Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Zhengkai Kenneth Pan

David C James

Bruce Wayne Copeland

Rajagopalan Badri Narayanan

Michael Joseph Healy

Dustin Michael Ingalls

Jeffrey A Sutherland

Khuzaima Iqbal

Jeffry B Phillips

Donald Y Song

Joseph S Calabig

Galen Clyde Hunt

Robert M Fries

Robert Victor Welland

Bassam Tabbara

Ashvinkumar J Sanghvi

Aamer Hydrie

Rene Antonio Vega

Anders Bertil Vinberg

Raymond W McCollum

Geoffrey Hugh Outhred

Vij Rajarajan

John M Parchem

Efstathios Papaefstathiou

Rob M Mensching

Vitaly Voloshin

Gaurav Raghu Dhawan

John H Wilson

Mazhar Naveed Mohammed

Jonathan C Hardwick

Eric Joseph Winner

Anand Lakshminarayanan

Jeffrey A Woolsey

Edwin R Lassettre

Kevin D J Grealish

Doyle S Cronk

Paul Joseph Lyman Schottland

Martin Napier Dey

Daniel Nicholas Joseph Drew

A method, system, and architecture for managing computer systems is provided. A management system employs management objects (MOs) to provide administrators the ability to intuitively express the administrative intent in an information technology (IT) environment, and to act out the administrative intent based on the information gathered by the management system. Managed elements of an IT environment, such as, by way of example, hardware components, software applications, software updates, software distribution policies, configurations, settings, etc., may be expressed as MOs. Actions, such as, by way of example, detect, install/apply, remove, remediate, enumerate, etc., may be associated with the MOs. The management system manages the computer systems by deploying the appropriate MOs and their associated actions onto the computer systems, and performing the actions on the computer systems.

Object-based computer system management

In accordance with certain aspects of the model-based policy application, each of a plurality of policies is associated with appropriate parts of a model of a heterogeneous system. A deployment agent is invoked to apply each of the plurality of policies to components associated with the parts of the model. An identification of a change to one of the plurality of policies is received, and the deployment agent is also invoked to apply the changed policy to selected ones of the components associated with the parts of the model.

Model-based policy application

The disclosed arrangements and procedures replicate source files across networked resources. Specifically, a server receives a package update notification corresponding to a difference between a previous set of source files and one or more new sets of source files. Responsive to receiving the package update notification, a delta set of source files that correspond to the difference are identified. A set of source and/or distribution servers in an enterprise network that are configured for delta replication is determined. The identified delta set of source files is communicated to the determined source and/or distribution servers.

Delta replication of source files and packages across networked resources

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