DocAve Deployment Manager

DocAve Deployment Manager for Microsoft SharePoint

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

DocAve Deployment Manager meets this growing demand with a dependable, robust, and breakthrough solution that minimizes human error and cost overruns, accelerates service delivery, and facilitates pre-production operations for a successful SharePoint implementation.

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

DocAve Deployment Manager Technical Overview
 
Site-Level Design Deployment

• Deploy site-level design elements from source staging environment to multiple destination environments
• Comprehensive support for deploying site columns, content types, list/site templates, master pages, Web Part Gallery, etc.
• 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 (i.e. SSL certificates, etc…) from one environment to multiple destinations
• Replicate and deploy custom .NET assemblies required for your Microsoft SharePoint customizations in the Global Assembly Cache
• Replicate and 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 Microsoft SharePoint solutions, along with their versions, deployed across multiple farms to identify inconsistencies and possible trouble spots
  

Key Advantages of the DocAve Deployment Manager

• Reduce operational costs with automated release processes

Enhance IT efficiency by automating and simplifying this repetitive and time consuming process, allowing skilled resources to focus on more strategic, higher-value activities.

• Ensure consistency across all pre-production environments and production systems

DocAve Deployment Manager ensures that each distributed Microsoft SharePoint environment within the staging phases is an exact clone of each other. This enables complex system changes to be systematically and accurately propagated throughout the staging environment, resulting in a consistent and dependable production system.

• Improve service levels by standardizing SharePoint deployment and implementation processes

Without a standardized process to control the proliferation of SharePoint servers, organizations will face support challenges across diverse environments, increasing the risk of an unreliable platform. As IT is typically focused on serving the needs of organization initiatives, DocAve Deployment Manager allows IT to improve their quality of service and responsiveness by providing greater visibility and control over their sprawling systems.

• Prevent risk and liability by reducing manual efforts and limiting human error

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