Understanding deployments or update sets
An update can be considered as a customized package of development items; you know by now that any Service-Now customer gets three instances or environments: One production and two non production. So, all new requirement or development work is done on the development instances, and all end-user testing is done on the testing environment. Once everyone is happy, the code is deployed in the production environment, but remember that only configuration can be captured in the update set, not data. To read more about update sets, click on http://wiki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=Using_Update_Sets#gsc.tab=0.
Getting ready
To step through this recipe, you should have an active Service-Now instance, valid credentials, and an admin role.
How to do it...
Open any standard web browser.
Type the Service-Now instance web address (
https://{instance_name}.service-now.com) provided by your company in the address bar. Now, enter your credentials in respective fields.Type...
