How to automate deployment of customizations?

[Uwe Kanndas]

Hello,

we have several CRM systems. One for development, one for testing and
one for productive use.

at the moment, we deploy our changes manually to each of the servers.
This is very time conusumable and very risky, because the human faktor
in creating errors.

Now i am searching the whole web for a solution, to automate our
deployments. with deployment i mean to automate:

1. create, update, delete entities
2. create, update, delete mappings
3. create, update, delete attribuntes
4. importing and publishing customisations
5. registering workflow assemblies and plugins
6. manipulating files on the server (e.g. replacing images at servers
file system)

Is there a best practice to do a few of these things? How do you deploy
your changes to your productive crm system?

thanks for any hints.

uwe

[bayareacrm]

Uwe, some time ago I saw a tool on codeplex that scheduled
importing/exporting of customizations. I just spent a few minutes looking for
it and couldn't find it.

Having experience in both sms&p as well as enterprise, I can tell you that I
would be extremely uncomfortable using it. There's no substitute (IMHO) for
good change control procedures, and while the human factor is a
consideration, there are other factors to be evaluated before I would
automate customization transportation.

Michael D. Mayo

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