Windows Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

10-1: Create a Change Control Workflow

Solution overview

Type of solution	Guidance
Features and tools	Group Policy objects, Active Directory groups
Solution summary	Understand the process of change management, beginning with the realization that a change is necessary and continuing through the design, testing, and deployment of that change.
Benefits	Build a change control framework that includes each component of the change management process.

Introduction

To begin our exploration of change, configuration, and policies, I'd like to step you through the change management process, from the moment that someone identifies a change is required or valuable, through the evaluation and piloting of the change, to the widespread deployment of that change. Although ...