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Adam
Asked: 2010-06-11 08:43:03 +0800 CST

Deploying Sharepoint Features in a Load Balanced Environment

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Last night we deployed a new set of Sharepoint features to a load balanced environment. For some reason the new features are on 1 box but are not showing in the sharepoint sites on the others.

We have 4 servers and we deployed to them by pulling 1 server out of rotation, stopping the app pool and deploying our new code and the new features. Then we would fire it back up and add it to the rotation. For the remaining servers we would only remove the server from rotation, stop the app pool, and deploy the code, NOT the features, then fire it back up and add it to the rotation.

Any thoughts on why the features are not showing up on the other servers? Also, any thoughts on forcing the features to show up?

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Best Answer

    If you are not using a solution package you have to do everything manually that building a WSP file and using stsadm to deploy does. Aside from the myriad of things that could go wrong manually, I suspect that you did not copy the features into the template\features folders on the other servers 12 hive.

    From an admin perspective there is no way I would let a developer deploy code to a production server like this.

    1. this causes an outage per server
    2. way too manual (yes, even I make the occasional mistake)
    3. Rollback means doing a restore (depending)
    4. upgrades mean doing it all over again (because we know that the first release is almost never the last)

    All of these issues are avoided using a solution file.

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