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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Ramblings of a Microsoft.com PM : Deployment Automation</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/jim_scardelis/archive/tags/Deployment+Automation/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Deployment Automation</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Changes... (been busy)</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/jim_scardelis/archive/2006/05/29/430893.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 08:34:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:430893</guid><dc:creator>Jim Scardelis</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/jim_scardelis/comments/430893.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/jim_scardelis/commentrss.aspx?PostID=430893</wfw:commentRss><description>I've been kind of slow posting since a number of things have been in flux back at the office. Over the last few weeks: We had a re-org in the Microsoft.com space. Some of the chips haven't finished falling yet, I think, but essentially my team moved out...(&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/jim_scardelis/archive/2006/05/29/430893.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=430893" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jim_scardelis/archive/tags/General/default.aspx">General</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jim_scardelis/archive/tags/Deployment+Automation/default.aspx">Deployment Automation</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jim_scardelis/archive/tags/Development+Methodologies/default.aspx">Development Methodologies</category></item><item><title>Deployment automation...`</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/jim_scardelis/archive/2006/03/23/423020.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2006 03:02:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:423020</guid><dc:creator>Jim Scardelis</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/jim_scardelis/comments/423020.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/jim_scardelis/commentrss.aspx?PostID=423020</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face=Garamond size=4&gt;One of the side projects that I'm working on in Microsoft.com is called our "Deployment Automation 1.0" project. The goal is to codify some policies, processes, and standards around how we deploy projects into the operational environment. This is a big project, with people involved from several development teams, operations and management, many of whom have found different ways of doing this -- ranging from hand-written scripts to .msi files developed using a number of tools.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face=Garamond size=4&gt;Wish us luck.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face=Garamond size=4&gt;Oh, and if you have a favorite setup / deployment tool, I'd love to hear about it in a comment ....&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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