Shorten Business One Deployment (Follow-Up from P2P)

Deploying SAP Business One Server and Clients can be time cumbersome and time consuming. We definitly have the goal to further streamline the installation experience of SAP Business One. Please share with us:
- What are you main challenges when installing Business One Server / Client?
- What are you main challenges when deploying a patch?
- We have the vision of installing Clients and/or patches with "one click". Please share with us your ideas to achieve this objective.
This thread is continuation from 'Shorten Business One deployment' <a href="http://p2p.sap.com/businessoneforum?type=join&login=1&uid=41FB661A76CED536C825C4E2B6FF4397&cid=91&go=z37225">discussion</a> in P2P SAP Business One Forum (Product Development Collaboration).
Previous discussion on P2P is summarized in the attached file.

- - What are you main challenges when installing Business One Server / Client?
The challenges sometimes come from the customer which would not like to invest more money to make their SBO installation more smooth. E.g: the HQ is in city A and the client is in city B, C and D. using V-Sat and Citrix maybe could solve but high investment cost. Another e.g. is slow connection to server from branches to HQ although using citrix + ICA.
- - M personal challenges are the patch level sometimes replace or even delete some functionality in previous patch, for example. SBO 2005A SP 01 PL 18 upgrade to PL 27, it made receipt from production can't be above PO quantity.
-- I think it is OK but I can't imagine the result will make it work well or not.
Rgds,

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[email protected]
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