Hi, I thought I read somewhere that msdeploy should check the connection string parameters, especially if it can connect and login to the database server at all. It does not seem to happen. This is especially critical when installing through IIS, it should check the existence of the database before proceeding...

We are using a dedicated Windows 2003 machine running IIS 6.0 and SQL Server 2005 (on the same machine). Our code is Classic ASP and recently our server became unresponsive during busy hours where only about 50 requests would execute (with long delay) and the rest would time out. For the site visitors...