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• 08-27-2008, 12:03 PM

  mikeyfev1 Joined on 08-19-2008, 2:30 AM Posts 21	Does the msdeploy tool support the creation of AppPools? Reply Contact I have 9 web sites per web server and each runs in its own AppPool.

• 08-27-2008, 1:24 PM

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  SuperTramp Joined on 07-06-2008, 10:41 PM Seventies Posts 112

  Re: Does the msdeploy tool support the creation of AppPools? Reply Contact Yes.  If you sync the entire web server like this: msdeploy -verb:sync -source:webserver60 -dest:webserver60,computername=destComputer You will copy over all the configuration/content from the local machine to the destComputer.  This includes sites and application pool configuration.  (if you were dealing with IIS 7, just change webserver60 to webserver).

• 08-27-2008, 3:05 PM

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  faith_a Joined on 06-02-2004, 8:40 PM Posts 109

  Re: Does the msdeploy tool support the creation of AppPools? Reply Contact If you wanted to move an individual site and it's app pool, you can use the manifest provider. Something like this: msdeploy -verb:sync -source:manifest=mymanifest.xml -dest:manifest=mymanifest.xml The manifest would look something like this: <mymanifest> <appPoolConfig path="MySite1_Pool" /> <appHostConfig path="MySite1" /> </mymanifest> For IIS6, you would use metakey and the path to them in the metabase, like metakey=lm/w3svc/1 and metakey=lm/w3svc/apppools/MySite1_Pool Thanks, -faith This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

• 08-28-2008, 6:13 PM

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  SuperTramp Joined on 07-06-2008, 10:41 PM Seventies Posts 112	Re: Does the msdeploy tool support the creation of AppPools? Reply Contact Good point Faith.  If you want you can just sync the application pools themselves by using appPoolConfig= (empty path)

• 08-29-2008, 4:55 PM

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  mikeyfev1 Joined on 08-19-2008, 2:30 AM Posts 21

  Re: Does the msdeploy tool support the creation of AppPools? Reply Contact OK, I have solved this problem in the following manner:   I call the following batch file with %1=<AppPoolName>, %2=<the /lm/W3SVC website numeric value> batch file duplicate.bat: ======================================================================= set msdeploy="C:\program files\Microsoft web deploy\msdeploy.exe" set master=http://web01-d:81/msdeploy %msdeploy% -verb:sync -source:metakey=/lm/W3SVC/AppPool/%1,metaDataGetInherited=true,computerName=%master% -dest:metakey=/lm/W3SVC/AppPools/%1 %msdeploy% -verb:sync -source:metakey=/lm/W3SVC/%2,metaDataGetInherited=true,computerName=%master% -dest:metakey=/lm/W3SVC/%2 I do this for each web site/AppPool combo.  You have to create the AppPool first, since the web site references it. Now my problem has changed slightly.  We have decided to use a networked Windows storage location for the actual web site files instead of local DAS storage.  This means that every site in the web site pool will reference a UNC path to the actual virtual directory.  This is good because now I will only need 1 copy of the web site's files for multiple web servers in the pool.   However, I have noticed that the msdeploy command when used to sync a web site as I am doing above copies (or at least verifies consistency) of all the files in the web sites.  I really don't need to do this since all the web sites will be sharing the exact same copy of the files.  Is there a way (I would guess a manifest setting) to get the above-listed msdeploy web site sync command to not attempt to verify the file contents?

• 08-29-2008, 7:51 PM

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  SuperTramp Joined on 07-06-2008, 10:41 PM Seventies Posts 112	Re: Does the msdeploy tool support the creation of AppPools? Reply Contact By default MSDeploy should ignore UNC content (i.e. virtual directories pointing to UNC paths).  You can force the issue by adding a -disableLink:ContentExtension.   This tells the tool to not include file/directory content in its sync.