Avoid deleting App_Data folder when publishing?
Hi I am using Visual Studio 2012 and WebDeploy 3.0 to deploy my MVC 4 web app to my Windows Server 2008 R2. I have set the option to "Remove additional files at destination", but want to keep the...
View ArticleMSDeploy replace attributes
I am trying to msdeploy to restore the site on destination computer from the package i created on source IIS 7 site. The destination server IIS is also IIS7. The destination server however does not...
View ArticleThe process cannot access 'file.dll' because it is being used by another process
We have been using MSDeploy for deploying to one of our webn sites for quite some time with no isues. All dlls were managed. Recently we had to add a native dll to the deployment package. Now every...
View ArticleMSDeploy with parameter file containing password
I am using msdeploy V3 quite successfully in various advanced scenarios. One problem however I was not able to solve is, to have encrypted passwords in parameter files. These passwords are used...
View ArticleDeply IIS 8 Site to IIS 7
In IIS 8 I packaged a Web Site using the appHostConfig provider. When I try to import this site into IIS 7 I get the error message: Child object 'customAuthorization' cannot be added to object...
View ArticleMSDeploy 'Extensiblity' does not extend to Powershell snap-in or VS.Net task...
Unless I'm doing something wrong (my searches didn't turn anything up) msdeploy extensibility does not apply to the Powershell snap-in, or to the Visual Studio task library.I understand that in VS.Net,...
View ArticleWeb Deploy 3.0 and SQL scripts
I've been driving myself crazy trying to find decent documentation on using the Web Deploy tool from within the IIS7/Deploy/Export Application link in the Information Services Manager. I finally have...
View ArticleMSDeploy V3 MsDepSvc.exe Exception MSDeploy V3
HiThis has been reported earlier, but so far no much feedback was posted. So I am trying again. I have 15 Windows 2008 R2 / IIS 7.5 servers and it happens sporadically on all of them. So far I have not...
View ArticleIs the entire package uploaded to MsDeploy.axd?
We're considering moving to MSDeploy for a project with a large file system footprint (> 1gb) and I'd like to get some clarification on how MsDeploy.axd is used. Is the entire package uploaded to...
View ArticleMsDepSvc unhandled exception during sync runcommand action
Hi, Similar crash issues have been raised previously (http://forums.iis.net/p/1190341/2025969.aspx#2025969) but there was no response. Some others have also recently raised issues:...
View ArticleabsolutePath regular expression matching in skip parameter for msdeploy
Hello, I am having a hard time understanding how does the absolutePath matching works. I have a .bat calling msdeploy...
View Articlemsdeploy command line site=, sitename gets removed!!!
I'm trying to use ProjectName.deploy.cmd to publish my website and here's my command:MyProject.deploy.cmd /T /M:https://mydomain.com:8172/MsDeploy.axd?site=my_website_name /A:Basic /U:username...
View ArticleMSDeploy/MSDepSvc crashes on target server when site has multiple ipSecurity...
The target server is Windows 2008 R2. Fresh VM install, fully patched, .Net 4.0 installed. The IIS Rewrite Module 2 is installed. If any site in IIS has more than one IP address restriction (i.e....
View ArticleMS Deploy V3 sporadic ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_ACCESS_TO_SITE_FOLDER
Hi all I am getting sporadic ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_ACCESS_TO_SITE_FOLDER errors while deploying a WCF application via msdeploy V3. When I issue the command a second time (immediately after the first one)...
View ArticlerunCommand with parameters
Hello,I have a cmd file run.cmd which takes in 1 parameter: "c:\program files\list". Thus, if executed from a command window, it would look like this: > run.cmd "c:\program files\list"How do I do...
View ArticleIs MSDeploy abandoned? What is the alternative?
I am new to MSDeploy and very new to this forum, However I can't notice the lack of support from Microsoft. There are many questions about different issues and bugs not answered. Has Microsoft...
View ArticleHow to migrate particular website.
HI, I need some clarification from web deployment tool. In our iis server their are 10 websites hosted in 2003 server.i plan to migrate only 5 website to one 2008 server and another 5 websites to...
View ArticleMS Deploy V3 Error
We have sucessfuly used MS Deploy V2 in the past to transfer websites from IIS 6 32 bit to IIS 7.5 64 bit so I thought that I'd test out MS Deploy V3. I created an MS Deploy V3 package on my IIS 6...
View Articlepublishing to multiple sites on the same server. concerns over the size being...
Hello, Currently I have multiple sites on the same server. to which I want to deploy same update(sites have the same website content). Per my understanding of MS web deploy, I see the following...
View ArticleIncluding non-referenced assemblies with MSDeploy package
I have recently installed the TFS 2010 RC at my office and am looking to use it for our CI on a new MVC 2 project I have going right now. Unfortunately, while everything started out great, I ran into a...
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