Can you recommend resources to learn msdeploy? Books, blogs or other formats welcome.
Bonus points will be awarded for information focused at deploying to IIS 6 and inserting the SVN revision number into the packaged files.
Go to C:\Windows\System32 and right click on CMD. EXE. Choose “Run as Administrator”. Once the command prompt is up, you will navigate to the folder level where MSDeploy.exe exists.
The Web Deploy is a tool for simplifying migration, management and deployment of Web applications, sites and servers. It can be used to package a Web site, automatically including content, configuration, certificates and databases. It can be used to synchronize between IIS 6.0, IIS 7.
Overview. Web Deploy (msdeploy) simplifies deployment of Web applications and Web sites to IIS servers. Administrators can use Web Deploy to synchronize IIS servers or to migrate to newer versions of IIS.
There is lots of reference documentation for command line use of the Web Deploy tool on TechNet. For practical how-to’s IIS.NET is the place to go.
Unfortunately, there's very little documentation on how to customize the deployment package during from the build. So, I've posted an article on my blog about my own findings while preping a project for deployment with Web Deploy recently.
It contains links to other articles as well as how to implement common deployment requirements, including some handling of version / build numbers.
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