Owais Shaikh's Blog Posts

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Web Deploy API Web Application
Mar 08, 2010

This is a sample web application that was used in some demos to demonstrate using web deployment tool. It has the following features: 1. A simple portal for non admins (such as developers) to submit request to deploy web application...

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MSDeploy , XPath and XSL: Part III: Auto generate setParamFile from package and batch file to migrate apps to sites
Sep 25, 2009

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...

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MSDeploy , XPath and XSL: Part II: Generating formatted output
Sep 25, 2009

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...

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MSDeploy , XPath and XSL: Part 1: Getting information
Sep 25, 2009

Now that MSDeploy RTW has been officially released, I want to discuss just some of the few great features it has. Getting Information: The tool can be used in great many ways to get remote or local system information using xpath...

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Web Server Change Notification or Web Server Compare or MS Deploy UI for Multi Server Sync
Apr 26, 2009

Technorati Tags: web Deployment Tool , web server compare tool , msdeploy UI , web server change notification , multi server sync Introduction: If you are interested in  any of the following then you can read on: Getting...

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Writing Custom Rules for Web Deployment Tool
Mar 03, 2009

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...

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