Deploying Updates to Your Application

When you need to make changes to a distributed application, you will get the changes out to users by updating the setup package and redeploying the parts of the setup package that have changed. There are two major techniques for deploying updates:

• Automatic redeployment. For this option to work best, you should save the scripts for both the packaging and the deployment. Just rerun the packaging and deployment scripts.

• Manual redeployment. You can choose one of two levels of automation for manual redeployment:
  
  • Rerun Package and Deployment Wizard for packaging, and then for deployment.
  
  • Manually re-create one or more of the setup package elements, and then manually deploy it (usually by copying one or more files).