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...

follow up: found this useful link: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/310/what-is-new-for-microsoft-and-ftp-75/ quote (edited): ... brand-new FTP service that is available as a separate download for Windows Server® 2008 ... robust, secure solution for FTP in a Windows environment. ... written specifically...

Is there a way to deploy the contents of a local folder to a remote server and at the same time create a new virtual directory for the content on the remote server using MSDeploy? For example, I'd like to use MSDeploy to deploy the contents of "C:\MyWebFolder" to "http://myserver/MyWebApp"...

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.

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...

I fixed this error by disable the 'script source acces' on the home directory tab. But the following error appears at the next stap: Action: Adding child metaProperty (/lm/w3svc/1017621628/root/AccessFlags) Fatal: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Debug: System.NullReferenceException...

Hi, I'm having issues migrating websites and AppPools from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0. Right now I'm using the following script: msdeploy -verb:migrate -source:metakey=lm/w3svc/1,computerName=10.2.1.120 -dest:metakey=lm/w3svc/1 -whatif > msdeploymigrate.log This gets the Default AppPool to the destination...

I must be missing something. When I run the following code from the "Archiving and Restoring" walkthrough the only thing that is synced is the metabase. msdeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:metakey=LM/W3SVC/1031013737/ -dest:archivedir=F:\IISArchive\MySIte > F:\IISArchive\MySite.log Shouldn't...