How do you keep track of what you have released in production?

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Published on 2010-05-06T13:10:52Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 14:38 UTC
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Tipically a deploy in production does not involve just a mere source code update (build) but requires a lot of other important tasks like for example:

Db scripts (tables, query..)
Configuration files (differents from test\production)
Batch to schedule
Executables to move to the correct path
Etc. etc.

In our company we just send an email to a "Release email address" describing the tasks in order, which changeset need to be published (TFS), which SP need to be updated, db scripts and so on.

I believe there's not a magic tool that does these tasks automagically in order, rollback included; but probably there's something better than email that helps to keep track of releases in production.

Do you have any tools to suggest or practices to share?

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