DocAve Deployment Manager

DocAve Deployment Manager

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Effective management and automation of release operations to promote content, customizations, and design elements throughout SharePoint environments is vital to a successful deployment. Without proper planning or control, errors or changes during the staging process could result in poor application reliability, increased time-to-value, and project delays.

DocAve Deployment Manager offers a robust solution that automates the change management of SharePoint solutions, customizations, and Web-Front End elements, thereby:

  • Minimizing human error and cost overruns
  • Accelerating service delivery
  • Facilitating pre-production testing and deployment operations

All Microsoft, All the Way

As with all AvePoint software, DocAve Deployment Manager leverages only fully supported Microsoft methodologies and API’s.

Key Advantages of the DocAve Deployment Manager

Reduce Operational Costs with Automated Change Management

Enhance IT efficiency by automating and simplifying repetitive, time-consuming SharePoint deployment customization processes, including solutions, design elements, and WFE customizations.  Allow skilled resources to focus on more strategic, higher-value activities.

Increase Production Environment Stability

Because DocAve Deployment Manager ensures that each Microsoft SharePoint farm within the development and staging phases is an exact clone of the other, complex system changes can be systematically and accurately propagated from development to test to staging to production, resulting in a consistent and dependable production system.

Prevent Risk and Liability by Reducing Manual Efforts and Limiting Human Error

Automation results in faster deployment, and minimizes the number of errors made. DocAve Deployment Manager helps mitigate the risks involved in deploying a complex environment like SharePoint, and reduces any service disruption by eliminating the possibility of breakage caused by poorly executed upgrades or change propagation.

DocAve Deployment Manager Technical Overview

DocAve Deployment Manager features

Site-Level Design Deployment

  • Deploy site-level design elements from a source environment to multiple destination environments
  • Comprehensive support for deploying customizations including site columns, content types, list/site templates, master pages, and Web Part Galleries
  • Plan-based deployment, including dual-scheduling options for added flexibility
  • Support for full or incremental deployment
  • Deploy design changes as frequently as once an hour
  • Optional deployment via import/export from staging location

Front-End Deployment

  • Deploy customized IIS settings from one environment to multiple destinations
  • Deploy custom .NET assemblies required for SharePoint customizations in the Global Assembly Cache
  • Deploy additional dependencies located on the front-end Web server file system

Solution Center

  • Ability to copy, deploy, retract, delete SharePoint solutions across multiple farms from a single interface
  • Graphical dashboard displaying deployment statuses of SharePoint solutions enterprise-wide to provide greater visibility of custom deployments across environments
  • Holistic view of SharePoint solutions, along with their versions, deployed across multiple farms to identify inconsistencies and possible trouble spots

DocAve Deployment Manager Resources

SharePoint Administration - Case Studies

Customer Case Studies:

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AvePoint Essential Guide

White Papers:

AvePoint Essential Guide

eGuides:

Intelligently Reducing SharePoint Costs through Storage Optimization

 

SharePoint Deployment - Product Brochure

Product Brochure:

SharePoint Deployment - User Guides