Is it possible to recycle an app pool on a remote machine using MSDeploy? If so, what is the syntax for such a command? We are using IIS 6, but syntax for IIS 7 would also be appreciated if there are differences between the two.

Ok, through further research I finally figured this one out... As I stated in my previous post, the encrypted passwords didn't match across systems (in the applicationHost.config file). This is because each server has a unique encryption key for IIS. Since I was calling MSDeploy.exe on a different...

Thanks for the response! I'm using IIS 7. One other question... does this have to be applied to the command line or can the settings be included in a paramters (or other) file? --- Thanks, Jeff

Is there an MSDeploy Provider that can set the Identity for an Application Pool? For example, in one environment, a web site runs under one identity. When we promote it to another environment, we want that Application Pool to run under another identity. Is this possible with MSDeploy?

Hi.. newbie here to msdeploy and trying to get through what are probably some basic problems: FYI, We have a server farm web1,2,3,4 and use DFS on our Database servers.. Basically for now I would like to be able to archive the metadatabase information just to a archive folder and test restoring that...