Episode 117 - Planning Maintenance

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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