Grinding Gears - Software Repackaging and Deployment for the Windows Platform

Grinding Gears - Software Repackaging and Deployment for the Windows Platform

What is the rationale upon which a software deployment is built? How does a software packaging engineer qualify a decision to use one method or another for each new task? When should you repackage using a snapshot process, versus making a transform file, versus writing a script? Should you bundle your application into a base operating system image library, or install it on layer 1 or 2 using a task sequence? Or should you deploy it later? How do you quantify the advantages of automation?<br /><br />What are your options for packaging, testing, and deploying software? What kinds of testing do I need to worry about? What about Group Policy? What about scripting?<br /><br />In this book I will explore all of these questions and more. I will also dive into some of the more common tools and techniques used to prepare software for mass distribution in an enterprise environment. But what if you only support a dozen computers? No worries, we will explore that end of the range as well. <br /><br />Scripting, packaging, transforms, updates, upgrades, removals, group policy, MDT and WAIK, Configuration Manager and OSD images and task sequences, and much more. This is the life of a software deployment engineer. Let's see if it's something you'd like to pursue.