Web Deploy Automatic Backups?
Is there some magic to getting the backups to work? I have a new test server and have installed WebDeploy 3.5. I've configured the default site to allow deployment.I've run BackupScripts.ps1 and...
View ArticlePublish a single site
I have a deployment .zip created by Visual Studio. I have an IIS site called test (this is NOT an application beneath Default Web Site).I'm having trouble with the proper syntax to publish to this...
View ArticleReplace Rule Help
I know there is alot of info on Replace Rules and I have read almost everyone of them but I am having trouble finding the answer to my specific issue.I am syncing IIS sites without content from a IIS6...
View Articlesome .asax .svc files become empty after deploy
We use msdeploy V3 to push our services(about 10 services) to AWS EC2.Here is step in script:1.Create instance in AWS.2.Deploy all services to the instance created in step 1 one by one.3.Terminate the...
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ERROR_USER_NOT_AUTHORIZED_FOR DEPLOYMENTPROVIDER for appPoolConfig Provider...
I am trying to configure IIS 7 to allow non-admins to deploy to a server using WebDeploy 3.5 and the IIS Management Service. I set up an IIS Manager User and gave it permissions to the web site that I...
View ArticleWhen exactly is TransformWebConfig called?
I'm trying to understand the packaging/deployment pipeline of msdeploy. If I build a web project with the "Package" target, it does a nice job of putting the package in a zip file. But, when I look at...
View ArticleSetParameters.xml - replace DB server name part of connection string (instead...
Hi,How can I define a parameter that will just replace the database server part of the connection string in web.config rather than the ENTIRE connection string?My incomplete parameters.xml file looks...
View ArticleDeployment Package Password - VS 2012 / VS 2013
I have a few projects that I had configured for Web Deploy Packaging using VS 2010. I had configured these to pick up the local IIS settings and include them in the deployment process. Thus, a...
View ArticleWebdeploy parameters matching issue
hi All,How can I replace only Initial catlog and Data source from connectionString by using parameters in Web deploy?I have vs2010 and webdeploy 2.0. ( I need to use defualt IIS manager UI - which is...
View ArticleHow to make a iisApp package parameterized so that a deployed application is...
Does anybody know how to make a iisApp package parameterized so that a deployed application is referenced to a given application pool in a setParamFile?I tried many things, please help!Below a...
View ArticleStrange behavior when sync with contentPath
Hi Guys,I have a <contentPath path="C:\Deployment\SomeContent\SomeFolder" /> in my manifest file. It is a very simple manifest file, just one contentPath and a couple of runCommand after it.When...
View ArticleAppOffline rule with new subfolder fails
We use the MS Deploy 3.0 to install also applications in subfolders but when the rule AppOffline is enabled MS Deploy fails the deploy with the following output:deploy: [exec] Info: Using ID...
View ArticleError Code: ERROR_EXCEPTION_WHILE_CREATING_OBJECT
Hi,I'm trying to migrate the contents of a remote IIS6 web server to a local (server 2012) IIS8 server. Both servers use framework 4 and I've been explicit about this in the msdeploy. The remote server...
View ArticleEncrypting web.config during deployment?
I have seen the new "EncryptWebConfig" rule in 3.5 but it appears to handle only the connectionsStrings section.We don't need to encrypt the entire appSettings section, but I would like to be able to...
View ArticleError The handshake failed due to an unexpected packet format
I get the Error The handshake failed due to an unexpected packet format when trying to deply a web site using webdeploy.I have tried with the command line on the server and get the same error. I am...
View ArticleERROR_USER_NOT_AUTHORIZED_FOR_DEPLOYMENTPROVIDER
I'm developing a method for a developer (non Windows admin) to roll back a site deployment (using the automatic backup)msdeploy -verb:dump...
View Articlelimitations of -postsync
I've created a delegation rule for the runCommand provider for my deployment userI've added -postsync:runcommand="c:\test\foo.bat" to a working msdeploy command line, as a simple test. I was assuming...
View Articlemsdeploy - restore backup
I've enabled automatic backups. I'm able to deploy from the command line with: msdeploy -verb:sync -source:package=web3.zip -dest:auto,wmsvc=https://pippin.ad.domainorg:8172/msdeploy.axd?s...
View ArticleappOfflineTemplate with iis handler
We use the following command to deploy an application with the iis handler:msdeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:package="MyWebSite.zip"...
View ArticleWebDeploy v3.0 compatible with WebDeploy v3.5
Hi allShort question, can I have for example WebDeploy v3.0 on the client and WebDeploy v3.5 on the server?Kind regardsJürg
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