Solutions
The nature of the SharePoint Products and Technologies platform causes files to be placed in a variety of locations. Definitions and features are copied to a folder on the WFE servers; modules and list instances are created in the content database; Web configuration files in the wwwroot folders are updated; and custom locations are used for additional files created by developers. To address this problem, the platform has a unified infrastructure for deploying components. This infrastructure uses solution files, which are compressed cabinets called CAB files.
The deployment of development artifacts to test or production servers must be performed using the solution framework. If you attempt to do so outside of this framework, service outages ...
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