One of the biggest application lifecycle management (ALM) challenges is dealing with the task of application deployment. The process can be complicated and multi-pronged, with many different ...

“Train as you fight, fight as you train” is an old Army truism. It is similarly true for the deployment process: “Plan your deployment, deploy your plan.” Deployment planning itself is a form of ...

IT personnel must do more with less today—that's a given. But with fewer resources and reduced budgets, they still need to be able to respond quickly to business needs and requirements. One place ...

Read "Windows Nano Server Deployment 101, Part 1: The Setup," here. In the first part of this series, I explained that I had created a proof of concept, graphical installer for Nano Server. If you ...

Does it seem like the term Agile is being tossed around wherever you look these days? Some IT developers seem to eat, sleep and breathe Agile. They probably even do multiple build and test iterations ...

Deploying software these days can feel like a real puzzle, right? You’ve got all these different places your app might need ...

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The previous article in our Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) series explained how to use Bootstrap.ini, the file that controls access to the shared drive that stores the deployment repository. We ...