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When you delete an environment, it is first soft deleted for a fourteen day period in which you can restore it, after which it is permanently deleted. If more than fourteen days old, you will need to open a service request with Microsoft.
To restore a soft deleted environment, access the Business Central Admin Center and click the Restore deleted environments button to see the environments which are available for restoration.
I have an IESandbox environment which can be restored; you’ll notice below, that it has a year and time appended to the name. This happens automatically when an environment is deleted, to make sure that every deleted environment has a unique name.