Web Deployment Publish parameters.xml to match windows authentication providers

Question

I have a Web Deployment publish profile in my visual studio project. I have multiple environments, which in one I use NTLM provider and on the other I user Negotiate:Kerberos provider on the windows authentication mode.

My question is: How can I set the parameters.xml "match" value in order to set the right provider when using msdeploy.

The provider tag is as follows:

<add value="NTLM" />

Or instead:

<add value="Negotiate:Kerberos" />

Is it even possible to pull this of via parameters.xml only? If not what is the right way of doing so?

Answer 1

Found a workaround.

At the parameters.xml I created a <parameter> element with the following:

<parameterEntry kind="XmlFile" scope="\\web\.config$" match="/configuration/system.webServer/security/authentication/windowsAuthentication/providers/add/@value" />

This parameterEntry will match the providers.

Afterwards, at the deploy time, the value that will be replacing the matched value in the parameterEntry will be: Negotiate:Kerberos.

In this way, I managed to replace the values. Currently it's kind of problematic to place multiple providers, but I think it can be accomplished with matchers and the parameters.xml by changing it a little bit.