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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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Have you found Power-Over-Ethernet to be an effective solution for the enterprise?

I've noticed that quite a many VOIP phones support PoE. While the idea seems great in principle (no worrying about power adapters anywhere), have you found it to be effective for enterprise-wide deployment? My main concern is that all switches need…
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SCCM 2012: How to properly update the content of an application?

I recently set up a new SCCM 2012 environment at my workplace and now we are creating our applications for distribution. Some applications are set up using a script. When during testing, something was not right and the content of the application…
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How to set only specific nginx server block into maintenance mode programmatically

I am looking for a solution to automate one of our application's deployment process. In the beginning of deployment, I would like to programmatically set the specified server into maintenance mode and finally after the deployment has been completed,…
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I deployed Flash Player via a Software Installation policy. How to upgrade?

I have a Windows Server 2008 machine as my DC. Earlier this year I created a Software Installation GPO to deploy Adobe Flash Player plugin MSI. I assigned the policy to the computers, about half run Windows XP x86 and the other half Windows 7 x64.…
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How to set up Cobbler with Puppet or Cfengine?

I've heard a lot about using Cobbler together with Puppet/Cfengine for rapid deployment & configuration. Can you point me to some tutorials or share you experience of how you do it? Would also love to hear about any other systems you use for rapid…
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Deploy our own software using Puppet?

(Apologies in advance for the stupidity in this question. I'm normally a programmer, not a sysadmin, but I've taken it upon myself to automate some things, and clean up some other things which are automated but not in the prettiest way. :-) I've…
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Benefits of all-in-one

A large organization(1500+ users, with 5 locations) is planning to refresh desktop hardware. Is there any benefits going with an all-in-one desktop where the screen, CPU, disk drive, CD/DVD are in one unit, with USB keyboard and Mouse? If on-site…
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IIS7 - Web Deployment Tool - SetParam/SetParamFile to set http and https bindings + Cert

we're currently using the MS Web Deployment Tool to sync a live website and some WebServices from a staging box to two live servers. The staging box hosts the site on any IP on port 17000, whereas the two live servers are load-balanced and have a…
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What does regsvr32 do?

To register a DLL file on a windows server using regsvr32, do you first need to move the file to your system32 folder or is that actually done automatically once you call the regsvr32 command? If I just drop a dll file on my desktop and register it…
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Web application deployment : one version for all clients or each his own

I have a general question about software deployment. At work, we design a CRM that is used through web browsers. I've recently been told that each specific client has its own server (although the servers are owned by my company, they're not theirs…
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Build Docker image with cache on build server?

We've got a Jenkins CI server that fetches our code from Git, builds it, makes a Docker image, and then ships it off to some production servers. Our project is primarily written in Python, so "building" involves running pip install -r…
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executing RSYNC command in jenkins

I'm trying to deploy my code to a remote server. So far I've tried Publish over SSH Plugin: the problem is that I'm unable to keep file permissions Rsync command: this keeps the file permissions, but the problem is that I don't know how to set the…
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Best method to clone a Windows server?

I have a Windows Server 2012 production server I am running with RDS set up. I want to copy everything I have done to set up this RDS server (user profiles, files, settings, etc) and make a second server identical to it. Obviously, I would want the…
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How do you automate enabling a service on a debian filesystem without booting into it?

I want to have a custom service that I've placed into /lib/systemd/system start at boot, but th eonly way I know how at the moment is to run systemctl enable myservice.service but I would like to be able to do this without booting into the actual…
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Multi-server Deployment strategies - Git on production servers?

Main question: Is deployment using Git on production servers a good strategy? Many, many deployment strategies I see revolve around having Git on your servers (dev, staging and production). The merits of this seem obvious for deployment to…
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