Staging - Production Deployment

I won't be able to work with the Contribute software for a
day or two, but I'm trying to understand something about it now.
I'm planning on using the two server, staging - deployment
approach. Does Contribute push content from the staging server to
the production server, or only to the staging server? Based on what
I've read in the documentation, I can't tell. Some things make me
think only staging, while others suggest both.

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you wanted to know the best practices to deploy SharePoint Portal in different SharePoint environment.
If the site is not existing in the production server, we can save the site from the development server, and then import it to the production server.
But if the site is already existing in the production server, we should follow these steps to just add the taxonomy and content types to the production server:
Save the site from Dev as a template
Import the template as solution in Visual Studio
Remove unnecessary items from the solution(Please pay more attention on it. If a content type/list... in the solution is existing in the production site too, it will replace the
same object existing in the production after deployment)
Package the solution
Deploy the solution in the production
For more detailed, please see:
http://ahmedmadany.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/importing-sharepoint-solution-package-wsp-into-visual-studio-2010/
There is a similar thread for your reference.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7dcf61a8-1af2-4f83-a04c-ff6c439e8268/best-practices-guide-for-deploying-sharepoint-2010-from-dev-to-test-to-production?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious
Thanks & Regards,
Jason
Jason Guo
TechNet Community Support

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Best practices for deployment from Dev /Staging /Production in SharePoint ?

Hi All,
What is a best practices to deploy SharePoint Portal to dev / staging / Production.
I have custom solution deployed using WSP file. But I have done some changes using sharepoint designer.
Like as Designer workflow, master pages etc.
How can I deploy my document libraries and list to dev to prod using best practices?
Thanks
Balaji More

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you wanted to know the best practices to deploy SharePoint Portal in different SharePoint environment.
If the site is not existing in the production server, we can save the site from the development server, and then import it to the production server.
But if the site is already existing in the production server, we should follow these steps to just add the taxonomy and content types to the production server:
Save the site from Dev as a template
Import the template as solution in Visual Studio
Remove unnecessary items from the solution(Please pay more attention on it. If a content type/list... in the solution is existing in the production site too, it will replace the
same object existing in the production after deployment)
Package the solution
Deploy the solution in the production
For more detailed, please see:
http://ahmedmadany.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/importing-sharepoint-solution-package-wsp-into-visual-studio-2010/
There is a similar thread for your reference.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7dcf61a8-1af2-4f83-a04c-ff6c439e8268/best-practices-guide-for-deploying-sharepoint-2010-from-dev-to-test-to-production?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious
Thanks & Regards,
Jason
Jason Guo
TechNet Community Support

New-AzureReservedIP : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Slot'. The argument "MyIP" does not belong to the set "Staging,Production"

I am trying to reserve an IP address in Microsoft Azure using simple PowerShell cmdlet:
$reservedIP = "MyIP"
$location = "West US"
New-AzureReservedIP – ReservedIPName $reservedIP –Label $reservedIP –Location $location
I get an error:
New-AzureReservedIP : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Slot'. The argument "MyIP" does not belong to the
set "Staging,Production" specified by the ValidateSet attribute. Supply an argument that is in the set and then try
the command again.
Any help?
Thanks

Greetings!
Please try the references below which elaborates on the usage of the cmdlet:
New-AzureReservedIP
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn690120.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn769136.aspx
Thank you,
Arvind

Production deployment - Execution agent , Port connection

Hello Friends,
We are new to ODI. As part of production deployment, we have 1 master rep in PROD env and 1 Work rep per env[Dev & QA]. Like to clarify if the execution port defined (Ex: 20912) be opened between the Server were ODI agent is installed and repository DB Server? (OR) is it also required to open port 20912 to be accessed from were ODI client is installed as well?? in case we plan to use another production agent install as scheduler agent to test large volumn data loads.
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ODI client install -> Win2003 Server
ODI Agent -> Unix - Solaris 10
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It should be open where you have scheduled the agent (in your case Unix Solaris 10)

Cloud service restored to the last production deployment

I've update production deployment yesterday morning then I've made changes to service files using remote connection
add and update files and everything was OK.
today morning all the changes I've done after deployment was undone and customers use the old version and this cost us hundreds of thousand of pounds
i need to know what's happen nothing appeared in operations log

Hi,
>> I've made changes to service files using remote connection
As far as I know this is the reason, we could use remote connection to do some development or troubleshoot without redeploy our application, but I don't suggest you use it to update application in product, because the
cloud service will recover if the role needs to be recycled for whatever reason. I suggest you redeploy the application after make some changes
Best Regards,
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Project environments (development, staging, production) and modular application development

Hey,
seeing the early status for the Module/Integration-libraries, have any of you already derived a way to handle team-development for modular projects? Especially with different environments for the application to run in, requiring parameters (like the server to communicate to) to be dependent on the environment.
My "perfect solution" would include local development using Flash Builder 4 and the integrated facilities to run an application as a "Web application" using an embedded Tomcat in Flash Builder 4 as the backend to the UI/Flex project as well as staging/production environments where the compiled flex-project resides on the same machine as the backend that it's talking to.
Basically my question has two parts:
How do you configure your application (if at all) to change central parameters for your application according to the environment (e.g. the server url, or the path to modules which are loaded at runtime)
How do you integrate that into the local Flash Builder workflow, which launches your application using a local URL
I'd love to hear your experiences with this, I'll report back if I established a structure I think worth sharing
best Jonas
P.S.: we're using Maven/Hudson for building and continuous integration, too, so those have some requirements themselves

What we do usually is the following :
* we have a <contextRoot>${my.web.context}</contextRoot> parameter in the flex app pom.xml file
* we have linked resources in FlashBuilder to target and compile in the local webapp deployement folder

Change PowerPivot data source when deploying from Dev - Staging - Production

We have PowerPivot workbooks we store in SharePoint 2013 Libraries.
We have a powershell script which automates the deployment of sites and pages. Is there a way using PowerShell (or any scripting language really) to look into the workbook and change the PowerPivot data source when deployment from one environment to
another? (Dev -> Stage -> Prod) We need to update the workbooks to point to our SSAS cubes Dev -> Stage -> Prod respectively.
Thank you for any expert advice you may offer,
Sincerely,
-Craig

Basically, it's an excel file (XLSX) file and you can use excel OM for this.
A simple program (in C# or any language of your choice) can be written to do the following and achieve what you need.
using XLS = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;
string info = null;
XLS.Application application = null;
try
application = new XLS.Application();
var book = application.Workbooks.Open(filepath);
foreach (XLS.WorkbookConnection wc in book.Connections)
  switch (wc.Type)
   case XLS.XlConnectionType.xlConnectionTypeOLEDB:
    info = wc.Name + " " + wc.OLEDBConnection.Connection.ToString() + "\r\n";
    break;
book.Close();
finally
if (application != null)
  application.Quit();
Hopefully, this was helpful.

Best practice - Production deployment

what is the best practice to deploy custom built application in production?
Where to deploy in Admnistration server or in manged server?
Thanks,
Shankar

Hi Shankar ,
It is always better to deploy your application in the Managed Server. You do not need to restart your admin server while you need to restart your managed server for changing your environment related to your application. Admin Server is meant for administering all the managed server instances. You can have many different managed servers for different specific applications. So it is a best practise to deploy your application in the managed server.
Regards,
Ilaya

Java webservice production deployment

I have installed JWSDP1.0.01 and created a webservice 'VisitantWS' using the same. I can deploy, access and consume web service alright in the JWSDP deployment environment.
Next, I am trying to create a production level environment for which, I have installed IIS and Tomcat4.0 on seperate machine with IIS redirector in place.
For deployment of my webservice in the Tomcat, I am placing the .war file(from \dist directory of JWSDP) in to the \webApps and restart IIS, Tomcat. It extracts the .war file and creates folder hirerchy in \work directory automatically. Now, when I try to check my deployment using
http://localhost:8080/VisitantWS-jaxrpc/VisitantWS
it says 'the requested resource (/VisitantWS-jaxrpc/VisitantWS) not found.
I have changed my server.xml and added the context for VisitantWS to it.
when I check the status of the service using
http:/localhost:8080/manager/list
it says
'/VisitantWS-jaxrpc:stopped:0
/running:0'
trying to reload the service gives me
'FAIL - Encountered exception java.lang.IllegalStateException: Container StandardContext[VisitantWS-jaxrpc] has not been started'
How can I deploy the webservice created using JWSDP for the production use where I dont have to use Ant (which is the part of JWSDP) for the deployment or ship JWSDP alongwith my product. Am I missing something for the deployment of the webservice on Tomcat?
Hemal

It was almost a year back and I have been distracted to other stuff but as I think of it now, having tomcat and IIS on different machines must be the problem as the webserver need the webcontainer to be on the same machine to redirect the requests. not sure but I plan to get back to it soon.

** Production Deployment Topologies ... **

Hi all,
I've been reading up on Coherence deployment topologies and would like some assistance on the best practice for deployment into a Production environment.
In production deployments, what are the recommended deployment best practices:
I understand that:
* Coherence Cache Clusters should be configured to run on a separate Multicast/Unicast addresses to avoid impact with any other applications.
However:
* Should Coherence Cache Servers deployed into their own JVM separate from the Applications that use them?
* Or, Should the Coherence Cache servers be configured to use the same JVM as the applications?
* In a multi-Container environment, where many containers hosting many different applications is possible, what is the best deployment topology?
* If Coherence Cache Servers and Applications are separated into different JVMs, how should they be configured to communicate with eachother (eg. Extend TCP Proxy??)
Any help would be appreciated.

Hello,
I suggest taking a look at this document (especially towards the bottom):
http://coherence.oracle.com/display/COH34UG/Best+Practices
In general we do recommend separate JVMs to host cache servers. As you mention, you have the option of having cache client JVMs either join the cluster or connect to a proxy using Extend TCP. Here are the pros and cons of each approach:
Cluster Membership
Pros: less network "hops" per operation, highest performance
Cons: for best results, requires clients to be "near" servers, preferably in the same subnet/switch; poorly tuned GC on clients can affect cluster
Extend
Pros: allows for more flexible network topology since it uses TCP (i.e. clients can be in a separate network or separated from storage nodes through a firewall), poorly tuned GC will not have as adverse an effect
Cons: requires more configuration, more "hops" per operation (although affinity with a properly tuned near cache can make this moot)
Thanks,
Patrick

BO 4.0 production deployment recommendations

Hi All,
We would like to understand what would be the good approach to segregate the different services into different physical machine.
When we do the sizing using quicksizer, the output is in SAPS and Memory size for four different tiers.
a) Web App Server
b) Inteligence Tier
c) Intelligence DB Tier
d) Processing Tier
Coming to the questions,
1) The processing tier is expected to consume lots of memory so it is recommended to be put on it's own physical server.
2) Combining the processing server with Intelligence tier - Will this impact the performance of the normal activities like navigating and scheduling in case of processing server getting overloaded?
3) Merging Web App Server and Intelligence services - Will this have any impact in performance of the overall user experience?
4) Do we need to have a separate server for the repository database? Can it not be co-hosted with the other Oracle production databases. What are the things that we need to consider to co-host the database?
5) Usage of VM servers for all these tiers - Any issues in using virtual servers to host all these different services?
In short, we need to be able to bring down the number of servers without compromising the performance and usability. We are looking at deploying BO 4.0 on 100 concurrent user license with all the client tools such as Crystal, WebI, Analysis OLAP, Dashboard and Explorer.
6) Am thinking of proposing one virtual server for (web apps + intelligence) and another for processing server. And recommend to co-host the database repository. The processing server to have 32 GB RAM on 8 or 16 core machine. The web + intelligence services to be hosted on a 8 core 16 GB RAM machine.
7) The processing server - is it good to split them to two different physical server so that we can host different client related services on the different physical server?
I know that I am asking too many questions but I do not find deployment options and recommendations anywhere.
Thanks & Regards,
Mohanraj

Have you looked at the Business Intelligence Platform Planning Guide and Admin guide ?
They have information that will allow you to answer your questions.
This sort of questions fall under what SAP Services do and is almost impossible to answer without intimate knowledge of your requirements, business neeeds and resources available....
In general :
1) The processing tier is expected to consume lots of memory so it is recommended to be put on it's own physical server.
Yes
2) Combining the processing server with Intelligence tier - Will this impact the performance of the normal activities like navigating and scheduling in case of processing server getting overloaded?
It might, depends on resources available to it.
3) Merging Web App Server and Intelligence services - Will this have any impact in performance of the overall user experience?
Usualy yes, again - depends on resources available, the bottleneck will be in disk and network I/O
4) Do we need to have a separate server for the repository database? Can it not be co-hosted with the other Oracle production databases. What are the things that we need to consider to co-host the database?
Recemended way is to have repository DB separare, iside your production Oracle DB's.
5) Usage of VM servers for all these tiers - Any issues in using virtual servers to host all these different services?
Possible, if you fully understand limitations and benefits of VM environments.
6) Am thinking of proposing one virtual server for (web apps + intelligence) and another for processing server. And recommend to co-host the database repository. The processing server to have 32 GB RAM on 8 or 16 core machine. The web + intelligence services to be hosted on a 8 core 16 GB RAM machine.
co-hosting repo DB is bad idea, the rest migth work.
better to have web tier, intelligence and processing separate...
7) The processing server - is it good to split them to two different physical server so that we can host different client related services on the different physical server?
Yes, usualy it is a good idea...

BO Production deployment of universes based on SAP BW query

Hi there,
We just set a scenario on a BO development machine, and would like to deploy all these created objects (webi/cr documents, universes based on SAP BW queries... ) to a BO Production machine.
How can this procedure be performed?
As far as I know, import wizard should be used, but what happens with universes that are referring to SAP BW queries? Obviously, universe in BO Production environment should point to the same BW query name, but from SAP BW Production system, not development.
Is import wizard capable of doing this step? If not, what should be done in order to replicate your universes based on BW queries from BO Development to BO Production?
Thanks and best regards,
David.

Hi David,
which version of BOBJ are you using? The LifeCycle Manager (LCM) may be interesting for you. Runs only on Windows and only for BOBJ XI 3.1 though.
Installation guide:
[http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/xi31_LCM_Install_en.pdf]
User's guide
[http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/xi31_LCM_User_en.pdf]
Regards,
Stratos

Questions for the wiseman before production deployment

Hi, I have a number of questions I would like to ask before deploying the webelements into a production environment. who do I contact to answer my questions and concerns? Thanks.

hey Michele, here's the answers to your questions..
1. not sure what you mean by this but pass through html is a supported method and feature in xi & xir2. webelements is a function library that uses this method. rather than having everyone create their own code each time for pass through html components, we've institutionalized the code in a custom function library.
2. there is support via Global Services should you need help with a project / implimentation. contact your sales rep should you wish to go the Global Services route. there is no support via Customer Assurance as this is considered custom code...i.e. same as if you were using the sdk to do some custom work. there is this forum and hopefully it will ramp up so that more people use it.
3. not at this point. most of the samples though have instructions on them, plus the Users Guide is pretty big and there's also the video of David Taylor's presentation at http://diamond.businessobjects.com/node/1575
4. this tool does not add the ability to write to the database...that ability has been around since v9 of crystal. this tool adds the ability to create an easy interface to do this which was lacking with regular prompt methods.
5. pass through html must be activated on the crystal reports web server...see the user guide for more info.
6. these controls simply append textÂ to a report viewer...so you are going to see no more performance lag on a report than you would if you put a bunch of text formulae on a report.
7. see 2. it would be the same if you're building a custom app...global services support, forums, but no customer assurance support.
8. one could really write their own tool to do this as pass through html is the method that makes this possible. clients have been writing their own controls since v9 of crystal. webelements is simply a larger library wherein the controls all act in conjunction with opendocument syntax and the prompting method in crystal.
9. this comes from business objects.

OWB 10.2 Production deployment article and Licensing caveats!

Hi All,
If you haven't already read Mark Rittman's blog on OWB in a production environment, it is well worth reading:
http://www.rittman.net/2007/02/14/running-owb10gr2-in-a-production-environment/#comments
In particular, read up on the licensing. If you are doing anything non-trivial, chances are that you need the "Enterprise Edition" which came as a shock to me.
As I interpret the licensing (see the license link in the article):
If you are using more than just the "Default_Configuration" you need Enterprise edition.
If you deploy your warehouse to a different instance than where your meta-data resides, you need the Enterprise edition.
If you deploy BI objects to Discoverer from OWB, you need Enterprise edition.
If you have more than one configuration, you need Enterprise edition.
In addition the type 2 and 3 SCDs, Data Quality etc are add-ons. By the time you add all of this up, Informatica isn't looking all that expensive anymore!
Be careful!
- Mike

Hi Mike,
You make excellent points here.
IMHO, The enterprise option is a complete rip off. There is really no functionality provided that you cannot do yourself with OMB scripting and a little ingenuity.
This is really just another example of Oracle trying to suck money out of us any way they can. To make matters worse, most of these features never work as advertised.
Beware Oracle, that little software company in Redmond Washington is catching up - fast! And I don't believe the term "add ons" is in their vocabulary...

Pre production deployment checklist

Hi all.
Iam in the process of adding, couple of channels to the running production environment.
Is there anything that i should consider technically before deploying my new channels on the production environment?
I have two challenges :
1) To add channels so that it fits into the exsisting layout exactly. For this, what are the things that i should consider before importing the channels? Should i concentrate on the Tab provider being used currently?
2) how would i make sure, these new channels must appear for all exsisting ldap users.
I appreciate any feedback that get me started confidently.
Thanks in advance
Veera

I would add to the list:
- run reconciliation report beetween AM accounting and GL accounting.
- set Company Code as "in production" for FI
- set Company Code as "in production" for assets
- create variants for the programas that creates DME files (tipically F110...)
- Documents, vendor, assets, customers, range numbers
- check that all the customer and vendor banks are already created in the system
- modify bank descriptions if needed
regards

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