Deploy to production

Do we have any best practices around deploying to Production environment? I looked at the Setup of Prod Environment document shipped with our product, but that doesn’t tell you anything specific on what you should consider for production deploy.

I’m specifically looking at the following things for CDC:

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[li]Considering there will be several hundred users using Percussion in production, when is a good time to deploy changes to Prod? [/li][li]Is there a way to block users from accessing Percussion (content explorer) during a deploy?[/li][/ul]
I’m looking for recommendation from those who’ve done production deployments and how they’ve accomplished this.
I think this information would greatly benefit everyone within PSO.

Attached is the summary of a meeting held 8/5/11 where this was discussed. Thanks Ankit for taking notes.

Deploy_To_Production.doc (20.5 KB)