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Deploying Dynamics Applications

Thomas Hansen – Director, appSolutions a|[email protected]

http://www.app-solutions.com

© 2003 http://www.app-solutions.com

appSolutions a|s ?

Many years PROGRESS technology experience Tech Support, Consulting, Training, Design &

Development Dynamics Framework

Active in initial and existing development of POSSE & Progress Dynamics™

Experience in developing and deploying Dynamics based applications

Roundtable TSMS™ Evaluation, implementation, training,

customization, support & sales


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Agenda

Deployment pre-requisites Preparing for deployment Deployment using Dynamics tools Deployment with Roundtable Questions ?


Deployment pre-requisites Preparing for deployment Deployment Scenarios Deployment using Dynamics tools Deployment with Roundtable Questions ?


Deployment Considerations

Dynamics Site numbers Must be unique for all ICFDB databases Use site numbers from Site Number

Allocator on POSSE – http://www.possenet.org

Central ”master” database to store all data and make deployments from

Data versioning Must be enabled for all tables to be

deployed Set in Dynamics Entity Control


Deployment Considerations ...

Naming Conventions Source code names Directory names

Product Module and Directory Structure Use to partition application into product

and object types / target partition


Preparing for deployment

Deployment Configurations Servers

AppServer & WebSpeed Web Server

Clients WebClient Client-Server

DataSets Pre-defined DataSets Custom DataSets Remember DataSet definitions !


Preparing for deployment ...

Source Code & Static Files Framework Files & Application Files Static Objects Dynamic Objects Configuration Files

Deployment Source & Targets Multiple development repositories End users


Deployment to a New Site

MasterApplicationRepository

MasterApplicationDatabase

.df

.ado’s

appseqvals

staticobjects

New Site #© 2002, Progress Software Corporation


Deployment to a New Site …

.df

.ado’s

appseqvals

staticobjects

New Site #

NewApplicationRepository

NewApplicationDatabase

© 2002, Progress Software Corporation


Revision/Release to Existing Site

Repositories must have existing

unique site numbers


MasterApplicationDatabase

delta.df

.ado’sstatic

objects

ReceivingApplicationRepository

ReceivingApplicationDatabase

Revision/Release to Existing Site



Merging Development Tracks

Requires Master Application Repository Independent developers’ repositories

require unique site numbers Each repository may serve many

developers Such deployments require identifying

related groups of changes based on functionality


Merging Development Tracks

All repositories must have existing

unique site numbers


Developer ARepository

Developer BRepository

Developer CRepository

.ado’s

masterstatic

objects

staticobjects



Merging Development: Option 2


unique site numbers





.ado’s

masterstatic

objects

staticobjects

(POSSE technique)



Merging Development: Option 1


unique site numbers





.ado’s

masterstatic

objects

staticobjects



Deployment Tools

Dynamics Deployment Tools Deployment Dataset Control Dataset Export Dataset Import Deployment Destinations Deploy Static Objects Redundant ADO Listing


Demo


Deployment with Roundtable

Automated version control (check-out) from Dynamics Handled by triggers Using RTB API and normal checks for concurrent

check-outs etc. Version control of Data using XML

Automated creation and update of .ado (XML) files for Dynamic Objects

Enables version control and Configuration Management of any data as XML

XML integration allows for Export / Import between RTB and Dynamics repositories Useful for loading existing applications

Deployment of Data (DataSets) handled as part of Configuration Management


Deployment with Roundtable ...

Dynamics extensions to the normal deployment process in Roundtable Generates controlled and versioned deployment of

static & dynamic objects Source Code Deployments Allows for Application Partioning – Post Deployment


Deployment Configuration


RTB Deployment Processing

Use RTB supplied install programme _update.w

Possibly in combination with Dynamics Configuration Utility (DCU)


Deployment Partitioning

After compile of source deployment, build various partitions, .pl files and WebClient package


Demo

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Documents

dynamics tools deployment

posse http

dynamics entity control

support sales slide

partition application

existing site repositories

roundtable questions

ados static objects