Test but copying the whole DB is rarely actually required and isn't a good idea as I mentioned for data security etc.
Thank you very much for the guidance, that make sense.
So if i prepare test farm like Prod, so could you please guide , when need to copy from Prod servers.
Same applies, I wouldn't recommend copying PROD to TEST. I would recommend installing any custom solutions on Test, testing them and then deploying to PROD. That gives you a route to PROD for custom code and satisfies a basic Software Life Cycle management.
By all means have some test content on Test but copying the whole DB is rarely actually required and isn't a good idea as I mentioned for data security etc.
- OK, you mean to prepare the Dev or Test environment from scratch and configure the required services manually and use accordingly..
I think yes, It's best option to keep in mind the data security part.
Thank you very much, I hope this will help others also to follow this as a best practice.