Today Windows deployment of A2 got a lot easier. Specifically you no longer need to run Apostrophe with administrator privileges, because we no longer create symbolic links to asset folders on Windows. Instead we just copy them, which only takes a moment for asset files anyway.
This feature was published as an update to the apostrophe module.
Note that if you are already running as administrator and want to stop, you may find you need to remove the contents of the public/modules folder as administrator first.
(On Linux, MacOS, etc., this is not an issue because symbolic links work for non-root users.)
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THOMAS BOUTELL, DEV & OPS