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What is the point of staging?

I thought I'd worked this out, but after reading Continuous Delivery (excellent book) I'm a little confused. They talk about having servers for: development various forms of automated tests user acceptance testing (UAT) - ie sitting down with the…
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Non-R2 vs R2 versions of Microsoft products

Is the R2 version just a major update for the original product with the same name (e.g. Windows 2012 vs Windows 2012 R2) or are they actually considered separate products that must be purchased (or upgraded to, much like going from Windows Vista to…
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Impossible to deploy a website using Web IIS Deploy Task with a non-admin account

I want to deploy a website using the TFS Release Manager and the Web IIS deployt Task. It works perfectly when the account used is a local admin account. But with another non-admin account, I encountered this error…
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Delayed software release using pre-fetched update data?

I am currently specing out the software requirements for a new project which will be in locations with intermittent network connections. Since some of our locations will have intermittent network connections. We will have (almost?) all software…
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How to create Rollback in TeamServices build definition?

I need to create rollback if deployment has failed. I only need this task group to run when the previous deployment has failed. I tried to run task without task group but just only one task is bypassed when the deployment works fine, I need when…
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Ways to manage & automate Chromium & Firefox updates & releases for Windows clients?

Given the privacy concerns & data stealing via Chrome & Microsoft browsers, we'd like to do this for our Windows client machines. Here I am specifically asking about Firefox & Chromium and not Google Chrome.…
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How can I connect VS2013 Release Management on a non-domain Windows 10 machine

I've got 2 machines: A corporate desktop machine which is running Windows 7 SP1 which resides on the corporate domain and which I log into using a corporate domain account. A personal laptop that I use when working from home via the Cisco VPN…
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Compare package versions of different debian releases

I installed a server using debian-testing (jessie). Well, I regret it. They already broke the complete system twice because systemd suddenly required additional kernel features. And I don't want to have so many updates any more... Before I try to…
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web folder release script swap

I am looking to have three web folders one would serve as a backup and rollback and one for testing new releases. /var/web/project /var/web/project_test /var/web/project_backup Say I upload my code to project_test and I'm happy with it. I'm now…
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Managing svn repo with puppet/mcollective

I'm interested to hear how people manage code deployments and how they tie it into their orchestration system. I've not been able to find a good puppet subversion module which works the way I want. Say I split my application servers into two groups,…
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