Avoid deleting App_Data folder when publishing?
Hi I am using Visual Studio 2012 and WebDeploy 3.0 to deploy my MVC 4 web app to my Windows Server 2008 R2. I have set the option to "Remove additional files at destination", but want to keep the...
View ArticleVS 2012 Update 4 / WebDeploy 3.5 breaks custom Transforms
Hi,We have an asp.net webapi project (.net 4.0) where we use a custom xdt Transform to manipulate some values in our web.config. Our development environment is Visual Studio 2012.Until we installed VS...
View ArticleWebDeploy error trying to build an IIS 6 package
Hello - We are attemting to migrate from our Win 2003 IIs 6 [source server] to a newly built Win 2012 R2 IIs8.5 server and attempting to use the following article as our...
View ArticleUsing MSDeploy as a Backup Solution Question
Little bit of a newb to MSDeploy.. but from reading through the docs and my own trial and error.. I am thinking I should be able to use this tool to back up all IIS configurations and website content...
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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 ArticleThe asp_net folder problem
HelloSometimes the web deploy fails because it hasn't enough rights to delete the empty folder "asp_net", which IIS sometimes generates inside a web application. At the moment we have from time to time...
View Articleerror parameterizing application pool identity
Hello,There seems to be a bug in msdeploy when using it for parameterizing the application pool identity in combination with setting access rights through the setAcl provider.In Visual Studio, we are...
View ArticleMSDeploy sync - get the error from the console
So basically I am using msdeploy in order to deploy a site to IIS. I am using the msdeploy console. My script is something like thatmsdeploy -verb:sync -source:contentPath="c:\Site1"...
View ArticleWeb Deploy ASP.net
Hola amigos, espero me puedan ayudar, estoy tratando de publicar mi pagina web ASP.net en la carpeta de IIS de un servidor, coloco todos los datos y la carpeta destino, las carpeta se empiezan a crear...
View ArticleAutomatic build/deploy of ASP.NET CMS modules using TFS2010
We are using a CMS system which is not included as part of our Visual Studio solution. When we develop for the CMS, we create individual projects within the solution for: Widgets Templates Masterpages...
View ArticlePrevent file from being overwritten on deploy?
I am using web deploy to push changes to my Web Site Project (not a web application) from my development machine to my staging server. I would like to push any files that are different to the staging...
View ArticleWeb Deploy to Azure using non standard ports
Hi;I was redireted to this forum by Vivian Wang. I originally posted the question in the Azure forum.I have two VMs on the same virtual network. I have configured a MS Deploy project for one. It uses...
View ArticleMS Web Deploy IIS7 package to IIS7 fails
We have an IIS7 web server, hosting ~15 web sites, for a total size of around 80 GB. We could like to transfer those sites and all server settings to a new IIS7 installation on a different server. In...
View ArticleMSDEPLOY didn't migrate asp.net version of application pool
Hi all,I am stucking in IIS migration. I have one Windows Server 2003 x86 with IIS6 and one Windows Server 2012 x64 with IIS8. Now i need to migrate entire server (website, application pool,...
View ArticleHow to remove "Info:" and stop line splitting from command (stdout) output
When you run commands using for example preSync and postSync, the stdout output of the remote command execution gets redirected back to the client where msdeploy.exe is being run.Unfortunately output...
View Articlemsdeploy postsync / runCommand unable to access SQL LocalDb automatic instance
I am using msdeploy to deploy some NUnit tests and the NUnit framework to a remote computer, then I am executing the tests using the nunit-console runner. The tests do database integration tests using...
View ArticleHow do I publish multiple services using Web Deploy 3.5 with MSBuild...
My publish.xml file, which works for publishing from Visual Studio 2010, looks like this:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><publishData><publishProfile...
View ArticleMsDeploy Exception on Windows Server 2003 R2
Hi,I'm having great trouble getting Web Deploy working on several of our older Windows Server 2003 R2 machines. I'm trying to create a deployment package and then run it, but even for a default...
View ArticleUse msDeploy to package and deploy NON-web based projects
I just wrote an article on how msDeploy can be used to to generate from a build server packages intended for NON-web based apps like Console Applications and Windows Services.I combine it partially...
View ArticleWebDeploy error: IsCleanMSDeployPackageNeeded failed
Hi,I am using VS2012, and have an ASP.Net application with an associated TFS2010 build definition that builds on a build server. I am attempting to get this build to perform an automated deployment to...
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