Deployment Groups

You can create a deployment group based on department, team, or function. For example, you might have an administration group, a testing group, a production group, and so on.

Package deployment groups are particularly useful in large enterprises in which scheduling a package for deployment to several individual workstations is very time consuming. In these environments, you can deploy packages much more quickly when you use deployment groups.

A group can contain a subgroup (a group within a group). For example, you might have a group called Quality Assurance that is a subgroup of the larger Development group.

You can help the person who builds and schedules packages by creating easily identifiable names for deployment groups. For example, for a group that includes quality assurance specialists who are responsible for testing, name the group Testing, rather than Green Team.