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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2009
Michael James Ott, Redmond, WA (US);
David Robert Shutt, Seattle, WA (US);
Hao Sun, Sammamish, WA (US);
Ramesh T. Bangalore, Redmond, WA (US);
Douglas William Wood, Issaquah, WA (US);
Michael James Ott, Redmond, WA (US);
David Robert Shutt, Seattle, WA (US);
Hao Sun, Sammamish, WA (US);
Ramesh T. Bangalore, Redmond, WA (US);
Douglas William Wood, Issaquah, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A hosted multi-tenant application is provided that permits a tenant to self-manage aspects of the operation of the application. A tenant may be permitted to upgrade the multi-tenant application on-demand or according to a schedule, to place the multi-tenant application into a read-only mode of operation, to create a shadow copy of their unshared organization database, to merge changes to a shadow copy into a master version of the unshared organization database, to create and revert to snapshots of an unshared organization database, and to perform other functions. A computing architecture that utilizes site-wide server computers and scale groups may be utilized to implement this functionality.