Hi All,

I am using Web Deploy by way of Visual Studio / Build / Publish

I am NOT using Web Deploy and the VS Publish process to deploy my DataBase (I am doing that separately using Visual Studio Data Tools).

I AM  trying to alter my 2 web.config  database connection strings differently for each Publish Profile.  I have tried to do this using:

    Visual Studio / Build / Publish / Settings / Databases / ConnectionString  DBName;Persist Security Info=True;
    User ID=UserName;Password=Password

    I have CHECKED the Checkbox "Use this connection string at runtime (update destination web.config)"

    I have left UNCHECKED the Checkbox Update Database

However with these settings although the deployment otherwise works well, the connection strings are NOT updated in the destination web.config

I did get my site working using standard web.config Transforms based on Build Configuration (debug, release or custom).  However I would prefer an approach that transforms Connection Strings based on Publish Profiles.

Any help to get this working would be appreciated.

Thanks

Terry Clancy

ClanceZ

Problem;
We are currently syncing our CA (content author server) to our CD's (content delivery server) using web deploy.
We have a large number of sites (400+) and some sites have to be excluded from the sync.

I am looking for a way to speed up the process as it currently takes about 20min to sync all the sites.

I am doing this with a PowerShell script that just loops through the sites skipping anything in the exclude list.

$sites = Get-ChildItem IIS:\Sites -Exclude $excludsite$msdeploy ="C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3\msdeploy.exe"
foreach ($site in $sites) {

I would really love to be able to just sync all of IIS except a few sites as I have seen how much faster it is to use the 

Sync-WDServer

vs the

msdeploy.exe -verb:sync

I tried moving the sync task to a PowerShell job and syncing lots of sites at the same time but if anything that seemed to be a little slower.
Looking at testing out 

Sync-WDSite

but this is still going to require looping through each site one by one and original tests had settings issues.

Any tips/idea’s would be appreciated.

Hi

I am trying to migrate from IIS 7.0 on windows 2008 DC Edition x86 to IIS 8 windows 2012 Pro x64.

OLD 2008 MACHINE NAME: WSPWEB-1
NEW 2012 MACHINE NAME: WSPWEB-1NEW

on WSPWEB-1 on Web Deploy V3 folder I run:

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:metakey=lm/w3svc/442,computername=WSPWEB-1 -dest:auto -enableLink:appPool -whatif > c:\msdeploysync.log

then i move the folder over the network to WSPWEB-1NEW machine and run command:

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:package=c:\Site1.zip -dest:auto -enableLink:appPool > WebDeploySync.log

I then add a binding to the site to test it, the application pool gives a 503 error as the user that the application pools runs as is not migrated.

Can the tool also migrate the users and passwords??

I tried using Windows migration tool, exported users/groups from WSPWEB-1 to WSPWEB1-NEW  but it still didnt work so i think its not moving the users correctly.

Moving users script i run:
WSPWEB-1: Export-SmigServerSetting -User All -Group -Path c:\MigratedUsers\ -Verbose

WSPWEB-1NEW: Import-SmigServerSetting -User All -Group -Path c:\MigratedUsers\ -Verbose

HELP! :)

Is there a way to cause msdeploy to do an unconditional copy. The examples I've encountered for sync will only copy if the destination file is older than the source file.

I have a scenario where I want an unconditional copy from source to destination.

Thank you.

Hello,

I have used the method described here, https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff398068(v=vs.110).aspx, to successfully get the 

<setParameter name="Sql script variable $(logText) in ApplicationServices-Deployment scripts"
    value="DefaultText" />

in my SetParameters.xml. My question: is there any way to edit what gets displayed as the "name" and "description" attributes before or after deploying an application via Web Deploy? Regular parameters in the parameters.xml allow one to set these values but there only seems to be a way to set the default value according to the documentation. 

Also, is there a simple equivalent to Web Deploy for desktop applications? Using Wix or InstallShield seems very involved and OneClick doesn't have an equivalent parameterization ability like Web Deploy at install time.

Thank you

Hi All,

I am newbie to MsDeploy , so far i have gone through many articles which suggest how to deploy my package under specified app pool using parameter.xml  but i am unable to set my app pool , it gets set to default appPool of Site and not the one mentioned in parameter.xml , then i came across the article https://forums.iis.net/t/1179941.aspx . I tried to set this in my wpp.targets file but 

 <PropertyGroup>

   <_Destination_IisServer_IisAppPoolName>Your App Pool Name</_Destination_IisServer_IisAppPoolName>

 </PropertyGroup>

even after this my archive.xml does not contain an entry for <MsDeploy.appHostConfig  .Let me know how should i proceed.

Hello,

We are migrating from IIS 7.00 (on 2008 server) to IIS 10 (on a 2016 server) and are running into this error. Any pointers appreciated.

C:\>msdeploy -verb:sync -source:archiveDir=c:\migration,encryptPassword=xyzpass -dest:auto -debug
Info: Updating section (MSDeploy.webServer/webServer/appHostConfig[@path='']/configSections/sectionGroup[@name='system.webServer']/section[@name='httpCompression']).
Info: Adding child appHostConfig (MSDeploy.webServer/webServer/appHostConfig[@path='']/location[@path='']).
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800700B7): Cannot create a file when that file already exists. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800700B7)
   at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.IAppHostConfigLocationCollection.AddLocation(String bstrLocationPath)
   at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.AppHostConfigProvider.AddChild(DeploymentObject source, Int32 position, Boolean whatIf)
   at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentObject.AddChild(DeploymentObject source, Int32 position, DeploymentSyncContext syncContext)
   at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentSyncContext.HandleAddChild(DeploymentObject destParent, DeploymentObject sourceObject, Int32 position)
   at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentSyncContext.SyncChildrenNoOrder(DeploymentObject dest, DeploymentObject source)
   at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentSyncContext.SyncChildren(DeploymentObject dest, DeploymentObject source)
   at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentSyncContext.SyncChildrenOrder(DeploymentObject dest, DeploymentObject source)
   at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentSyncContext.SyncChildrenOrder(DeploymentObject dest, DeploymentObject source)
   at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentSyncContext.ProcessSync(DeploymentObject destinationObject, DeploymentObject sourceObject)
   at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentObject.SyncToInternal(DeploymentObject destObject, DeploymentSyncOptions syncOptions, PayloadTable payloadTable, ContentRootTable contentRootTable, Nullable`1 syncPassId, String syncSessionId)
   at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentObject.SyncTo(DeploymentProviderOptions providerOptions, DeploymentBaseOptions baseOptions, DeploymentSyncOptions syncOptions)
   at MSDeploy.MSDeploy.ExecuteWorker()
Error count: 1.

trying to deploy a package with images and hitting this. Image size is 1k. If i remove images folder from the package all seems fine.

I have found some examples that appear similar to my failed efforts but none that are exactly the same. I'm attempting to migrate from IIS 7.5 to IIS 8.5.

The command I'm using follows:

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:archivedir=c:\users\me\desktop\iismigration\sourceserver.zip -dest:webserver -whatif >c:\users\me\desktop\msdeploy.txt
Error: Cannot create a file when that file already exists. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800700B7)
Error count: 1.

The "whatif" file provides the following:

Info: Adding child appHostConfig (MSDeploy.webServer/webServer/appHostConfig[@path='']/location[@path='']).

The two "webServer" comments above have me thinking it's a poorly written command more so than the file already exists.

If someone has a suggestion I'll appreciate it.

hello

my situation is this

i have a iis 6 with the "default web site" with a number of applications and virtual directories

I want to migrate some of the applications and virtual directories to another iis7 under its "default web site" which is already populated with other applications. Of course i want to add the applications without disrupting the existed. I need to do this with msdeploy tool, i include the "enablelink:apppoolextension" or the "enablelink:apppool" but the application pools are not migrating, and not included in the zip package

Please advice

thanks

Hi

I'm trying to migrate IIS 6.0 sites to a new IIS 8.0 box using msdeploy.

One of the websites include 50GB of files.  I'd like to exclude all these files from the msdeploy backup and copy them over via another method.

This is what I've tried so far without success

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:metakey=lm/w3svc/1 -dest:package=D:\Backup\Site1.zip,encryptPassword=123456 -enablelink:AppPool -skip:dirpath=D:\Optimise > WebDeployPackage.log

Error: Unrecognized skip directive 'dirpath'. Must be one of the following: "objectName," "keyAttribute," "absolutePath," "xPath," "attributes.<name>."

Error count: 1.

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:metakey=lm/w3svc/1 -dest:package=D:\Backup\Site1.zip,encryptPassword=123456 -enablelink:AppPool -skip:Directory=D:\Optimise > WebDeployPackage.log

Error: The regular expression 'D:\Optimise' is invalid.

Error: parsing "D:\Optimise" - Unrecognized escape sequence \O.

Error count: 1.

Any Ideas?

Alex

Hello mate,

Have a very good day to all. I am newbie here. I need your help please. I am looking for a tool to measure my website loading speed.

What kind of tools do you use? 

Thanks!

Hello, I'm very new to .Net Core, Web Deploy, and IIS Management.  I'm on the SysOps side of things so I want to verify that I'm doing things correctly.  I've just finished setting up Web Deploy so our Developers can deploy to IIS.  We've come across this error:
Error Insufficient Access to AppHostConfig

I've read somewhere that I could give them access to the Applicationhost.config file in the Windows\System32\inetsrv\config folder.  Is this the correct thing to do?

Hi.

We use tfsbuild 2010 and provide msbuild parameters (/p:CreatePackageOnPublish=true /p:DeployOnBuild=True) to the solution being built during CI. These parameters are used by all web application projects in the solution, thus deploying all of them.

Is there a way to exclude certain web applications from being deployed? Or can we specify which of them to deploy in a comma-separated list? Can we do any hacks inside certain project files (I have an idea here, but am hoping for a simpler solution)?

Any pointers would be great!

Lars Andreas

I am trying to deploy an asp.net MVC site to a remote IIS Server. The deployment work fine in Visual Studio but I want to automate it.

I am using the following MSDeploy Command:

"C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3\msdeploy.exe" -verb:sync -source:package="SportsStore.WebUI.csproj.zip" -dest:iisApp="Default Web Site/SSBuild",ComputerName="http://r2anet01.eastus.cloudapp.azure.com/MSDEPLOYAGENTSERVICE",UserName='Scott',Password='?????',AuthType='Basic' -allowUntrusted

MS deploy returns the following error:

Error Code: ERROR_USER_NOT_ADMIN
More Information: Connected to 'r2anet01.eastus.cloudapp.azure.com' using the Web Deployment Agent Service, but could not authorize. Make sure you are an administrator on 'r2anet01.eastus.cloudapp.azure.com'. Learn more at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_USER_NOT_ADMIN.
Error: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.
Error count: 1.

I am using the same username/password in MSDeploy that I use in Visual Studio.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

I've been using Web Deployment Tool for some time, but now i have to restore an site hosted on IIS 10 to a server with IIS 7.5.

The website was running in IIS 7.5 until some weeks ago. We create a new server with IIS 10, and used msdeploy version 9.0.19730 to import the site from IIS 7.5 for IIS 10 (perfect, without any issues).

We keep the two sites running side by side (responding to diferent URL's)

Now we have some problem with the server running IIS 7.5 (unfortunately we could't upgrade the windows version on this server at this moment).

I’ve create a package with the site content in IIS 10:

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:webserver -dest:package=E:\IIS10.zip,encryptPassword= SOMEPASS > msdeploysync.log

When i try to restore it on IIS 7.5:

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:package=E:\IIS10.zip,encryptPassword= SOMEPASS -dest:webserver > msdeployrestore.log

Error: Child object 'customFields' cannot be added to object 'logFile'. The 'logFile' provider may not support this deployment.

Error count: 1.

Following  this thread: https://serverfault.com/questions/715407/customfields-error-when-using-msdeploy-to-export-import-website-between-server

I've unziped the IIS10.zip file and editted  archive.xml file removing the line with the "customFields".

Then genereted a new zip file (IIS10Edited.zip)

Now running:

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:package=E:\IIS10Edited.zip,encryptPassword= SOMEPASS -dest:webserver > msdeployrestore1.log

I received the error:

Error: Source (contentPath) and destination (webServer) are not compatible for the given operation.

Error count: 1.

Changing the command to:

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:package=E:\IIS10Edited.zip,encryptPassword= SOMEPASS -dest:auto > msdeployrestore1.log

Error Code: ERROR_SITE_DOES_NOT_EXIST

More Information: Site '.' does not exist.  Learn more at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=221672#ERROR_SITE_DOES_NOT_EXIST.

Error count: 1.

Some ideas of how work aroung this problem?

Thanks in advance.

Hello all,

I am having an issue using Web Deploy to sync two WebServers together when running the following command:

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:webServer,computername=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx,username=<wd_user>,password=<wd_passwd> -dest:webServer,computerName=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx,username=<wd_user>,password=<wd_passwd> -skip:file="\\.*\.tmp"

I receive the following error:

Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentException: (2/16/2018 2:14:17 PM) An error occurred when the request was processed on the remote computer. ---> System.Exception: A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070520)
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, String user, String siteName)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.StatusThreadHandler.CheckForException()
at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.AgentClientProvider.RemoteDestSync(DeploymentObject sourceObject, DeploymentSyncContext syncContext, Nullable`1 syncPass, String syncSessionId)
at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentObject.SyncToInternal(DeploymentObject destObject, DeploymentSyncOptions syncOptions, PayloadTable payloadTable, ContentRootTable contentRootTable, Nullable`1 syncPassId, String syncSessionId)
at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentObject.SyncTo(DeploymentProviderOptions providerOptions, DeploymentBaseOptions baseOptions, DeploymentSyncOptions syncOptions)
at MSDeploy.MSDeploy.ExecuteWorker()
Error count: 1.

Things I have tried:

• tested Certificates on both servers with "certutil -v -store my <cert_Thumbprint>" which as far as I can tell showed they were working properly.
• Set owners permissions of the "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys" to the Administrators group.
• exporting/importing certificates with an exportable private key.
• Going to "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/MSDEPLOYAGENTSERVICE" on both servers and logging on with the required user accounts.
• Reinstalling Web Deploy on the server that I feel is the issue.
• Using the flag -allowuntrusted=true to the end of the command listed above.

Accessing https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:XXXX/msdeploy.axd which loads a blank page however when I into the browser's debugger > Networking I see a 404 "File not found" error, I didn't think this was the issue but I am not sure of the default behavior.

I've spent a lot of time trying to troubleshoot this but for the life of me I can't seem to get it going, really hoping that it is something silly that I missed.

Anyone have any ideas or helpful hints?

Cheers,

_Tortoise

Hi,

I was trying to deploy a site by skipping App_Data folder. Since I have log files which I need them.

How can I skip the folder.

I have used the following commands, it didn't help me out.

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:package=abc.Web.zip -dest:auto,computername="abc.local",username="abc",password="abc" -setParam:kind=ProviderPath,scope=iisApp,value="abc.com" -allowUntrusted

-skip:objectName=dirPath,absolutePath=.*App_Data.*,skipAction=delete

I have tried many combinations.

I appreciate if someone can help me out. thanks in advance.

According to this post, appOfflineTemplate allows me to specify a relative path to an html file. My question is, relative to what? Is it to the path that's being published to, or some other location?

Thank you

Hi,

Currently I have multiple applications deployed under a single web site (mysite.com/app1, mysite.com/app2 etc...). I would like now to give a 3rd party the ability to deploy to one of those applications (let's say app2) while it seems web deploy can be configured only at the site level ? (giving them the ability to deploy to any app under the site).

How could I handle this case ? For now I don't see much other solution than maybe to create a separate app2 site pointing at the same location and that would be used only for deployment... Or is there some simpler solution ?

Thanks in advance.