Error 1053 starting Web Deployment Agent Service
Hi,I am getting this error trying to start "Web Deployment Agent Service" on some of my servers. The exact error message is: "Windows could not start the Web Deployment Agent Service service on Local...
View ArticleDeploymentAgentException: Value cannot be null.
command:msdeploy -verb:dump -source:contentPat h="Default Web Site\Website1",computerName=serverName,userName=username,password=password -debugserverName is having IIS6.0 and Web Deployment Agent...
View ArticleMoving 1 site from one server to another
I have an old server, that at some point in the past someone migrated "most" of the sites away from. However we have just discovered that a few people have continued to use one of the internal Wiki's...
View ArticleBug when using -useChecksum and -whatif
When using msdeploy with -useChecksum and -whatif parameters the process uploads the entire package (or almost the entire package) to the server. However, the process correctly determines what changes...
View ArticleIIS 7.0 to IIS 8.0 Migration Help
HiI 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-1NEWon WSPWEB-1 on Web Deploy V3 folder...
View ArticleAdd MinPasswordLength policy check to AddDelegationRules.ps1
Hi!By default this script generates a password length of 12 and many times this is not enough, I have added a check to get default policy password length with ActiveDirectory module. Script checks if...
View ArticleHow to achieve Web.config transformation for website(Not Web application)
The web.config transformation built into Visual Studio and MSBuild is awesome.It does exactly that and in a very clean way.But there are a few issues with it:It only works for web applications.I got a...
View Articleweb deploy with or without bundled sql support
I'm planning on migrating iis 6 sites to iis 8.5. I want to install the Web Deploy tool but, I'm not sure if I should install it with or without the bundeled SQL suppport. What is the purpose of the...
View ArticleHow can I set parameters that include the parameterValidation Element for...
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...
View ArticleUsing msdeploy without installing
According to this answer msdeploy should work with xcopy installation. However, it looks like it still requires the registry key created as part of the installer. I get the following trace error...
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 Articleserver 2012 IIS8 Web deploy Recycleapp not working
I'm trying to use Management Service Delegation set up in IIS, and I'm having trouble. I have an AD user that is set up with site level permissions in IIS. The user is not an Administrator on the IIS...
View ArticleDeploying and installing Web service using MS Deploy
Hi there,I am using TFS 2010 and Visual Studio 2012. I have a solution which contains a web service project that gets built everynight and using wix, the solution can generate the executable file after...
View ArticleHow to include .map files in deploy?
Is there any way to include .map files when deploy files to server?
View ArticleWebDeploy logging - hosting environment
Hello,does WebDeploy mechanism allows to enable all operation logging server side and store this logs in some directory with proper naming (like WebDeploy user and date)? Since more and more users are...
View ArticleProblem with a sync randomly
I am doing a sync of my webserver using msdeploy and randomly(once a week or so) the sync just stops at the point below. It doesn't give an error message it just stops. Has anyone seen something like...
View ArticleSpecific the location of SQL Server Log Files in Web Deploy 3.5
I am using IIS Manager to create package file for my web application. I am wondering how/where can I specifiy location path for SQL Server Log files?
View ArticleWeb Application Deployment
After I go through the http://www.iis.net/learn/publish/using-web-deploy/building-a-web-deploy-package-from-visual-studio-2010I have question:after I build the web application package deployment...
View ArticleMigrating App Pools/Sites from IIS 6 to IIS 8 on another server
Hello All -I'm a newly hired systems administrator - the majority of my background is in networking, I've really only been in the systems administrator side of things for about 5 months now.Anyway - I...
View ArticleError : Web deployment task failed.
Hello folks. I've got web deployment setup on three servers right now. It works on two of them, but I can't get it to work on this one. I'm trying to deploy an application from VS2010 and I keep...
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