Handing Off to the Users
After thoroughly testing each unit, connection, and function of your system (which you learn about in Chapter 4, “Testing Your Systems”), you're ready for the final step of the build-out process—the handoff. This is when you take your finished product, your shiny new servers, and hand them off to the people who will actually be using them. You hand off database servers, for example, to a DBA, so he or she can install database software and set up the databases. You might hand off Web servers to Web developers who will put up some Web content. Maybe you hand off things like DNS and mail servers to yourself, or to a separate operations team who will handle the day-to-day operations of those servers.
The key to a smooth transition ...
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