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Scenario B
As a Project Administrator, you have been tasked with migrating all the users currently based in the Birmingham office and have been given the following constraints to complete the deployment.
- 3-week deployment (Monday to Friday with occasional hours on Saturday)
- 10 Migrations 09:00 – 10:00
- 10 Migrations 10:00 – 11:00
- 5 Migrations 11:00 – 12:00
- 10 Migrations 14:00 – 15:00
- 5 Migrations 16:00 – 17:00
- Saturdays should have 5 one-hour slots @ 10:00
- The second Monday is a non-working day
This article will describe how to model this within the Deployment Unit schedule config tab.
Create Deployment Unit
- Click ‘Deployment Units’ (1) from the vertical menu on the left
- Select ‘All Deployment Units’ (2)
- Click ‘New’ (3)
- Select ‘User Migrations’ (1) from the target module drop down menu
- Populate the 'deployment unit name and Location' (2)
- Click on ‘New’ (3) to create the new deployment unit
- The new deployment unit should now be visible on the grid
Configure Deployment Unit
- Double click on the new deployment unit (Birmingham) on the grid to open the details panel
- Define the deployment unit’s 'Start date and End date' (1). This should be over a 3-week period. The screenshot below shows it starts at 9:00 hrs on the 14/09/20 and finishes on Friday 02/10/2020 at 18:00 hrs
- Click on ‘Save Deployment Unit’ (2)
- Click on ‘Schedule Config’ (1) tab
By default a Deployment unit will inherit its available sessions from the globally defined schedule. It is possible to override this global schedule.- Click on the ‘Toggle’ (2) to switch from Global Slots to Local Slots
- Within the Switch Global/Local Schedule, ensure the checkbox ‘Yes, I’m sure’ (3) is ticked
- Click on ‘Switch’ (4) to confirm the changes
- Next, we need to configure the schedule based on the constraints from earlier:
- 3-week deployment (Monday to Friday with occasional hours on Saturday)
- 10 Migrations 09:00 – 10:00
- 10 Migrations 10:00 – 11:00
- 5 Migrations 11:00 – 12:00
- 10 Migrations 14:00 – 15:00
- 5 Migrations 16:00 – 17:00
- Saturdays should have 5 one-hour slots @ 10:00
- The second Monday is a non-working day
- Click on ‘Click here to add new item’ (1)
- Define the Start time, End time, Migration Slots and the days of the week (2)
- During the 3 weeks deployment, we have 5 one hour slots on Saturday 19th and 26th. This has been defined by entering the valid from/to dates and also selecting just Saturday (3)
- Click ‘Save Changes’ (4) to commit the changes
- We also understand that during the 3-week period, the second Monday is a non-working day, which according to the calendar is the 28/09/2020. This needs to be defined within the Suspended days section.
- Click on ‘Click here to add new item’ (1)
- Populate the date and the corresponding note (2)
- Click ‘Save Changes’ (3) to commit the changes
- Once done, you should be able to see the number of Slots available, Blocked slots, Slots used and Free slots at the bottom of the Slot Utilisation grid.
- This completes the process of configuring the deployment unit based on the constraints given
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