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How to Choose Changes to Deploy

 

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 SP1 - Service Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager, System Center 2012 - Service Manager

In System Center 2012 – Service Manager, the release manager selects approved changes for release by performing the following procedure. Using this process, the release manager links a manual activity in the release record to a dependent activity in a change request and then completes the manual activity in the release record. As a result, this process marks the dependent activity in the change request as completed.

The procedure to create a dependent activity to add it to a change request should already be completed before you proceed. For more information about adding dependent activities to change request, see How to Add Dependent Activities to a Change Request for Release Records.

To choose changes to deploy

  1. In the Service Manager console, open the Work Items workspace, in the Work Items pane, expand Release Management, and then select Release Management.

  2. In the Work Items pane, select a view under Release Management that displays a release record that comprises changes that are ready for deployment, and then double-click the release record.

  3. Click the Activities tab.

  4. In the list that appears, right-click a manual activity to link a change request dependent activity to, and then select Link to Change Request Activity.

  5. In the Select Change Request Activity dialog box, select the change request to link to, expand it, and then select one or more dependent activities, and then click OK twice.

    Tip


    When you have linked the activity, the selected activity shows a linking indicator that resembles a chain icon. The tooltip for the selected activity shows IDs for the linked change request dependent activities.

  6. Navigate to Activity Management, expand Manual Activities, and then select In-Progress Activities.

  7. Select the manual activity and then in the Tasks list click Mark as Completed.

  8. Navigate to Change Management, expand All Change Requests, and then open the change request that is linked to the release record.

  9. Click the Activities tab and notice that the dependent activity is now marked Completed.

See Also

Managing Release Records in System Center 2012 - Service Manager
How to Add Dependent Activities to a Change Request for Release Records