The Essential Guide to Microsoft Teams End-User Engagement

Creating a deployment slot is very easy and, as always, there are many ways to do it. You can use the Azure Portal, Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell and the Azure Management API. I’ll show you how to do it using the Azure Portal. In the Azure Portal, navigate to your App Service - let’s say it’s a Web App - and click the deployment slots menu. Azure Functions deployment slots allow your function app to run different instances called 'slots'. Slots are different environments exposed via a publicly available endpoint. One app instance is always mapped to the production slot, and you can swap instances assigned to a slot on demand.

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We take you through 10 best practices, considerations, and suggestions that can enrich your Microsoft Teams deployment and ensure both end-user adoption and engagement.

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Every Azure Website (recently renamed App Service) comes with a default deployment slot – production. Did you know that you can create up to 4 additional deployment slots to be used for dev, test, QA, or staging?
Deployment slots are actually live web apps with their own hostnames. Web app content and configurations elements can be swapped between two deployment slots. Benefits of deployment slots include:

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Deployment Slots in Azure Websites is a way to minimize the impact of broken deployments. Deployment Slots provide you wide variety of deployment workflows. When you create an Azure Website, you are directly provisioned the production slot.

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  • You can validate web app changes in a staging deployment slot before swapping it with the production slot.
  • Deploying a web app to a slot first and swapping it into production ensures that all instances of the slot are warmed up before being swapped into production. This eliminates downtime when you deploy your web app. The traffic redirection is seamless, and no requests are dropped as a result of swap operations.
  • After a swap, the slot with previously staged web app now has the previous production web app. If the changes swapped into the production slot are not as you expected, you can perform the same swap immediately to get your “last known good site” back.

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