Overview
You can use an Office 365 trial subscription and create an Office 365 dev/test environment for applications or to demonstrate features and capabilities of Office 365. There are two versions:
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The lightweight Office 365 dev/test environment consists of an Office 365 trial subscription that you access from your main computer.
Use this environment when you want to quickly demonstrate a feature. For the lightweight Office 365 dev/test environment, complete phases 2 and 3 of this article.
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The simulated enterprise Office 365 dev/test environment consists of an Office 365 trial subscription and a simplified organization intranet connected to the Internet, which is hosted in Microsoft Azure infrastructure services. You can build this configuration completely in the Microsoft cloud.
Use this environment when you want to demonstrate a feature or an app in an environment that resembles a typical organization network connected to the Internet, or for features that require this type of environment.