On certain occasions, it's perfectly normal to have someone sitting in front of the server, clicking buttons, exporting and importing objects across MCMS databases. However, it wouldn't be productive to do that when you have regular incremental updates to the site.
MCMS provides an option to create scripts for incremental updates to allow automatic deployment using the Site Deployment API (SDAPI). With the SDAPI, we can write scripts that automate the process of exporting objects from the source server and importing them on the destination server.
The SDAPI is packaged as a COM-based application programming interface. There are two sets of objects in the SDAPI:
Objects that support server-side site deployment. Scripts built on this API are executed on the source MCMS server for exports and destination MCMS server for imports. The required library file is located at:
<install
directory>\server\bin\NRSiteDeployServer.dll
.Objects that...