I am running into a situation where I need to find a better approach to deploy web applications (asp.net to iis6..sorry ruby lovers :( and I was curious what some of you have done? I have seen products out there (Anthill?) but I am really looking for a way that my operations team can script a way to grab zip files (packaged code and assemblies), unzip, deploy to a farm. Anyone have any thoughts or solutions that they may be using?
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You mention a tool that Microsoft has in Beta, msdeploy.exe. Is that not a good choice for you?
On IIS6, the state of the art was adsutil.vbs, iisweb.vbs, iisback.vbs, iiscnfg.vbs, and iisext.vbs or learning an arcane script programming model for IIS.
I think msdeploy will be a large step up from wrapping those primitive utils with powershell and other scripts or batch files, with its "syncing" approach.
popcnt
2009-03-02 07:32:06
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Also from VS 2010 standpoint, MSdeploy will be integrated into IDE so that would certainly be the direction to go... Check out bit.ly/21naYV
-Vishal
Vishal R. Joshi
2009-10-30 08:00:16
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Supposedly, MSDeploy ships with a PowerShell snapin and cmdlets... so you shouldn't have to choose.
The bad news is, I can't find that snapin on my system ;)
Jaykul
2009-11-02 08:00:51