Published: April 25, 2008

The Deploy SMF describes how to release a stable solution into the production environment. This SMF specifically describes how to stabilize an IT service solution in the production environment and transfer responsibility for the solution from the project team to the Operations and Support teams.

The major deployment processes described by the Deploy SMF are:

• Deploy core IT service solution components.
• Deploy sites.
• Stabilize deployment.
• Review the Deployment Complete Milestone.

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