AppDeploy first launched in September of 1999. It was originally a collection of my own notes created while working as an administrator of Systems Management Server. There was not much available online about how to solve application deployment challenges and so AppDeploy was born.

If you care to see a history of AppDeploy and how it came to be, you may refer to part 1, part 2, and part 3 of a blog post series where I covered it in some detail.

AppDeploy would later become ITNinja and I would eventually venture off and create AppDetails as what exists as my current application management community.

Below you’ll find screen shots from 2000 to 2017 depicting its evolution…

Below you’ll find a reviewer’s guide from 2007 which talks through the history, features and benefits of the AppDeploy community…