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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 can I test my Microsoft Deployment Server custom settings?

I am deploying Windows 7 using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit on a Windows Server 2012. Is it possible to test my settings, particularly in regards to the CustomSettings.ini file without committing to a full deployment? It is very time consuming…
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cloud-init script with args (parametrized)

Long Story I'm preparing cloud-init scripts for instaling monitoring software agent (disclaimer: I'm one of the founders of MonitOwl). The agent software collect information (like memory or network stats) and send it to server. Each company group…
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Alternatives to DriverPacks for Windows system deployment images?

I managed to prepare a Windows 7 Professional image with sysprep for deployment to a wide variety of hardware, and so far it works fairly well. It currently installs drivers upon first boot after deployment with driver packs released by…
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MDT Domain Deployment Security

I have the following under RULES for under the properties window for deployment: JoinDomain=MYDOMAIN DomainAdmin=MYID DomainAdminDomain=MYDOMAIN DomainAdminPassword=MYPW Is it safe to add the main Admin account there or do I need to create one that…
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Is it ok to just copy necessary dll files to a server instead of installing dependencies?

I deployed ASP NET MVC 3 application on server (win2008/iis7.5). Somehow i desided not to install MVC 3 package and devexpress( necessary for app). Instead I have just copied dlls of mvc and devexpress from my developer machine to the bin folder of…
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Deployment and configuration of complex python application scheme

Challenge Our fresh application uses several services: custom build postgresql, redis, celery, rabbitmq, haproxy, nginx, uwsgi, about 4 our internal processes (mostly python), AngularJS webaplication, I will ship it in SaS model, this mean that…
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What is the best process to automate Zimbra deploy using cobbler+puppet?

I set up a fully working cobbler server on a RHEL5 machine. This is able to deploy a new server on bare metal machine, partitioning the disks, using LVM and creating as much virtual machines as I need. The virtual machines takes their install…
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Is there a way to determine which client machines have installed software from a GPO?

If I assign software with a GPO, I assume that client machines will install this next time they reboot. However, I can't be certain without actually going to each of the clients and checking myself. Is there a way to check to see which clients have…
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How to configure WebDeploy server for direct publishing from visual studio?

Visual Studio 2013 supports direct WebDeploy publishing (no intermediate package files to manually move). I have this working against an Azure "Website" because the server already supports WebDeploy and Azure's Portal/Dashboard lists the WebDeploy…
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How do you write a Linux deployment documentation / plans?

I have few, relatively small, servers running Linux distros. Sometimes I need to re-install 1 or 2 of the "development" servers from scratch. Often I just forget to setup little things, eg. forwarding in sysctl.conf or forget to install update…
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Edit Software Distribution Path in Existing GPO

There is an existing GPO to deploy a software package, the path is no longer valid. I need to either edit the UNC path or create a new Package. I would prefer to edit existing package/modification, or create a new modification in the existing…
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Deploy Registry Change

What is the best way to deploy a HKCU registry change for anyone who logs onto the machine. Someone mentioned to me Active Setup...but I am not sure.
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Run/Execute permissions of script in Tomcat WAR file

I have a script inside the WEB-INF folder that the Java runs. When I deploy the WAR, there are no execute permissions (644 instead of 755). How do I set the permissions of files inside the WAR?
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How can we restart a Tomcat 7 instance without redeploying war files?

Scenario: Bad logging configuration internal to war file. No Manager app in the instance. Is there a JVM property or something we can set that will cause Tomcat to NOT redeploy on restart? That way we can just edit the properties file under…
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Idea for taking down half of the servers vs rolling restart?

We're setting up HAProxy to balance our application (ASP.NET MVC 3 running on IIS). We want our process to be without scheduled maintenance for deployment. I'm trying to figure out the correct way to do a "see-saw" approach to only serve one version…
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