I am actively looking at FTP publishing. Anyway, before getting stuck into this more it crossed my mind that there may be other more appropriate ways to achieve what I need and hope someone can guide me. My needs are relatively simple: Visual Studio 2008 to develop an ASP.Net/C# application on Windows...

Is it possible to change the local path of a virtual directory on a remote machine using MSDeploy? We are using IIS 6.0 and need to update the virtual directory's local path with each deployment. Essentially the process goes like this: 1. Build/set up next version of bits to deploy. Place in local...

Hi msdeploy is a great tool, but unfortunately it's missing the features you request of handling stages of deployment. You either have to combine the tool with you own scripts to handle the process you want or look at a 3rd party product. The 3rd party products that I known of, that can handle the...

I've got a web project which references some DevExpress assemblies that are stored in the GAC. When I use the Web Deployment Tool (beta 2), these assemblies are not being picked up, so they are not getting to the web server. I have checked out the piece on dependencies here: http://learn.iis.net...

I have an ASP.NET 3.5 project that uses a couple WCF web services. They work great when I deploy the actual source files. However, If I precompile the web site before deployment, the web services break. Here is a screenshot of the yellow screen: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/117850/Precompiled%20Web%20Service...

I have an ASP.NET project that has several web services which are called from javascript files in the same project. The code behind for the services is in the appcode folder of the project and the .svc files are in the same folder as the javascript which calls them. I have created an install that creates...

Hi, We've just upgraded our build server and our deployment script is now failing when trying to archive a site. The line in question is msdeploy -verb:sync -source:metakey=lm/w3svc/%metakey%,computerName=XXX,userName=XXX,password=XXX -dest:archivedir=%applicationArchivePath% > D:\codeweavers...

Hi, I'm running into this error whenever I try to update a site that is either a) on another server or b) updating between 2 sites on a local box. Here is the script: msdeploy -verb:sync -source:appHostconfig="site1" -dest:appHostconfig="site2" > live.efxnow.com.log and msdeploy...

How with msdeploy i can specify the new AnonymousUser and password when i migrate my website from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0. My servers are not in a domain so it's not the same anonymous user. Thanks a lots.

Hi I've been using msDeploy for a feww days and it's working fine, except the replace rule, i am not able to execute the rule correctly. I have tried command, rule in configuration file and nothing has worked. Here is my last rule. <configuration ><rules ><rule name="ReplaceIPAddressInBinding"...