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 ...

The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit offers advanced settings that allow you to automate the deployment process–and the CustomSettings.ini file lets you take that automation a step further. The previous ...

Read "Windows Nano Server Deployment 101, Part 2: The Execution," here. Earlier this week, I heard someone say that once Windows Server 2016 is released, Nano Server will become the new preferred ...

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 ...

It’s easy to deploy workloads into the cloud. So easy, in fact, that some organizations are starting to put the brakes on the practice. In the early cloud days, a unit manager could spin up a few ...