How do you handle developer access to windows servers?

Question

When it comes to code launches how do you handle developer access to the server? Do they have RDP access to the machines to deploy code and make changes? Are they only given ftps access to the servers docroots and any .NET configuration changes are handled by the sysadmins? Do the developers even have access to the production docrooots for deployment or do the sysadmins handle any code launches to the live servers?

Answer 1

The best setups I have worked with has a 3 level hierarchy:

• DEV - Developers have complete access to these server(s).
• STAGE - This is for developers and QA.
• LIVE - Only sysadmins and build engineers touch these.

This will also depend on the company's budget and mindset.

Answer 2

It depends, at our workplace the developers do everything. No systemadministrator says anything (since i am the systemadmin and a developer)

Bad part though is, lots of testing is occuring on the live enviroment which i am against and trying to stop but no luck yet.

My last workplace it was handle also by developers but in stages, lots of stages before going live.