RE: Is useful the parallel development-production schema with Sharepo

From: Izzat Sabbagh (isabbagh_at_itccanarias.org)
Date: 11/04/04 

Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 00:52:04 -0800

Hi Deyra,

It was very useful your mail. But there is something that
maybe it can be the big issue....How do you do that
deploying of functional changes only (webparts,
templates, etc)?
That is the answer that I need, because when you make the
backup from production to development for taking the last
version and develop your changes..how do you that?

Thanks in advance,

Izzat Sabbagh
ITC

>-----Original Message-----
>We have created a very similar infrastructure here - but
you have to be very
>careful how you go through test and deployment.
>We have a development server with SPS and SQL both on
the Prod box with SQL
>on a seperate server.
>Because we deployed SPS for our entire corportation -
there was a need to
>have a server fully functional for users - without it
being in production.
>All of our training and pre-launch work was done with
users on the
>development box. When we were ready to go live - we
used the sharepoint
>backup util. to back everything up - and we restored it
to prod.
>Once we went live - none of the users had access to the
dev box anymore - I
>took away all access to illeviate any confusion.
>
>There isnt an increment restore - or a delta restore
that lets you only
>restore certain things - so if you are working from
Prod - and you restore
>development ontop of it - you loose the difference.
>
>For all future dev work - I am restoring production back
to development and
>doing any mods there - testing the new functionality -
and then deploying the
>functional changes only (webprts, templates, etc) to the
prod server in
>offtime.
>
>Whatever you do - before you change anything - make sure
you back up both
>servers before you delete ANY portal site.
>A few docs in a doc library arent that bad - alot of
extra WSS SItes, cutson
>data, etc -and you might have some pretty unhappy
people. (experience speaks
>volumes on this one ..)
>
>Good luck
>
>Deyra
>
>
>
>"Izzat Sabbagh" wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We have beggined a Sharepoint Portal Development
project. As usually, we
>> have installed two instances of the tool, the
development and the production
>> one.
>>
>> We have made some stable things in the development one
and using the tool of
>> sharepoint for making security backups and restoring
we have created the
>> production version. Till here all is ok, some testing
users have uploaded
>> some documents. An now we have modified some things in
the initial
>> design...if we try to update the production version
there is a message
>> telling me that we must delete the site before
restoring the new version.
>>
>> So the question is...once the users have uploaded
documents..this schema
>> (development-production) is not usefull anymore with
sharepoint? How I update
>> the production version with my new developed features
without loosing the
>> documents uploaded to it?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>>
>> Izzat Sabbagh
>> ITC
>>
>.
>

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