Windows Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

10-7: Testing, Piloting, Validating, and Migrating Policy Settings

Solution overview

Type of solution	Guidance
Features and tools	Security group filtering, resultant set of policy modeling and reporting
Solution summary	Implement effective processes for testing a change in the lab, moving that change into the production environment for a limited pilot, and migrating the change to a widespread production deployment.
Benefits	Increased confidence and manageability of change; full rollback capability.

Introduction

In 10-1: Create a Change Control Workflow, I stepped you through the phases of change management. However, I touched only briefly on the critical phases of conducting a pilot test of a change and migrating the change to a widespread deployment. In ...