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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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Reimage several of the same model PC by copying the hard disk

I have several of the same machine (Dell Precision T3500) that originally came with Windows 7 Pro (there is a Windows 7 Pro OA product key sticker on top of each one). These were initially downgraded to XP by a former IT colleague, but are now back…
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How to secure TeamCity deployment via Web Deploy service?

My team uses TeamCity for continuous integration. It will build, test and deploy web applications via Web Deploy to dev and qa web servers. The tricky part is deploying to a production web server - our policy dictates that developers cannot deploy…
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Silent Install of MSI

What is the command line to silently install an MSI file?
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Is this idea about distributed database server with centralized storage feasible?

I often use SQLite for creating simple programs in companies. The database is placed on a file server. This works fine as long as there are not more than about 50 users working towards the database concurrently (though depending on whether it is…
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Best way to deploy ubuntu onto 100s of laptops?

I'm deploying a few hundred laptops next year. I want them to be dual boot machines, and have the windows side of things worked out using sysprep. For the second OS I want to use Ubuntu, but am uncertain how best to configure this. I can load a…
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Fully automated software deployment and update system

My office has about 120 Windows clients. We need a way to deploy and update free/downloadable software like Flash, Firefox, Skype etc.. This means that we want our clients to always have the latest versions of these pieces of software. We tried…
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PsExec will copy the .exe but won't let me pass arguments to it

This command copies the program test.exe to the remote system and executes it interactively: psexec \\marklap -c test.exe However I need to pass some arguments to the text.exe program. This doesn't work: psexec \\marklap -c "test.exe /S"
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Production deployment to EC2 with minimal downtime

I have a simple web application deployed on a large instance with EC2. I now want to deploy the latest code to this server but I want to do this in a way which minimizes downtime and is a smooth as possible for the end user. Here is my plan: Fire…
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Should you replace a whole department's PCs or half?

Our department are replacing the PCs that are over 3 years old. However, despite the age of the PCs, they're all similarly spec'd, so a 3 year old PC is still the same similar spec as a 1 year old PC. Thus half the people in the department will be…
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.Net Application Deployment

I'm writing a windows forms application to be sold to small to mid-size corporations and be used by users on a LAN. To make it easier for network administrators, I'm thinking of using .Net 3.5 SP1 and have the app running from a network share. This…
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Kubernetes, Docker and vm.max_map_count

While attempting to run ElasticSearch on K8 I ran into an error that would kill the container: max virtual memory areas vm.max_map_count [65530] is too low, increase to at least [262144] Fortunately this is pretty well documented and I was able to…
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"Touching" software deployment group policy programmatically or via script

I have an internal application that uses the Windows Installer. Each update to this application is a "major upgrade" (different product code, same upgrade code) and it calls RemoveExistingProducts. (In effect, this means that any time a new build is…
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Using rsync to quickly upload a file that is similar to another file

I'm putting together a deployment script which tars up a directory of my code, names the tar file after the current date and time, pushes that up to the server, untars it in a directory of the same name and then swaps a "current" symlink to point at…
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Can AWS CodeDeploy execute powershell scripts?

Is it acceptable to include Powershell scripts directly into the appspec.yml files? version: 0.0 os: windows files: - source: ./MyWebsiteFiles destination: /MyWebsite hooks: AfterInstall: - location: /Scripts/MyScript.ps1 timeout:…
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Deploying software updates to remote workers

We have a number of laptop users for which deploying software updates reliably and promptly is an issue. The circumstances are: The users rarely come into the office. As a result, their computers are rarely connected to the domain/corporate LAN…
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