msdeploy

Customize web deployment package in Visual Studio 2010

I have a WCF DataService build in VS 2010, targetting .Net 4.0. This all works fine. I've created a deployment package and have the application deployed to a web server using MSDeploy and a zip file. When I set up an automated build on a TFS Build Agent the contents of the deployment package changed. I no longer get the strong named asse...

Run powershell script automatically after MSDeploy

As a part of the deployment process, I'd like the user to specify a password that is encrypted after the deployment process. For encrypting the password, I need to call the aspnet_regiis or use C#. How do I automatically invoke a script/or command line command after the deployment is complete (deployment is done either using GUI on IIS (...

Execute script after deployment - MSDeploy

Is there a way to trigger a custom script (or open a windows app) after a user imports the deployment package using IIS and completes the installation? Any help? ...

Does MSDeploy require .net 4?

Does MSDeploy require .net 4? http://www.iis.net/download/webdeploy ...

Set web package destination folder in TFS 2010 build definition

Hi! We have to web projects that we want to generate web deploy packages for on nightly build. One MVC2 project and on WCF project. We have a script that listens for new versions of these packages and deploys them as there are dropped new versions. The problem with this is that the packages gets deployed inside the TFS deploy folders, ...

Get IIS website into version control

The Problem: Until now, I create a IIS website/app using the IIS manager tool. The problem is that changes to a IIS website aren't documented as they should be. For example: when I update the URL Rewrite rules this changes should be documented in a version control solution. What is your solution to solve this issus? ...

Set Application Pool for Package using MSDEPLOY

I am deploying a website using MSDEPLOY so using something like the below code. "%ProgramFiles%\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy\msdeploy.exe" -verb:sync -source:package=WebAppServer.zip -dest:Auto -setParamFile="was_params.xml" -verbose > webappserversync.log Is there anyway to set the application pool ? I want to do this from the com...

How to stop the MSDeploy regKey provider from failing if the registry key doesn't exist

I am moving a lot of IIS websites using MSDeploy and I am running into an issue where I am trying to include 3 registry keys as part of the move, but all 3 registry keys don't always exist on each website. So the question is: Is there a way to get MSDeploy to move the registry keys if they are there on the source and silently skip them ...

Team Build: Publish locally using MSDeploy

I'm just getting started with the team build functionality and I'm finding the sheer amount of things required to do something pretty simple a bit overwhelming. My setup at the moment is a solution with a web app, an assembly app and a test app. The web app has a PublishProfile set up which publishes via the filesystem. I have a TFS bui...

MSDeploy to install windows service?

Hi, We have a website which publishes events using NServiceBus. The site is deployed using msdeploy. We also have the NServiceBus.exe which should run as a windows service to subscribe to these events, and we'd like to deploy that as well. Is there any way to package the service as well as the website, so that it can be installed as ...