A model office is a special member of the test satellites of a group, as it is representative of the satellites in its group. You typically have one model office for each version of the application that is used in the group. Because the model office is representative of your satellites, you can use it perform administrative tasks for the group. For example, you can use the model office to re-create a problem that occurs on a production satellite. When you re-create the problem on the model office, you can then use it to create and test a fix for the problem.
The administrative tasks that you can perform using the model office differ depending on whether you are in the development and acceptance-testing phase, the production-deployment phase, or the post-deployment phase of an application version for a group. The sections that follow describe the different ways in which you can use the model office in the different phases.
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