Deactivate/Reactivate Users When Performing Deployment to Production

Question

Im looking into the ability to deactivate/reactivate users when performing a deploy to production to prevent users from using the system mid way through a deployment. I tried the Personalization Plugin and created a group which I passed to the Deactivate Users smart service which worked fine. The problem is that by deactivating these users, they are removed from the group and I am unable to reactivate the users I deactivated earlier without having to manually reactivate each one. Is there a better solution for locking users out of the system for a production deploy? 
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Amitkumar · Accepted Answer

You can deny the access to the user groups when production deployment or maintenance is in progress. This can be simply done by changing the security on the application. When production deployment or maintenance is completed, you can restore viewer access to user groups.