May 01, 2009
One of our team members has built a pretty cool sample UI that allows syncing of multiple web servers and also using file change notifications to trigger syncs. Take a look at the sample at http://blogs.iis.net/moshaikh/archive/2009/04/26/web-server-change...
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Tags: IISWeb Deployment
Apr 29, 2009
During the RC release, we published a custom provider that will help you sync MySql databases. The limitaions of the provider was syncing from archive/package and syncing over the agent, since DeploymentObject.GetStream() method was not public in that...
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Apr 23, 2009
There has been a lot of buzz around the way skip rules have changed in the RC version of MSDeploy. Here is a blog post that will explain what has changed and what are the current limitations. Currently there are two different features in MS Deploy that...
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Apr 17, 2009
We have a new release of the RC1 build to fix a couple issues that people found. We recommend that folks download the new version as it fixes some important issues. How can I get the new build? Just go to our download links for x86 and x64 . How does...
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Tags: IIS NewsIISWeb DeploymentIIS News Item
Mar 30, 2009
Overview In the recent RC version of MSDeploy, we shipped the dbMySql provider. The dbMySql povider can be used to sync a MySql script to a database. It cannot be used for initial deployment of a MySql database to an empty database or dumping a MySql...
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Mar 18, 2009
The Web Deployment team is excited to announce that RC1 shipped this morning! We now have a release candidate that can be used for production testing and supports many new features. So what did we add, you ask? The biggest feature is our integration with...
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Tags: IIS NewsDeploymentMigrationWeb DeploymentMSDeploy
Feb 16, 2009
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...
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Tags: IISDeploymentWeb Deployment
Feb 04, 2009
We briefly mentioned that Visual Studio 2010 is integrating the Web Deployment Tool, but we didn't really go into details. Here's a great blog post that covers the highlights of VS 2010 deployment features, not just MS Deploy, but a lot of other cool...
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Tags: IIS NewsDeploymentWeb DeploymentVSVisual Studio
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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Tags: IISWeb DeploymentPDC
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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Tags: IISDeploymentPDC
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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Tags: IIS NewsIISDeploymentWeb DeploymentPDC
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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Tags: IIS NewsIISDeployment
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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Tags: IISDeploymentMigration
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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Tags: IISDeploymentSupport