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MSDeploy is a tool developed by Microsoft, also known as 'Web Deploy'. It allows the simple deployment and configuration of applications being deployed to IIS.

MSDeploy is a tool developed by Microsoft, also known as 'Web Deploy'. It allows the simple deployment and configuration of applications being deployed to IIS.

It is installed as a service within IIS (v6 and above) and allows an SSL connection to be made from an MSDeploy client over HTTPS, typically on port 8172. Clients who have been authorised by the IIS administrator are permitted to carry out a number of actions on the server, including but not limited to:

  • Installing / Updating a .NET application
  • Deploying static content
  • Configuring the IIS server
  • Synchronising the configuration between two IIS servers
  • Setting directory permissions on the server
  • Deploying a database SQL script (MySQL, SQLite and 'Full SQL' supported)
  • Install .NET assemblies in the GAC
  • Manipulate server certificates

Full documentation is available at Technet with the latest version available at Microsoft.

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Migrating IIS 6 webserver to new IIS 6 server in 1 command?

In the midst of migrating one my IIS 6 web servers with 30 or so applications on it, to new hardware. Coming from a linux background, I'm very surprised as to how difficult this seems to be. Having played around with msdeploy, I came up with this…
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Is it possible to create a remote backup of a site with MSDeploy?

I'm currently using the package dest to create a backup of a site as follows: msdeploy.exe -source:appHostConfig="Default Web Site",computerName="https://server:8172/MSDeploy.axd?site=Default Web Site",userName="abc",password="xyz",authtype="basic"…
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msdeploy not copying files starting with a dot

Some of the files for the website I'm moving start with a dot, IE .htaccess or .hiddenFolder or anything similar to that. I'm trying to move these sites from IIS6 to IIS7 (there's hundreds of separate sites), but it won't copy these files and the…
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msdeploy.exe is erasing FTP permissions on a site it's been told to ignore

I'm using msdeploy.exe to duplicate our live web environment to an offsite disaster-recovery server. This offsite server also hosts an FTP site that we use for transferring database backups and logs. By default, a full webserver sync using MSDEPLOY…
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copy web site confiuration from IIS6 to IIS7 on a remote server

Hellp I have to copy all web sites on a windows 2003 box ( IIS 6 ) to a windows 2008 ( IIS7.5). there are about 1000 sites. I copy all data and content manually but what can I do for IIS configuration : I test several msdeply command but all of…
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I can access MsDeploy Agent Service without logging in!

I've installed MsDeploy Agent Service to a server. With msdeploy.exe i can dump and sync everything without entering any login or password from a client machine. I've deleted all credentials from the controlpanel so i can't be that. Is MsDeploy…
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Having trouble deploying tfs artifact to iis server with msdeploy

I'm building my projects artifact on a team foundation devops server. And in the release definition I want to deploy the artifact with msdeploy, but I'm getting "ERROR_USER_ANAUTHORIZED". I build the solution with msbuild and use these…
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