SharePoint Replication & Deployment Features - ROSS
Supporting MOSS 2007, WSS 3.0, and soon Microsoft SharePoint 2010®, ROSS delivers enterprise - strength replication and deployment capabilities with enhanced layers of control and governance. Functionalities include:
- Automation Controls - replace manual processes such as STSADM, backup/restore, and Content Deployment. With ROSS, organizations can use a combination of controls to schedule and kick-off jobs. These options allow for greater publishing control and accelerated release cycles.
- Solution Deployment - from one central console, organizations can deploy, upgrade, or retract multiple SharePoint solutions (.WSPs) in a defined sequence across Farms.
Value-Add Features include:
- Job Delegation: Accelerate release cycles and govern change by assigning pre-configured jobs to non-privileged users (developers) to submit on-demand through a user-friendly web-ui.
- Solution Rollback: To reverse deployment errors, restore to a previous point-in-time.
- Reporting: useful for peace-of-mind, trouble-shooting and auditing.
- Job Delegation: Accelerate release cycles and govern change by assigning pre-configured jobs to non-privileged users (developers) to submit on-demand through a user-friendly web-ui.
- Rollback – Enables Administrators to quickly "un-do" deployment errors.
- In the event of failure or unintentional publishing, ROSS's Rollback feature allows administrators to roll back any content, code, or configuration change to a previous state.
- However good one's QA or testing may be, the possibility for human error always exists; ROSS's rollback feature provides an added layer of tolerance to an organization's update process.
- Compared to simple file "archiving", ROSS provides the ability to specify a point in time or iteration of job(s), systematically reversing the effects of previous scheduled deployments.
- In the event of failure or unintentional publishing, ROSS's Rollback feature allows administrators to roll back any content, code, or configuration change to a previous state.
- Data Management - In addition to deployment, manage data within and across sites.
- Manage list to list replication within the same site.
- Split large lists or migrate content from previously defined conditions.
- Promote a site to a site collection with data and settings maintained.
- Manage list to list replication within the same site.
- Update Web Server Infrastructure - Add-on module enables replication/deployment of IIS settings, items in the 12-Hive, web.config, .NET GAC, dlls, etc.
- Incremental Updates – ROSS efficiently determines deltas, transferring only the differences between source and target environment(s). This intelligent approach to deployment saves time and bandwidth, dramatically shortening content release cycles.
- Guaranteed Delivery – ROSS's proprietary transfer engine accelerates and guarantees delivery of assets from source to target(s). Includes options for recoverability, compression, and security.
