Server Groups aka Device Availability Groups and MS finally gave it its new name: Orchestration Groups

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Server Groups aka Device Availability Groups - and MS finally gave it its new name: Orchestration Groups

28 september 2019


The feature was introduced way back in technical preview 1602 and and is still only available as a pre-release.

At MMS 2019 the product group introduced the new name and look for server groups and it seem to be Device Availability Group.
the feature has been recoded and will now have its own node in the console.

(sorry for the pic quality, it was screen captured during the session at MMS)




It was not 100 % clear what kind of deployments the feature will support, so I asked @Djammmer on twitter if they will support updates, applications and packages.


It is a good start, but it will be required with support for all deployment types, otherwise it will be quite difficult to get the full benefit for device availability groups

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