Nov 10, 2008
Overview 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...
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Filed under: IIS, Web Deployment, PDC
Oct 29, 2008
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...
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Filed under: IIS, Deployment, PDC
Oct 27, 2008
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...
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Filed under: IIS News, IIS, Deployment, Web Deployment, PDC
May 23, 2008
MSDeploy has two built-in general purpose rule handlers (for more information about rules, take a look at the core components of MS Deploy blog post) which can be used to create rules to skip sync/migrate of some object or to replace the source information...
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May 13, 2008
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...
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Filed under: IIS News, IIS, Deployment
Apr 14, 2008
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. http://technet.microsoft...
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Filed under: IIS, Deployment, Migration
Feb 26, 2008
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...
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Filed under: IIS, Deployment, Support
Feb 06, 2008
There are four concepts that are important for you to understand to be able to effectively use the new Microsoft Web Deployment Tool. 1. Providers Providers are pieces of code that provide data to the tool for various operations like sync , migrate ....
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Filed under: IIS News, IIS
Feb 02, 2008
Given that we have a metric ton of options :), I wanted to go through a couple common questions that our product support folks get. This is the first in a series of server administrator tasks I'll cover using MS Deploy. When our support folks learned...
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Filed under: IIS, Deployment, Walkthroughs
Jan 26, 2008
Just a quick note to let everyone know that we updated the walkthroughs slightly based on comments we've gotten, and also turned them into .rtf files. The link to download is http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8100895 and they've been updated on the download...
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Filed under: IIS, Deployment, Walkthroughs
Jan 22, 2008
Welcome to the Microsoft Web Deployment Team blog - we hope you will find this a helpful place to get the inside scoop plus plenty of tips and tricks from the team who is building the Web Deployment Tool for IIS. So what is this new deployment tool? You...
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Filed under: IIS News, IIS, Deployment