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title: Promoting a Sandbox environment to Production
description: Use the Environment Properties page to promote a Sandbox environment to Production.
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revdate: April 3, 2025
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  before-you-begin: Before you begin
  steps: Steps
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# Promoting a Sandbox environment to Production

Use the **Environment Properties** page to promote a Sandbox environment to Production.

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|   | Promoting a Sandbox environment to Production is a permanent change and can't be reversed. You cannot demote a Production environment to Sandbox. |

## Before you begin

To promote an environment, you must have the Environment Admin role or a custom role with equivalent permissions.

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|   | If you have a trial license, you can't promote Sandbox environments to Production. |

Learn more about environment types in [Sandbox and Production environments](../introduction_to_pingone/p1_introduction.html#p1-env-types).

## Steps

1. In the PingOne admin console sidebar, click the Ping Identity logo to open the **Environments** page and browse or search for the applicable environment.

2. Click the environment to view the environment properties and verify that the environment is a Sandbox environment.

   ![A screenshot of the environment details view for the BX Books environment with the Type outlined to show it is a Sandbox environment](_images/p1-env-props-sandbox-env.png)

3. Click the **Pencil** icon.

4. At the bottom of the page, under **Type**, select the **Promote to Production** checkbox.

   ![Screenshot of an environment in edit mode showing the Promote to Production checkbox selected](_images/p1-env-promote-to-prod.png)

5. Click **Save**.

6. Click **Promote** on the **Promote to Production** modal to confirm the change.

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   |   | This action cannot be reversed. |

## Result

The environment is now a Production environment.