How to copy sites?

How to copy sites?

• Gustavo Valdes

  Hi Alisson - We don't have the ability to directly copy sites in our first version. Can I ask how many branches you're trying to configure
  
  

• danrhee

  Alisson let me give you some background. This is a great straight forward question but I'm afraid that the answer is a bit complicated.
  
  The one line answer is "no we don't have copy". The reason is that there are complex relationships between the components of the system model. If we had the typical copy and paste there were going to be many configuration errors that you as a user had to resolve prior running the model.. For example if you copy and paste a branch site the association of users to Exchange stores is lost. This will create many validation errors that from our experience confuse users.
  
  So we have a different approach to this problem. The wizard is the mechanism that you should use to create many branches. The wizard will create homogeneous branches. In the model editor you can use the "multiple select" feature to pick the objects you would like to customize. For example you can select a number of clients from different branches to change them from Outlook cache to OWA. Or select multiple servers from different datacenters to change the hardware configuration and so on.
  
  We are looking as we move to next releases for a better and more standard solution (i.e. copy and paste but without the problem I mentioned above). If the workaround that I suggested is not going to work for you please provide more details on to what you are trying to accomplish.
  
  Thank you for your question.
  
  Stathis
  
  
  
• How to copy sites?