Deployment of configuration changes from test to production

[viveshar]

Currently, if changes are made in the Concur Expense configuration in the Concur test instance, then the only way to deploy those changes in production is to make the same changes directly in the production instance. Has anybody found a way through which the changes can be deployed through some tool/related product so that the team does not have to spend the same time in making changes in production as well?

[KevinD]

@viveshar once your production site has been created, there is not an option to copy configuration changes from Test to Production. You have to configure directly in your production site. 

We recommend using the Test User functionality to test configuration changes. That way you only configure it once in Production and make those changes apply only to test users. Once it tested and is working correctly, apply those changes to your actual employees. 

[jmr101]

When we were making major changes to our configuration we created a new group, policy, etc. and effectively built the new config from scratch. Then when we were ready to go live we mass-moved all our users from the existing group/policy to the new one.

It's probably overkill unless you're making major changes, but there are certain things that are hard to do with test users without affecting normal users as well.

Hope that helps,

James