We have a live web site which has to be live 24x7.... We are currently going through a large rebuild program, and are trying to decide on the best ongoing deployment solution. We regularly have changes which require the site to "recompile" - leading to up to 10 minutes downtime during an update...

Hi all, I would like to get your comments about how to set Web Deployment Tool in the right place, compared to using MSI files created with Visual Studio (Web Setup Projects, in concret) to deploy sites/ASPX apps, or using a robust product such as SCCM to deploy software. My objective is to know what's...

Hello, I am using 2 PCs(on LAN) with OS:windows XP equipped by IIS 5.1 and I installed Web Deployment tools, I want to deploy ASP files from one to the other, but I dont know how to do? Can you please help me to do that or any hint? Thank you very much

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, 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"...

Hello, I am currently working on a deployment web app, which wraps msdeploy. I have run successfully from my local machine. However, when deployed to our dev server, the deployment app doesn't work. Files are not copied and I get the following event log entry: Event Type: Error Event Source: Application...