Using Web Deploy - Permissions

Question

I am using Web Deploy to deploy my MVC3 applications from Visual Studio 2010.

All goes perfect when I user the Administrator account of the server in the Web Deploy dialog.

I have a new employee starting. I created a new user on the server. This way, I can disable this user if necessary. I gave Administrator permissions as a test, but sadly this user was not allowed to deploy to the server.

Can anyone tell me what (minimum) permissions I need to give this user so they can deploy applications from Visual Studio?

Answer 1

I don't know if you ever solved your problem, but I had the same problem today. Reading this article helped me solve it. See #5 in the article for setting up specific user permissions for Web Deploy.

Answer 2

If your target machine is running IIS6 or a client version of Windows (Vista/7) then they need to have administrative privileges. Using the Web Deployment Agent should work for this (e.g. publish to http://foobar).

If you want to allow non-admins to publish, you need a machine running IIS7 on a server SKU of Windows (2008/2008R2). You can set up delegation rules to allow users permissions to specific WebDeploy providers. See this for a description of how to get started. This goes through the Web Deploy Management Service, so your target machine will be either https://foobar:8172/MSDeploy.axd, or just foobar).