Deployment Manager for SharePoint

• Simplify Solutions Management – Keep track of and detect which SharePoint solution packages need to be updated to ensure consistency and reliability across your farm, and inspect all solutions before deployment to ensure they are suitable for production and comply with your organization’s customization policies. You can then deploy, upgrade and retract solutions remotely from a single application to avoid the burden of native tools.
• Real-time Comparisons – Rapidly discover the differences between any two environments with the graphical Live Compare tool. With the visual cues it offers, you’ll know if a component from one environment needs to be deployed in another one.
• Easily Manage Deployment Schedules – This time-saving job management tool enables you to define, group, schedule and execute object copy and replication activities.
• Increase Deployment Flexibility – Simply click and drag any or all components and related content from one site to another. Changes can also be easily deployed to many sites across multiple SharePoint farms.
• Automatically Track All Changes – If something does go wrong in your production environment, you can use this handy tool to scan the deployment activity reports to see what errant component was moved and when. And with detailed error messages and alerts, you’ll have the confidence to quickly fix any deployment problems or rest assured that the deployment occurred correctly and swiftly.

Benefits

• Deploys both code and content across multi-tiered SharePoint environments
• Enables you to inspect solution packages to ensure they are suitable for production and comply with customization policies
• Shows you differences between environments for easily determining what should be deployed/updated
• Lets you select all items or a subset to deploy for flexible change management
• Enables you to group deployment activities to better control impact on systems and servers
• Lets you deploy changes from one site to many, to avoid duplicate tasks and save time
• Allows you to schedule deployment jobs for non-production hours
• Tracks deployment status and version history to help you resolve production issues and comply with best practices

System Requirements

Solutions Manager

• Windows XP or higher
• Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5

• Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
• Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Supported Objects

• SharePoint solutions (SharePoint 2010 and 2007 only)
• Sites, lists, libraries, fields, content types, content type and column groups
• Folders, documents, document sets, pages, publishing pages, discussion groups, wikis and items
• Web parts, workflows, InfoPath forms
• Term stores, term sets, terms and managed metadata columns
• Users, groups, permission levels, permissions and permission inheritance
• Templates, themes, master pages layout and many others

Supported SharePoint Environments

• SharePoint Server 2010: Intranet
• SharePoint Server 2010: Internet/Extranet
• SharePoint Foundation 2010
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007
• Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3
• SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) 2003 (read-only)
• Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v2 (read-only)

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