QA Process for a ConfigMgr 2012 "Application Factory," Part 2

Admin & Std

Modify

Central Packaging Factory (aka CLEM)

The SharePoint site used to enter and track application lifecycle workflow activities for Contoso.

Admin

Modify

\\<Server1Name>\<AppRepositoryShare>

Central software repository, where application packaging team members place the installation source  for each packaged application. This location will also contain a “recipe.txt” file providing critical information for ConfigMgr administrators to configure the app for distribution.

Admin

Read

\\<Server2Name>\<AppRepositoryReplicatedShare>

This location is a replicated copy of the \\<Server1Name>\<AppRepositoryShare> described above.

Admin

Modify

\\<ShareRoot>\cm_packages

This is the application source location for applications created and configured in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager for deployment to end users.

Admin

Role-based

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager administrative console

QA administrators require specific role-based access control to:

1. Create & modify application
2. Create QA collections
3. Distribute applications
4. Deploy applications to QA collections
5. Move applications from QA to production folders

Std

Local admin

QA test client workstations and VMs

These workstations and VMs

Admin

Modify

Hyper-V management of virtual machines (VM) on the SA34CMTST01 server, running Hyper-V

Test machines must periodically be reset back to a baseline for testing purposes. This is easily accomplished in Hyper-V by utilizing snapshots and resettting the sytem to the baseline snapshot.

Admin

Modify

Create Active Directory Organizational Unt (OU) for QA and UAT processes.

RECOMMENDATION:
This OU will be used to create, modify and delete AD test groups that will be needed during the QA and UAT processes.

Open IE and open Central Packaging Factory (collaborate.contoso.com/sites/CLEM/Apps/SitePages/Home.aspx) à Apps – Packaging Factory à Phase 4 Packaging QA

1. Select an application from the list (for this example, we will use Snagit by TechSmith)
2. Click the edit icon next to the application, which opens a window with custom views.

à Applicaton Packaging Lifecycle window

1. Select, Testing

Application packaging lifecycle à Testing view

1. Scroll down until you find the field named, Testing Environment Package Location and click the hyperlink, which should open a window to the source file location (see next image)

1. If there is an error with the link, make the appropriate adjustments to the link if they are obvious, or return to packaging team to fix.

NOTE: If link does NOT connect; use ADMIN ACCT and log into CLEM. The issue is that you already authenticated with one acct  into the server.
Logging into the domain with another acct will grant access to the links (source files).

1. Navigate up one level to the parent, right-click the app source folder and hit Ctrl-C to copy the folder

1. Navigate to \\<ShareRoot>\CM_PACKAGES
   and paste the folder into the root, then open the folder that you just copied and copy the full UNC path (Ctrl-C) from the Explorer path box

Central Packaging Factory à Application packaging lifecycle à Testing view

1. Scroll down until you find the field named, Production Environment Package Location. Click the link icon

Edit Hyperlink window à Address: box

1. Clear the box content, and type “file://”, then Ctrl-V to paste the UNC (from the step above)
2. Type, Ctrl-A, then Ctrl-C to copy the contents of the “Address” box to memory and then paste it into the “Display this text: box
   Click, OK

Central Packaging Factory à Application packaging lifecycle à Testing view

1. Click, Save, or Submit icon or button to save the changes