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Nikhil Vaghela
Nikhil Vaghela

Reputation: 930

How do i deploy UAT and Development SharePoint solution on the same server?

I am working on a SharePoint 2010 Server and i have following items in my SharePoint solution

Lets say this solutions is deployed to http://[SharePoint201Server]:[PortNumber-x]/

This is the only server i have (No extra server for UAT), and what ever has been done so far needs to be given for user acceptance testing (UAT). I may create one more site at http://[SharePoint201Server]:[PortNumber-y]/ for it.

My problme is that how do i maintain two copies of my source code ? I will have to continue development on the same set of source code for next UAT release. I simply can not create simple copies of the source code as it will have same Assembly name and feature id, etc..As if i do so, any changes on under Development source code would affect UAT assemblies.

One thing i can do is to create seperate projects for UAT and Development with different Features and Assembly names, but is not that too much of an unneccesory work ?

What can be the best approach in such situation ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2019

Answers (2)

Ashutosh Singh-MVP SharePoint
Ashutosh Singh-MVP SharePoint

Reputation: 5283

i would suggest use sand boxed solution and create two site collection one for UAT and other for production. deploy your solutions individually on each sandbox solution. Sandbox solutions are deployed in bin not in GAC so you would not be having trouble code duplication

Upvotes: 2

Madhur Ahuja
Madhur Ahuja

Reputation: 22701

There is no best approach for this. You need to have different environments for development and UAT.

If the availability of machine is limitation, One possible solution is to have VM environment of the same machine for development and actual environment for UAT.

That obviously requires sophisticated hardware configuration to run both simultaneously.

Upvotes: 2

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