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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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Is there a Pre-deployment Windows Workstation Verification Program?

When deploying machines in our enterprise we run through a series of checks before deployment. Some of these include: Verify required files and folders have been copied to the computer Verify all required applications have been installed Verify…
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Managing self-updating Windows software in GPO-deployed packages

Being very new to Windows software distribution for a small network (<50 clients) I was wondering how software packages like Adobe's Reader or Java are handled. I can deploy them as MSIs via group policies just fine. But what happens when the client…
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Published software not displayed in Add/Remove Programs

I just followed How to use Group Policy to remotely install software in Windows Server 2003 to try publishing a software (MSI file). I could follow all the steps, but the supposedly successfully published software does not appear on client/user…
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Group policy software installation Upgrade vs Replace

I select upgrade in gpo software install to upgrade an existing package. I am not replacing the package. Will the old package and the upgrade package be installed on new computers joining the domain?
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Development, Testing, Staging and Production model

I'm developing a run of the mill django powered website with a Postgres database. I develop locally and have 3 VPS servers for Testing, Staging and Production. Each VPS runs their own Linux / Apache / Python / Postgres stack, with it's own…
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Can I upgrade a managed disk used by an Azure VM without having to redeploy the VM?

I'm trying to convert a separate managed disk I added to my Windows 2019 Server VM from Standard SSD to a Premium SSD. According to the steps at https://docs.microsoft.com/bs-latn-ba/Azure/virtual-machines/windows/convert-disk-storage, I'll have to…
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File locked only for Developer that tries to deploy

Our Developers work with VisualStudio 2017 They use a Post-Build PowerShell function that I wrote, to publish the application to the correct destination. Sometimes (1 out of 100 times) they get the following error: Copy-Item : The process cannot…
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Kubernetes: detect and auto-update deployment on image update

We're running multiple, globally distributed Kubernetes clusters that need to run the same software. When we release an update to this software (as a Docker image uploaded to a private Docker repo), our current deployment pipeline needs to iterate…
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Where can I find a beginner's guide to using sysprep for deploying Windows 7?

I am new to Windows 7, but want to deploy it in a Netware (read: no Active Directory, no domain, etc.) environment. I have used Novell Zenworks for imaging and deploying Windows XP in the past, and have never used sysprep because it was never…
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Is it possible to populate an S3 bucket through a CloudFormation template?

I need to store some files for my CF template (GraphQL schema, Lambda source, etc) into an S3 bucket that will also (hopefully) be defined in the same template, as that seems to be the only way outside of dropping the contents directly into the…
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Automated software testing on real hardware

I'm currently working on a small testing farm at work and especially the part of resetting the machines after a test was run gives me some headaches. Before we decided to get a couple of dedicated test machines with different hardware configurations…
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what is better: three small VPS or a bigger one VPS

I'm interested in deploying a django application with its database. So I would like to know what do you think what can be better in terms of performance: Three linodes 540 (720) or one linode 1440 (2880). I would like to have one to serve static…
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How do I configure a WinRM jump host for use with Ansible?

How do I configure a jump host to access Windows servers that I have no direct access to? The Ansible documentation explains how to do this for Linux but doesn't mention how to achieve something similar when using WinRM against Windows servers.
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Installing MSA (Managed Service Accounts) using Windows deployment tools

I have to install several new application servers (2012R2) for a project which will run IIS and MSMQ. I need to script the complete install, so I need to be able to change permissions on IIS Application Pools for instance. I plan to use MSA's for…
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Prevent rsync from deleting excluded directories

I'm using rsync through Ansible's synchronize-module with the following task definition: synchronize: src='{{ local_app_path }}/.' dest='{{ remote_app_path }}/' perms=no owner=yes rsync_opts=--delete-after Running this task generates the following…
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