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Deployment is the process or collection activities that make a system available for use.

Deployment is the process or collection activities that make a system available for use.

It can refer to hardware, software, or both and has varying levels of automation, from the completely automated "no-touch" deployments to completely manual ones. Wikipedia has a page dedicated to software deployments here.

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How to deploy Node.js in cloud for high availability using multi-core, reverse-proxy, and SSL

I have posted this to ServerFault, but the Node.js community seems tiny there, so I'm hoping this bring more exposure. I have a Node.js (0.4.9) application and am researching how to best deploy and maintain it. I want to run it in the cloud (EC2 or…
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Deploy hosts file among machines connected to a domain

I want to copy a new hosts file (and delete the old one) among Windows 7 users connected to one domain. Many of my users work remotely. Could anyone advise me the best way to deploy that file with minmal fuss (ideally, I do not want the users to do…
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Deploy a single XML file through a Windows Server 2003 AD network

I am a newbie with AD and I was wondering if there was an easy way to deploy a single XML file (license file) to all computers in a Windows Server 2003 AD environment? Do I have to create an MSI file and Assign or Publish it? In the past I have used…
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Joining domain in depolying image with Unattend file

I am deploying windows 7 images to our classroom PC's via WDS. Am trying to get the machine to auto join the domain through the unattend file but am running into an issue. The unattendfile is created with WSIM. The domain section to my understanding…
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How do you deploy your ESX servers?

There are a number of ways to deploy/install ESX; RDP/PXE, from CD, remote ISO boot etc. What's your favourite method and why?
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Remote SCCM deployment of Operating Systems

I am currently using sccm 2007 for our software deployment and PXE. During this summer I have been tasked with upgrading 2000+ machines from Windows XP to Windows 7. My plan is to use sccm to advertise the Windows 7 task sequence to the machines.…
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update manager to update remote software (windows)

We deploy windows machines with a 3rd party application that we modify slightly (config files and images) just after we install it on the soon to be deployed systems. This application does not have any auto update feature, but does have updates come…
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MSI package for reg deployment

What is the best way to create MSI package to deploy a registry key over a network, rather than using GPO.
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Reasons Why In Place Upgrades Are Bad

I am working on compiling a list of reasons why in place upgrades of software and operating systems are a bad idea. There are many people that I work with that think that it is easier and better to just install the new version of a piece of…
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Tools for managing code deployment/versioning for IIS / Windows enviroments

Ive got a strong background in Linux and OSX, and just left a job where I was architecting systems based on those platforms. Now I've got a Windows Server running IIS that has a number of different websites that it hosts. Most of them are just a…
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Load balanced IIS Servers with ASP.NET InProc Session

Has anyone configured IIS 6.0 loadbalancing on win 2003 servers with ASP.NET app using InProc Sessions. How can this be achieved?
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Office 2010 Deployment

We are looking into various Office 2010 deployment methods currently. I was wondering what people suggest? Currently I am doing it via start up script (ugh) as MS doesn't allow it to install via MSI and GPO. SCCM is an option, but should I be…
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How to execute a command on the server with Capistrano?

I have a very simple task called update_feeds: desc "Update feeds" task :update_feeds do run "cd #{release_path}" run "script/console production" run "FeedEntry.update_all" end Whenever I try to run this task, I get the following…
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What platform do you run your java apps on?

Even though the JVM is cross-platform, there are be differences in behaviour; performance; stability. Some of them are quite clear, as in the heap size limitation on 32bit. Some of them are not, such as the increased tuning hooks on Solaris. I'd…
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Install a program from the network

In Windows there is a place under the Control Panel called Get Programs and Install a program from the network (in Win 7 at least), possibly a slightly different name in Vista, but it was there too. The question is basically: How do you publish…
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