I am trying to make a SECURED deploy using this command line - 
Package.deploy.cmd /y /M:https://XXXXXX:8172/MSDeploy.axd /U:"UserName" /p:"Password" /a:basic

But when I execute this, I get an error ERROR_CERTIFICATE_VALIDATION_FAILED

This error is resolved when below command line is used - 
Package.deploy.cmd /y /M:https://XXXXXX:8172/MSDeploy.axd /U:"UserName" /p:"Password" /a:basic -AllowUntrusted -verbose 

I DONT want to use allowUntrusted certificates, userName and Password, as it can be seen in my TFS logs. I want to pass appropriate certificates in above command line to make a secured deploy. Also, need to avoid providing User/Pass

Any help would be of great help !!!

After 1001 publish to my server my site now stays in AppOffline mode. Mean It shows content from App_Offline.htm  when accessing any page

Update seems like appoffile feature of webdeploy is in leaving App_Offline.htm in root of my app so iis show its content. So in my case App_Offline.htm was not deleted after deploy is happened for some reason.

Here is log from  webdeploy

Configuring the following project for use with IIS: 'm:\TEMP\PublishTemp\PROJECTNAME'
Updating web.config at 'm:\TEMP\PublishTemp\PROJECTNAME\web.config'
Configuring project completed successfully
publish: Published to m:\TEMP\PublishTemp\PROJECTNAME
Published 1/1 projects successfully
Publishing with publish method [MSDeploy]
Executing command ["C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3\msdeploy.exe" -source:manifest='m:\TEMP\PublishTemp\obj\PROGECTNAME\SourceManifest.xml' -dest:manifest='m:\TEMP\PublishTemp\obj\PROJECTNAME\DestinationManifest.xml',ComputerName='https://PROJECTNAME:8172/msdeploy.axd?site=PROJECTNAME',UserName='PROJECTNAME',Password='PROJECTNAME',IncludeAcls='False',AuthType='Basic' -verb:sync -enablerule:AppOffline -enableRule:DoNotDeleteRule -retryAttempts:20 -allowUntrusted]
Info: Using ID 'PROJECTNAME' for connections to the remote server.
Info: Using ID 'PROJECTNAME' for connections to the remote server.
Info: Updating file (PROJECTNAME\appsettings.Production.json).
Info: Updating file (PROJECTNAME\PROJECTNAME.deps.json).
Info: Updating file (PROJECTNAME\PROJECTNAME.dll).
Info: Updating file (PROJECTNAME\PROJECTNAME.pdb).
Info: Updating file (PROJECTNAME\PROJECTNAME.runtimeconfig.json).
Info: Updating file (PROJECTNAME\Views\Clients\Index.cshtml).
Info: Updating file (PROJECTNAME\web.config).
Info: Updating file (PROJECTNAME\wwwroot\css\site.css).
Total changes: 8 (0 added, 0 deleted, 8 updated, 0 parameters changed, 4337361 bytes copied)

Web App was published successfully http://PROJECTNAME/
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
========== Publish: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========

When I migrate sites from Server 2003 to 2012 R2, does web deploy also migrate the ODBC connection settings or does have to be re-configured after the migration? If it doesn't, is there any easy way to get this accomplished?

I have a parameter that I wish to enable as a drop down list. When I add the following to the parameters.xml file within a Web Deployment Tool package a drop down list appears:

  <parameter name="SelectList" description="Select the value.">
    <parameterValidation type="Enumeration" validationString="value1,value2" />
    <parameterEntry kind="TextFile" scope="\\textfile.config$" match="PlaceHolderForSelectList" />
  </parameter>

 When this parameter is added to the Web Publishing Pipeline used by Visual Studio 2010 to create the package the following appears in the paramaters.xml file:

   <parameter name="SelectList" description="Select the value." defaultValue="">
    <parameterEntry kind="TextFile" scope="\\textfile.config$" match="PlaceHolderForSelectList" />
  </parameter>

 Notice that the <parameterValidation> element is not added.

The MsDeployDeclareParameters only seems to support the following:

<MsDeployDeclareParameters Include="ParameterName">

     <Kind></Kind>

     <Scope></Scope>

     <Match></Match>

     <Description></Description>

     <DefaultValue></DefaultValue>

     <Tags></Tags>

</MsDeployDeclareParameters>

So is there any way to add the parameterValidation entries?

Hi All!

I am attempting to build and deploy an IIS application from Server 2012 R2 to a machine running 2008R2 and it is failing with the following error:

[VSMSDeploy] C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets(4255, 5): Web deployment task failed. (Could not complete the request to remote agent URL 'https://remoteserver:8172/MsDeploy.axd?site=mysite'.)
This error indicates that you cannot connect to the server. Make sure the service URL is correct, firewall and network settings on this computer and on the server computer are configured properly, and the appropriate services have been started on the server.
Error details:
Could not complete the request to remote agent URL 'https://remoteserver:8172/MsDeploy.axd?site=mysite'.
The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.
Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.
An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

This deploy works fine from a 2008R2 build server to a 2008R2 remote server, and from a 2012R2 build server to a 2012R2 remote server. I'm guessing that it's due to a newer version of IIS trying to deploy to an older version, but I can't seem to find a work around. Any insight?

Thanks!

First off, let me know if I could present this a little clearer.

I am setting up an environment to allow developers to sync web development  from one stage/qa server to two identical production servers.  Our current environment uses a powershell script and msdeploy.  It is spotty at best.  Also the infrastructure is old and needs replacement.  I copied the script from our current environment to the new one.  When I run the current script on the new machines I get a number of errors.  I have eliminated most of them.  I still get the following

Beginning sync process on acp-web01....
Invoke-Expression : At line:1 char:61
+ 'C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3\msdeploy.exe' -verb:sync
-source:a ...
+                                                             ~~~~~
Unexpected token '-verb' in expression or statement.
At line:1 char:66
+ 'C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3\msdeploy.exe' -verb:sync
-source:a ...
+                                                                  ~~~~~
Unexpected token ':sync' in expression or statement.
At D:\srvutil\sync-ProductionSites.ps1:132 char:2
+     Invoke-Expression $Exec
+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ParserError: (:) [Invoke-Expression], ParseExcep
   tion
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnexpectedToken,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.In
   vokeExpressionCommand

This is the part of the script  that I think is generating the error:

Write-Host "`nBeginning sync process on $Server...." -Foregroundcolor Yellow
 $CommandLine="C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3\msdeploy.exe"
 $Params="`-verb`:sync `-source`:apphostconfig=$siteName `-dest`:apphostconfig=$siteName`,computername=$Server `–enablelink`:apppool > C`:`\SrvUtil`\$Server`.log"
 $Exec = "'$CommandLine' $params"
 
 # Create Remote PowerShell session on $Server
 $serverSession = New-PSSession -ComputerName $server
 
 # Execute remote AppPool shutdown
 Invoke-Command -Session $serverSession -ScriptBlock $sbStopAppPool -ArgumentList $siteName
 
 # Push Site
 Invoke-Expression $Exec

The error is identical on both destination servers

When the Invoke expression runs the error appears.  I can approach this in 2 basic ways; one is to fix what I have the other is to scrap it all and start fresh with a new approach.  I am open to either

Thanks for the help

Mike

I am trying to build web deployment packages which include a parameter for "IIS Web Application Pool Name" in the Project.SetParameters.xml file. I would like to do this using MSBuild; I use Jenkins for CI/CD with MSDeploy/Powershell for deployment, and will not be building, packaging or publishing through Visual Studio.

I would also like to leverage IIS Express for this, and not require 'regular IIS' to be installed on my build machine. So, I have selected the 'Use IIS Express' option in my projects.

Has anyone done this successfully? Is there a trick to making it work?

The problem I am running into is that as soon as I add "/p:IncludeIisSettings=True /p:IncludeAppPool=True" to my msbuild command, I get failures like the following on my build machines:

"B:\workspace\job\Project\Project.vbproj" (Rebuild target) (3) ->
(PackageUsingManifest target) ->
  C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets(3914,5): msdeploy error ERROR_EXCEPTION_WHILE_CREATING_OBJECT: Web deployment task failed. (Object of type 'manifest' and path 'manifest xml hidden' cannot be created.  Learn more at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_EXCEPTION_WHILE_CREATING_OBJECT.) [B:\workspace\job\Project\Project.vbproj]

I have followed the link and read the page. It doesn't say anything helpful regarding this particular error. I have observed this on every build machine I've tried, on Windows 2012, R2, and 2016, with either Visual Studio 2013 or 2015 installed, regardless of patch level (including 'the latest'). It occurs via Jenkins, and if I log in as myself to execute the same commands.

The strange thing is that my project builds correctly on my development system, i.e. I can run the exact same build commands against the same code and everything works. So, this seems to be an environmental issue, but I am having a very hard time narrowing down what it could be.

One thing I have noticed is that the build output is slightly different with respect to the package target when building on my dev workstation vs. the build machine, and on the build machine when I pass "/p:IncludeIisSettings=true" vs. not.

Dev workstation:

Package:
  Invoking Web Deploy to generate the package with the following settings:$(LocalIisVersion) is 10$(DestinationIisVersion) is 10$(UseIis) is True$(IisUrl) is http://localhost:55011/$(IncludeIisSettings) is true$(_DeploymentUseIis) is True$(DestinationUseIis) is True$(IisUrl_SiteID) is 77$(IisUrl_SiteFriendlyName) is Project$(IisUrl_SiteRelativePath) is /$(IisServer_IisAppPoolName) is Clr4IntegratedAppPool$(_Destination_IisServer_IisAppPoolName) is ASP.NET v4.0

Build machine with /p:IncludeIisSettings=false:

Package:
  Invoking Web Deploy to generate the package with the following settings:$(LocalIisVersion) is 10$(DestinationIisVersion) is 10$(UseIis) is True$(IisUrl) is http://localhost:55011/$(IncludeIisSettings) is false$(_DeploymentUseIis) is False$(DestinationUseIis) is False

And curiously, build machine with /p:IncludeIisSettings=true:

Package:
  Invoking Web Deploy to generate the package with the following settings:$(LocalIisVersion) is 7$(DestinationIisVersion) is 7$(UseIis) is True$(IisUrl) is http://localhost:55011/$(IncludeIisSettings) is True$(_DeploymentUseIis) is True$(DestinationUseIis) is True$(IisUrl_SiteRelativePath) is /

What is bothering me is that the LocalIisVersion is being set to 7 on the build machine with "/p:IncludeIisSettings=true". I have seen this, as stated above, on all of my build machines.

If I run the build with /filelogger /flp:Verbosity=Diagnostic, I see that e.g. LocalIisVersion is set multiple times. The first time it's set correctly, via registry lookup in the GetProjectWebProperties target in Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Targets. The second time is incorrect, indirectly via the MapUriToIisWebServer task (just a few lines down) setting the IisServer_IisMajorVersion output property to 7. This latter task is also not setting other missing items like IisUrl_SiteID, _FriendlyName, etc.

Looking online for information about MapUriToIisWebServer yields virtually nothing. As far as I can tell, it's not documented anywhere, so it's unclear what it should be doing or how it might fail. Does anyone have more information about this task?

FWIW, I have replicated the error on a build machine with the exact same version of Visual Studio, and maybe more importantly the exact same version of the Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.dll containing the MSBuild tasks used during the build.

I've spent the better part of 2 days trying to figure this out, and at this point I've basically given up and will either do the AppPool config by hand, or see if I can script it with Powershell. This seems like a failure though because clearly it should be possible to specify which AppPool to use as a parameter in the SetParameter file.

Hello guys, 

Please help migrate my website https://wonder-glass.ca/ to a new hosting. 

How can I do it?

Thank you

Hello

I have installed Web Deploy 3.6 on Server 2012 R2 via Web Platform Installer 5.0; however when I start IIS Manager and right-click on the server Deploy does not appear in the list of options?

I have tried repairing Web Deploy which has made no difference.

Suggestions to troubleshoot?

Thanks

Vaughan

Hello,

I am using MS Deploy 3.5 to migrate Web sites from an IIS7 server

I have exported the configuration without issue.

When I try to import the configuration on the Server 2012 R2 host I receive an error message that .NET 2.0 is not installed.

However in Features .NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0) is installed

Suggestions?

Thanks

Vaughan

i have an OLD 2003 server running iis.  i have a ton of websites on it.  i want to get rid of that box.  i want to copy all the data to my new 2012 box.  i was looking at msdeploy.  never used it before.  does this bring over user names and passwords too? does it leave the original 2003 as is in case something errors so i can go back to it if i need to?  they are both standalone workgroup servers so no AD for the accounts.

thank you

Hi,

i used msdeploy to sync Servers. Here are my Code:

add-pssnapin wdeploysnapin3.0

#Create settings
New-WDPublishSettings -ComputerName SERVER01.lwn.liebherr.i -AgentType MSDepSvc -FileName C:\Powershell\WebDeploy\Settings\SERVER01.publishsettings

New-WDPublishSettings -ComputerName SERVER02.lwn.liebherr.i -AgentType MSDepSvc -FileName C:\Powershell\WebDeploy\Settings\SERVER02.publishsettings -UserID DOMAIN\USERXY -Password yyyy

#Sync
Sync-WDServer -SourcePublishSettings C:\Powershell\WebDeploy\Settings\SERVER01.publishSettings -DestinationPublishSettings C:\Powershell\WebDeploy\Settings\SERVER02.publishSettings

Now i want to exclude 1 Folder for sync. What is the best way to do this?

Thanks for your help!

Is there a max to the number of sites web deploy with extract in a package?  I have approx 250 sites I need to migrate to a new server, but the web deploy package is missing several of them.  What could the reason be?

Thanks.

I realize that this error should be among the most straight-forward to diagnose, but I've gone through the possible causes and everything checks out.

I am attempting to do a Web Deploy of an ASP.NET Core site from VS 2017 to WinServ 2012R2 (on AWS) IIS 8.5.

The first resolution is to make sure the Web Management Service is running on the remote machine, it is:

Windows PowerShell
Copyright (C) 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

PS C:\Users\Administrator> net start msdepsvc
The requested service has already been started.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2182.

The next resolution is to make sure a firewall is not interfering.  The target server is an AWS instance and I have verify that my security group is allowing "All Traffic" from my workstation's IP.

So I'm at a bit of a lose as to why this isn't deploying.

Hi,

I am working on Windows 7 Enterprise OS with IIS 7 installed. When I open IIS, I do not see Manage User icon. I tried installing the additional feature "IIS Management Service" by checking its tick box in Control Panel-> Programs & Features -> Turn Windows features on or off, but it is not getting installed, throws error "An error occurred. Not all of the features were successfully changed.".  I am having admin rights on this PC.

Please let me know how can I fix this.

Regards,

YKK

I have tried resolution 2 but that did not work. When I try resolution 1 I get a Unrecognized argument error.. I am certain I am not formatting the command correctly and would appreciate any assistance. My source server is named HABSERVER and my destination server is named NC-USS-APP1. I was able to successfully create a package using the Web Tools but I can't bring that package into my new server.

.\msdeploy.exe verb:sync -Source:package=f:\iso\oldweb.zip,machineconfig32.netfxversion=2,machineconfig64.netfxversion=2,rootwebconfig32.netfxversion=2,rootwebconfig64.netfxversion=2 -dest:webserver,machineconfig32.netfxversion=2,machineconfig64.netfxversion=2,rootwebconfig32.netfxversion=2,rootwebconfig64.netfxversion=2,computername=NC-USS-APP1 -whatif > msdeploysync.log

I am getting this error...

.\msdeploy.exe : Error: Unrecognized argument '"-source:package=f:\iso\oldweb.zip
machineconfig32.netfxversion=2 machineconfig64.netfxversion=2 rootwebconfig32.netfxversion=2
rootwebconfig64.netfxversion=2"'. All arguments must begin with "-".
At line:1 char:1
+ .\msdeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:package=f:\iso\oldweb.zip,machineconfig32.netf ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (Error: Unrecogn...begin with "-".:String) [], RemoteException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError

Error count: 1.

ERROR_FRAMEWORK_VERSIONS_DO_NOT_MATCH

1. Use the netFxVersion provider setting to tell Web Deploy exactly which .Net settings to migrate. Here is a command line example which forces Web Deploy to sync .Net 2.0 settings:

   msdeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:webserver,machineconfig32.netfxversion=2,machineconfig64.netfxversion=2,rootwebconfig32.netfxversion=2,rootwebconfig64.netfxversion=2 -dest:webserver,machineconfig32.netfxversion=2,machineconfig64.netfxversion=2,rootwebconfig32.netfxversion=2,rootwebconfig64.netfxversion=2,computername=destServername

2. Run Web Deploy in the same version of .Net between client and server. On the client side, you can change the ordering of the supportedRuntime version element in the "%programfiles%\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3\msdeploy.exe.config" file for the version of .Net that is specified first (see gacInstall provider for an example of this). This will indicate the version of .Net that will be loaded, assuming it is installed on your system. On the server side, you can do the same for "%programfiles%\IIS\microsoft web deploy\msdepsvc.exe.config". If you modify this file, make sure to restart the Web Deployment Agent Service (net stop msdepsvc & net start msdepsvc).

We have to servers that sync using sync-wdserver, this has worked fine up until now.  Recently we got an SSL certificate for a site hosted on those servers, it was initially installed via iis 8 on both servers however it was later removed and the SSL installed on the load balancer instead.  Since this occurred, the two servers are unable to sync in the regular fashion, the following error occurs on the slave:

User:
Client IP: private ip here
Content-Type: application/msdeploy
Version: 9.0.0.0
MSDeploy.VersionMin: 7.1.600.0
MSDeploy.VersionMax: 9.0.1955.0
MSDeploy.Method: Sync
MSDeploy.RequestId: 8f1de4f4-9d33-41b1-abd2-045c2907f894
MSDeploy.RequestCulture: en-US
MSDeploy.RequestUICulture: en-US
ServerVersion: 9.0.1763.0
Skip: objectName="^configProtectedData$"
Provider: webServer, Path:
A tracing deployment agent exception occurred that was propagated to the client. Request ID '8f1de4f4-9d33-41b1-abd2-045c2907f894'. Request Timestamp: '3/31/2017 12:18:20 PM'. Error Details:
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80070520): A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070520)
at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.AxNative.NativeMethods.HttpSetSslConfiguration(String binding, String hash, String appId, String storeName, Int32 certCheckMode, Int32 freshnessTime, Int32 urlRetrievalTimeout, String ctlIdentifier, String ctlStoreName, Int32 flags)
at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.HttpCertCommitableItem.ApplyConfiguration()
at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.HttpCertCommitableItem.CommitChanges(DeploymentCommitContext commitContext)
at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentCommitContext.CommitChanges(DeploymentSyncOptions syncOptions, DeploymentBaseContext baseContext)
at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentObject.SyncToInternal(DeploymentObject destObject, DeploymentSyncOptions syncOptions, PayloadTable payloadTable, ContentRootTable contentRootTable, Nullable`1 syncPassId, String syncSessionId)
at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentAgent.HandleSync(DeploymentAgentAsyncData asyncData, Nullable`1 passId)
at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentAgent.HandleRequestWorker(DeploymentAgentAsyncData asyncData)
at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentAgent.HandleRequest(DeploymentAgentAsyncData asyncData)

It seems some broken certificate somewhere is causing an issue, when I run the sync-wdserver from powershell on the master I notice the following warning before the logon error above also appears below this warning:

WARNNING: skipping source cert ("some hash appears here") because of rule skipinvalidsource. No certificate found in store My with has "same hash as above"

I assume the issue is related to the SSL certificates that were installed and removed, somewhere an issue has been caused.  Can anyone clarify what the problem is and if possible how to resolve it so we are able to sync the servers successfully again?

Hello all,

I am currently trying to use the dbDacFx provider to deploy a dacpac to a remote sequel server. However, when I do this, I get an ERROR_SCRIPTDOM_NEEDED_FOR_SQL_PROVIDER. I am doing this via command prompt.

This error, thankfully, gave me a link which showed the dependencies I would have to install. So I went ahead and installed all the ones which weren't already installed and attempted to run the command again but ended up with the same error.

I tried uninstalling web deploy and all the dependencies and then used Web Platform Installer to install web deploy. This also installed all required dependencies. No change. I did this for both my desktop and the remote server.

This is the command I am running. I am often using msdeploy to deploy .zip packages to this server, so I know my connection is fine.

msdeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:dbDacFx='C:\Users\tsyme\Documents\int_testing\.build\New folder\Database.dacpac' -dest:dbDacFx='Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=SkyWirePOS;Integrated Security=true',computername='https://ServerIpHere:8172/msdeploy.axd',username='InsertAdminHere',password='InsertPassHere',authType=Basic -allowUntrusted -enableRule:DoNotDeleteRule

Thanks, would appreciate any feedback 

Hi all,

Does anybody know which webdeploy providers are supported when deploying to Azure WebApp? I'm using msdeploy.exe from command line in order to do that. I've seen it working for contentPath provider but getting ERROR_USER_NOT_AUTHORIZED_FOR_DEPLOYMENTPROVIDER for runCommand provider. I cannot find any possibility to configure the deployment user permissions in Azure for my WebApp (as I could do it for Management Service under IIS)...

I would appreciate any clarification regarding this topic.