Change Standard¶
Purpose¶
Every meaningful infrastructure change should be traceable.
Required fields¶
- Change title
- Date
- Owner
- Reason
- Scope
- Risk
- Implementation steps
- Validation steps
- Rollback plan
- Result
Change types¶
| Type | Example |
|---|---|
| Standard | Create a new user |
| Normal | Deploy a new server |
| Emergency | Restore failed domain controller |
| Maintenance | Patch servers |
Minimum rule¶
If a change can break authentication, networking, DNS, DHCP, certificates or backups, document it before implementation.