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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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GPO: How to determine why an .msi didn't install via Active Directory

I've created a GPO to push out an .msi packages to PCs in a particular OU. I've confirmed that: the target client PCs firewalls are not blocking traffic the folder containing the .msi is shared on the network the target PC's have had their GP…
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How to remove an entry from the registry during an MDT deployment

I'm working on the well known problem of MDT not wanting to automatically continue because of a legal disclaimer prompt at login. Our disclaimer is set at the domain policy, so I've created a new OU for staging, then blocked inheritance so it…
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Chef-solo cannot locate an nginx recipe template

I have been recently experimenting with Chef. I thought I would attempt to rebuild my personal web server using chef-solo. It's an AWS instance running the Amazon 64bit Linux AMI. My first objective is to install nginx. I have cloned the Opscode…
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Difficulty deploying software to domain workstations with Server 2008

Using a GPO I've tried to deploy (in this case) Chrome to a series of locked down workstations with limited usage. This is on a server 2008 R2 installation, with the clients running Windows 7 Professional. So, what I've done is: Setup a shared…
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Ubuntu juju and Eucalyptus?

Has anyone used juju (ensemble) to deploy softwares on Eucalyptus' instances successfully ? Although the official FAQ says that juju is only support EC2 ( currently ), but I've found someone (ex.) got OpenStack setting in juju's environment.yaml But…
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Need to install windows service across a domain

Our IT dept wants to roll out a windows service across all machines on its domain. The machines are running Windows XP. Is this possible? Also, is it possible to have targetted rollout to a subset of the machines?
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Why shouldn't SharePoint Server 2010 and FAST Search Server 2010 be on the same server?

The Install Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint) TechNet article states: Do not install SharePoint Server 2010 and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint on the same server. But…
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how to identify a customer by its network info?

I'm deploying a Linux device to multiple customers. A device executes an application that connects to my server. I need to uniquely identify a customer and map to its ID on server side. I cannot change a device soft for each customer individually…
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Remote, Windows to Windows Deployment

I am looking to copy files from a local windows machine (my development machine) to another windows machine (the production machine). Currently, the only way I can move files from one machine to the other is by manually using Ftp FileZilla client.…
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How should I handle static assets when deploying code to different webservers?

Say I have two production webservers (web1 and web2) and a static asset origin server (origin1), and I want to deploy new code that references new css/js/images. After updating web1 and putting it back on rotation, and right before I take web2 out…
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Windows Live Messenger redist for remote deployment

I can't seem to find the redist package for this software. download.live.com loads an exe that downloads appropriate packages on the fly, but I would like the MSIs for Messenger and the Outlook Connector. Any suggestions?
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client OS + soft deployment tools: advice alternatives to SMS

current client environment: 95% -xp, 5%- linux; we use disk image deployment software for client OS and standard software (like Office, arch, etc). can we find alternatives to Microsoft SMS for automation that tasks? Thanks.
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Deploy across multiple webservers, remove from load balancer on EC2

I'm wondering if there is a 3rd party application that can help me deploy a web project (website) to IIS across multiple web servers. While, taking one server out of the load balancer deploying, taking the second server out of the load balancer, and…
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How can I fix puppet refusing to start and asking for "master.pp"?

I'm using the very latest version of puppet and have been following the Apress "Pro Puppet" guide step by step. I have installed puppet sudo aptitude install ruby libshadow-ruby1.8 sudo aptitude install puppet puppetmaster facter I have edited…
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OS X 10.7, shell scripting to Windows Server 2003 shared folder

I have a remote WS2003 machine that I can remote into to manage an IIS server. For convenience I also have the app root directly as a shared folder which I can mount in Finder on my OS X laptop. What I want to do now is write a shell script which…
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