How To: Promote an Application Simulation to a Required Deployment in ConfigMgr 2012 SP1
From the archive (2013). Written for the tools of the time, so some details may be out of date.
Fellow MVP Greg Ramsey demo’d this tool at MMS and it made a lot of people in the room smile!
A simulated deployment is a great way to validate detection rules and deployment types prior to deploying an application. In my opinion, there’s one small task that’s missing - the ability to promote a simulation to production.
This post will demonstrate how to create a right-click action on the Monitoring->Deployments tab to promote a simulation to a required deployment.