Microsoft Web Deployment Team Blog
News, updates and tips for using the Web Deployment Tool.
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Beta 2 skip and replace rules
We posted about skip and replace rules awhile back, but this is probably one of the more complex areas of MS Deploy. You have to understand our provider structure to figure out what type of object needs to be replaced, what attribute, and then write a RegEx match. There are a lot of parameters you can set to scope the rules, and then the added complexity of regular expressions. So I wanted to post some of my favorite rules (not in priority order ;-)) for the command-line and also show the same rule for the PowerShell cmdlets.
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Visual Studio 2010 deployment features (including MS Deploy)
We briefly mentioned that Visual Studio 2010 is integrating the Web Deployment Tool, but we didn't really go into details.
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The MSDeploy SQL Database Provider (dbFullSql)
The MSDeploy SQL Database provider, also called dbFullSql is desgined for first-time installation or deployment of SQL databases to a specified destination database. This blog will serve more as a first step towards using the dbFullSql provider that recently shipped with the Beta 2 version of MSDeploy. The provider can be used in the following ways
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The Web Deployment Tool Beta 2 is now available!
The IIS team is proud to announce the latest release of the Web Deployment Tool Beta 2, which includes significant new features for both IT professionals and developers. In addition to our existing functionality of server synchronization and migration, but we’ve added web application packaging and deployment with integration with IIS Manager and the upcoming Visual Studio 2010!
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The Web Deployment Tool is @ PDC!
Just wanted to let everyone know that a bunch of us from the IIS and MS Deploy team are here at PDC 2008 in sunny Los Angeles! If you're here for PDC, please stop by the Windows Server 2008 Web Platform booth or check out our great talks on web deployment. We have some great news being announced and we'd love to meet folks that are currently using or interested in using the Web Deployment Tool.
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How to write skip and replace rules for MSDeploy
Kanwal, Faith, Yamini
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Web Deployment Tool Beta 1 (Go Live) just released
Today the Web Deployment Team released the Beta 1 version of the deployment tool! If you're not familiar with the tool already, it is here to help you keep sites or servers in sync with IIS6 or IIS7, as well as migrate from IIS6 to IIS7. One of the key things we've worked on is the flexibility of the underlying framework, which you can see in the number of rules, the ability to configure dependencies and especially, the different providers that we support.
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Microsoft.com uses the Web Deployment Tool
The folks at Microsoft.com used the Web Deployment Tool to perform a migration of an IIS 6.0 server to IIS 7.0. They published a whitepaper describing their experiences with Tech Preview 1, available at their new operations site.
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What is the long-term support for the MS Deploy tool?
In the past week or so, we've gotten quite a few questions about our long-term support of the tool. Yes, the tool will be fully supported by Microsoft Product Support at RTW (release to web). Currently it is in Tech Preview so the only support comes from the forums, but the team is pretty active on the forums as we're getting questions.
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Core components of Microsoft Web Deployment tool
There are four concepts that are important for you to understand to be able to effectively use the new Microsoft Web Deployment Tool.