Patent ID: 7802247

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of restoring a software application to a baseline state on multiple computing systems, comprising: installing said software application on a first computing system, said installing causing directories to be created on said first computing system and files to be placed in said directories, said directories including configuration directories and said files including configuration files; searching said configuration directories and said configuration files for a first reference specific to said first computing system; and replacing said first reference to said first computing system in said configuration directories and said configuration files with a generic reference creating a baseline template of said software application from said configuration directories and said configuration files, said baseline template comprising said configuration directories and said configuration files for said software application; uploading said baseline template of said software application to a second computing system; processing said baseline template to retrieve said configuration directories and said configuration files for said software application onto said second computing system; searching said configuration directories and said configuration files for said generic reference; and replacing said generic reference with a second reference specific to said second computing system.