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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.