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From: Phil on 12 Nov 2009 09:15 Configuration deployment test -> staging -> prod ? How to automatically I would like to know if there are any software that can help us propagating SharePoint configurations changes from one environment to another? More precisely, when we start working on new functionalities, we do everything on the development server, then once everything is ok, we deploy to test, staging and so on. The problem we are facing is that most of the new functionalities only require the configuration of OOTB features. Since those operations takes a lot time and are error prone when reproducing them manually, we would like to know if there are tools available that can push those changes for us without affecting production data such as the document already inserted in document libraries, document metadata, workflows and content types ? Type of changes we are doing: Create and remove document library view Modification of existing document library view Create and remove site, list, list items and document library permissions Modification of existing site, list, list items and document library permissions Modification to list general setting, content types Etc… I know they are tool that can highlight the differences between two environments (global compare) but we need something that can speed up this lengthy portion of our work and also help us improving our software quality. Thanks in advance FYI: We are using MOSS 2007 SP2,WSS SP2, NLB environment 2 Front end, SQL 2005, Window Server 2003 R2
From: Brad Helicher Brad on 29 Nov 2009 09:01
Hi Phil, Per your question re: software options for propagating updates across SharePoint environments, you may choose to also consider ROSS from RepliWeb (3rd party solution: www.repliweb.com/ross). ROSS is built to manage replication/deployment across stages (ex: dev to test to prod) and multi-site. ... with a management layer to govern the process of change control. Good luck w/ your project. Brad "Phil" wrote: > Configuration deployment test -> staging -> prod ? How to automatically > > I would like to know if there are any software that can help us propagating > SharePoint configurations changes from one environment to another? > > More precisely, when we start working on new functionalities, we do > everything on the development server, then once everything is ok, we deploy > to test, staging and so on. > > The problem we are facing is that most of the new functionalities only > require the configuration of OOTB features. Since those operations takes a > lot time and are error prone when reproducing them manually, we would like to > know if there are tools available that can push those changes for us without > affecting production data such as the document already inserted in document > libraries, document metadata, workflows and content types ? > > Type of changes we are doing: > > Create and remove document library view > Modification of existing document library view > > Create and remove site, list, list items and document library permissions > Modification of existing site, list, list items and document library > permissions > Modification to list general setting, content types > Etc… > > I know they are tool that can highlight the differences between two > environments (global compare) but we need something that can speed up this > lengthy portion of our work and also help us improving our software quality. > > Thanks in advance > > > FYI: We are using MOSS 2007 SP2,WSS SP2, NLB environment 2 Front end, SQL > 2005, Window Server 2003 R2 |