No-touch deployment is enabled by enhanced tools such as Windows Installer services and by new tools such as Fusion. Fusion supports side-by-side versioning for DLLs, while its counterpart , Manifest, tells you exactly which DLLs are required. Windows Installer can contain Fusion manifests and can now describe the application that runs side by side, making it easier to deploy reliable applications.
Additional tools that can shorten the deployment process and ensure greater accuracy include Xcopy deployment and IIS edit while running.
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) does in hours what formerly took days, using new tools in Visual Studio .NET. Reliability is improved through command-line tools that are freely available for download via the Internet. Applications and services can easily issue events and define variables .
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