Welcome to Episode 117 Main Topic * Preparing for Maintenance + How do you make sure a new deployment is ready for prime time? - Testing

• How do you plan a maintenance window?
• Do you have pre-set maintenance windows?
• What is considered “down time” for your business?

• Or maybe just what isnt prime time?

• How do you prepare your team for a go-live?

• Is your new deployment well defined?
• Documentation
• Architecture diagrams?

• Can another admin jump in using your docs and troubleshoot a problem?

• Has it passed whatever security checks your business has?

• What about vendor involvement?

• How do you spend the first week (or weeks?) after go-live?

• Increased monitoring
• How do you “operationalize”?

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