The deployment tag has no wiki summary.
3
votes
1answer
36 views
Software for deploying images to PC desktops in a small to medium enterprise [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Automatically Configure New Computers
A few colleagues of mine are currently manually configuring and maintaining about 40 desktop computers (Windows 7) on our floor. ...
0
votes
1answer
31 views
How to remove an entry from the registry during an MDT deployment
I'm working on the well known problem of MDT not wanting to automatically continue because of a legal disclaimer prompt at login. Our disclaimer is set at the domain policy, so I've created a new OU ...
0
votes
0answers
35 views
Chef-solo cannot locate an nginx recipe template
I have been recently experimenting with Chef. I thought I would attempt to rebuild my personal web server using chef-solo. It's an AWS instance running the Amazon 64bit Linux AMI.
My first ...
2
votes
4answers
97 views
Network install all versions of windows for univeristy IT help desk
I work at the help desk for students, faculty and staff at a large university. As part of our daily operations we see ourselves installing every version of windows (xp, vista, 7; both 32 and 64 bit of ...
0
votes
1answer
44 views
Difficulty deploying software to domain workstations with Server 2008
Using a GPO I've tried to deploy (in this case) Chrome to a series of locked down workstations with limited usage. This is on a server 2008 R2 installation, with the clients running Windows 7 ...
2
votes
2answers
97 views
SCCM recurring OSD task sequence
Update:
The question below was solved with the help of the accepted answer below. However, the actual cause of the problem was due to a bug. I have added another answer to this question below that ...
0
votes
2answers
74 views
Need to install windows service across a domain
Our IT dept wants to roll out a windows service across all machines
on its domain. The machines are running Windows XP. Is this possible? Also, is it possible to have targetted
rollout to a subset of ...
0
votes
2answers
100 views
Why shouldn't SharePoint Server 2010 and FAST Search Server 2010 be on the same server?
The Install Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint) TechNet article states:
Do not install SharePoint Server 2010 and FAST Search ...
21
votes
6answers
964 views
Automatically Configure New Computers
My company is in the process of upgrading all of our users from old Windows XP computers to newer quad-core Win7 computers. This is a good thing - it's long overdue that we upgrade our workstations - ...
1
vote
1answer
78 views
WDS “No response” only when notify and wait for approval
I have a WDS server setup for use with MDT2010, and everything was working fine until this morning. Now, whenever I try to boot from LAN, I get an error:
Downloaded WDSNBP...
Architecture: x64
...
2
votes
1answer
125 views
0
votes
0answers
43 views
Want to deploy two sites unig a linux/centos server
Hello I want to deploy two sites. One called drupal, and another site called drupal-gh. Currently, I can only make one site only work at a time - but I need both. This is because when I deploy a site, ...
0
votes
1answer
73 views
how to identify a customer by its network info?
I'm deploying a Linux device to multiple customers. A device executes an application that connects to my server. I need to uniquely identify a customer and map to its ID on server side. I cannot ...
0
votes
3answers
65 views
Remote, Windows to Windows Deployment
I am looking to copy files from a local windows machine (my development machine) to another windows machine (the production machine).
Currently, the only way I can move files from one machine to the ...
1
vote
1answer
70 views
Deploying git repo on production server without account password
What I would like to do
How can I clone a git repository on my production server, without providing the account's password, and passphrase for the SSH key?
Perhaps what I'm asking is not possible. ...
0
votes
1answer
43 views
Database deployment tool for windows
I need help with a MySQL database. We develop a big SaaS system on .net and we have 2 db servers:
Local for developers, they make changes on this etc. This server is in other city where all team ...
1
vote
2answers
150 views
Blinking Cursor when booting restored Ghost image
I create automated deployment scripts for universal workstation images and I've found something I can't work through. I'm hoping someone else has come across this before and I'm just not searching ...
0
votes
1answer
33 views
How should I handle static assets when deploying code to different webservers?
Say I have two production webservers (web1 and web2) and a static asset origin server (origin1), and I want to deploy new code that references new css/js/images.
After updating web1 and putting it ...
1
vote
1answer
28 views
What's the best way to atomically add files to a web directory?
So I have a strange question, but I'm working on a script to deploy a PHP codebase and want to see if something like this is possible:
I have a directory that Apache uses as a DocumentRoot:
...
2
votes
1answer
95 views
Windows deployment solutions: WDS vs. Acronis Snapdeploy vs. Ghost vs.?
Our group, which has in the past worked almost exclusively with Linux systems (and some Solaris), is taking on some responsibility for Windows workstation deployments (primarily in lab environments). ...
0
votes
0answers
29 views
Silent install of the Backup Exec 2010 Remote Administrator
I am trying to deploy the BE2010 Remote Administrator silently during OS deployment, but am having trouble with the setup.
The documentation I've seen implies that I can install the RA using these ...
4
votes
3answers
101 views
Am I misunderstanding the purpose of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and WDS?
I am not sure if I am confused as to the purpose of MDT.
We need to deploy a standard Windows 7 build to about 100 new computers, and more as time goes on.
Having followed a whole bunch of ...
0
votes
1answer
25 views
Windows Live Messenger redist for remote deployment
I can't seem to find the redist package for this software. download.live.com loads an exe that downloads appropriate packages on the fly, but I would like the MSIs for Messenger and the Outlook ...
0
votes
0answers
27 views
What is a good nginx setup permission/user wise?
I have a centos vps running Nginx under root, spawning processes as nobody. I created a user "deploy", who has a www directory to where, using ssh and capistrano, he will deploy rails applications. ...
1
vote
2answers
65 views
Permissions in a multiuser Linux environment
This question has been asked many times, but I haven't found a solution for this type of permission.
I have a VPS with multiple websites in chroot, each one running with a unique user, without root ...
2
votes
0answers
122 views
Deploying a production Node.js server
I've written a Node.js app, I'm looking to get it running on one of our production machines. This seems like a pretty common request yet I can't find an adequate solution. Is there not established ...
1
vote
3answers
37 views
Setting up Tomcat on shared drive for clustered environment
We have a production environment with externally load-balanced Tomcat servers running on multiple servers, serving HTTP requests and maintaining stick sessions.
Due to lack of complete build and ...
0
votes
0answers
34 views
Nginx - How to configure the virtual.conf to serve a Django application
I'm trying to serve a Django application to production. I have installed Gunicorn and now I need to setup a Nginx Virtual Host. I'm kind of lost on how to configure the "virtual.conf" from Nginx. I ...
0
votes
1answer
51 views
Deploy across multiple webservers, remove from load balancer on EC2
I'm wondering if there is a 3rd party application that can help me deploy a web project (website) to IIS across multiple web servers. While, taking one server out of the load balancer deploying, ...
0
votes
3answers
153 views
How can I fix puppet refusing to start and asking for “master.pp”?
I'm using the very latest version of puppet and have been following the Apress "Pro Puppet" guide step by step. I have installed puppet
sudo aptitude install ruby libshadow-ruby1.8
sudo aptitude ...
4
votes
2answers
188 views
What is the best way to clone Win7 machines?
I'm looking to buy 5 new Win7 boxes and would like to ease deployment by cloning the OS. What I would like to do is install a fresh OS (Dell doesn't seem to sell machines without preinstalled crapware ...
1
vote
2answers
46 views
Can't assign software to non-admin account
I'm trying to deploy software on our domain using group policy, but I am only able to do so if the user is a member of a group with administrative privileges. We do not want to allow users to install ...
0
votes
1answer
178 views
How to configure TFTPD32 to ignore non PXE DHCP requests?
I want to give our Windows guy a way of easily PXE booting machines for deployment by plugging his laptop into one of our site networks. I've set up a TFTPD32 configuration which does just that, and ...
0
votes
1answer
50 views
OS X 10.7, shell scripting to Windows Server 2003 shared folder
I have a remote WS2003 machine that I can remote into to manage an IIS server.
For convenience I also have the app root directly as a shared folder which I can mount in Finder on my OS X laptop.
...
1
vote
1answer
60 views
win 2008 r2 - iis 7.5 - doesn't have “Import Application…”
i have the local developement machine (win 7) with iis 7.5.7600 and i can deploy a website from .zip file that was generated with visual studio 2010 using "Import Application..." link in an iis ...
0
votes
2answers
36 views
Deploying a custom eclipse package
I'm planning to deploy eclipse to approximation 30 workstations running Ubuntu and would like to avoid a long list of settings/downloads that everyone needs to go through before they can start ...
1
vote
1answer
70 views
What logs exist on an Exchange Hub Server that should be moved off the C:\ drive?
I'm trying to move any logs, queues, etc off the default C:\ drive, but am having trouble locating all the various settings.
This gets tougher when you consider diagnostic logging, and everything ...
1
vote
2answers
75 views
Looking for a general solution: How to get notified when a software update is released [closed]
this is a general question about software and i hope this is the right platform for it.
maybe superuser.com is the right place but i will try it here first.
i already searched the net for anwers but ...
0
votes
2answers
57 views
Can url-rewriting be used for zero-downtime deployment of PHP on IIS?
I've seen this: Zero downtime uploads / Rollback in IIS, but for a small site, ARR seems like overkill. I'm wondering if it'd work to have a web.config like this
<?xml version="1.0" ...
1
vote
3answers
128 views
Configure HP RAID in Pre-OS environment
I need to set the RAID configurations of a HP machine during the provisioning process of OS deployment. I have come across a tool named Praid.exe but having read the documentation I get the impression ...
2
votes
1answer
121 views
Any reason not to skiprearm when deploying Win7?
If you always intend to deploy within your organization, and license windows with KMS, is there ever a reason not to include skiprearm=1 in your various unattend files?
Seems to let me get more use ...
2
votes
1answer
181 views
How to secure TeamCity deployment via Web Deploy service?
My team uses TeamCity for continuous integration. It will build, test and deploy web applications via Web Deploy to dev and qa web servers. The tricky part is deploying to a production web server - ...
1
vote
1answer
99 views
Basic deployment questions: CherryPy on Ubuntu
I have a modest CherryPy / SQLite application under development. I would like to put it on a server in the cloud for client testing. Towards that end I've spun up a small Ubuntu instance at ...
0
votes
2answers
145 views
Use Puppet to deploy files to all user's home directory
I want to deploy a simple text file (a git commit message template) to each user's home directory using Puppet.
I came across this post which seems very close, but the part I'm not clear on is how do ...
6
votes
2answers
205 views
Using DNS to push out new versions of web application
I'm thinking of pushing out new versions of our web application using a DNS.
We are currently hosting our application using EC2 so my thinking is that we can launch a new instance, deploy the new ...
0
votes
1answer
82 views
WSUS putting Internet Explorer 9 update into “Optional updates.”
I can't seem to find anyone else with this issue, but I'm deploying Internet Explorer 9 via WSUS to my clients. Some of them accept it and install it as a normal update but randomly others get it in ...
2
votes
1answer
73 views
Tools helpful for setting up virtual test environment
I'm looking for something similar to vagrant, but working with KVM. I'd like to setup a couple of machines with packages I point at using a single command, but I don't really want to write the whole ...
0
votes
0answers
43 views
Best Practice for keeping Master/Slave Data in Sync during deployment?
So far, one best practice I've discovered is as follows, but it has a couple holes.
Presume that you've got a single load balancer, 2 web servers (A & B) and 2 database servers (M & N - kept ...
2
votes
2answers
193 views
Automated Server cloning and deployment
I have an ERP system that requires a local installation on a Windows Terminal Server to operate properly. Right now I pay for each TS that I have the vendor install the software on directly. ...
0
votes
0answers
110 views
How can I exclude a sub-domain from Tomcats security-constraint (web.xml)?
At the end of my /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0/conf/web.xml (Tomcat 7), I have added the following configuration:
<!-- ======== Security Constraint for Development Phase ======== -->
...
