Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

John Keith Bankston

Corey Roussel

Ziyi Wang

Michael H Ammerlaan

Kshamta Jerath

Joel M Fillmore

Kimon Tsinteris

William R Taylor

Suresh Tharamal

Arulseelan Thiruppathi

William David Taylor

Corey Michael Roussel

Corey M Roussel

Techniques to perform gradual upgrades are described. An apparatus may include a database with a data set for a first version of an application program, and a computing device to couple to the database. The computing device may have a processor and memory, with the memory to store a first version of an application program, an installer program, and a gradual update engine. The processor may execute the installer program to install a second version of the application program, and said gradual update engine to convert the data set to a data schema used by the second version one data segment at a time. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to perform gradual upgrades

A system and method is provided that centrally stores in a server farm custom jobs defined by developers or administrators of the server farm. The system and method enables the server farm to automatically distribute the jobs to servers in the server farm and to execute the jobs according to parameters defined for the jobs.

Extensible and distributed job execution service in a server farm

An extensible and automatically replicating server farm configuration management infrastructure is provided. A centralized configuration database stores all configuration data for the server farm. New configuration data can be added to the configuration database by extending a configuration object model without knowing or changing the schema of the configuration database. A synchronization mechanism is provided for each server in the server farm to automatically keep configuration data in the server farm synchronized across multiple servers in the server farm.

Extensible and automatically replicating server farm configuration management infrastructure

A system and method is provided that allows solutions for a server farm to be submitted to a centralized location in the server farm. The submitted solutions can be selected and scheduled for automatic deployment for all servers in the server farm. Deployed solutions can be retracted from the servers in the server farm. A damaged server or a new server in the server farm can be synchronized to have the same solutions that have been deployed across the server farm.

Solution deployment in a server farm

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