Owais Shaikh's Blog
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Migrate your IIS 6/7/8 server to azure websites in a few clicks
Have you been looking for a way to migrate your websites from your old Windows 2003 servers or any IIS6+ webserver to Azure Websites? Do you want to test how your sites work on Azure but don't know an easy way to try that? Do you have a web server farm that you've been maintaining for years and have been looking for an easy way to reduce the cost without paying a lot of money to make the jump?
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Web Deploy API Web Application
This is a sample web application that was used in some demos to demonstrate using web deployment tool. It has the following features:
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MSDeploy , XPath and XSL: Part III: Auto generate setParamFile from package and batch file to migrate apps to sites
MSdeploy along with XSL is the way to go if you want to simplify many of the routine tasks that one needs to do. Two of the common scenarios are listed below. Before we start, you can download msxsl for free from here and the web deployment tool (msdeploy) RTW from here (x86 / x64 )
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MSDeploy , XPath and XSL: Part II: Generating formatted output
Using xsl and msxsl with msdeploy you can generate formatted html logs. It gets even better when you use the API; you can generate better organized logs with custom messages to suit your needs. Before we start, you can download msxsl for free from here and the web deployment tool (msdeploy) from here (x86 / x64 )
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MSDeploy , XPath and XSL: Part 1: Getting information
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Web Server Change Notification or Web Server Compare or MS Deploy UI for Multi Server Sync
If you are interested in any of the following then you can read on:
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Writing Custom Rules for Web Deployment Tool
One of the users posted a question on the blog that he is trying to sync two servers which are being independently modified by users of the two servers. Thus he wants the two servers to be synced using MS Deploy but at the same time wants to exclude the files that are newer at the destination.