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.
Also, we've gotten some great feedback from folks testing the tool and really appreciate it. Some of the requests have included the ability to ignore files whose only changes are attributes (like write time, etc.). Some of the good bugs found have been with script maps and dependency checks. We're spending a lot of time to improve these areas, this has come directly from customers trying it out.
Keep that feedback coming. This is the best time to request changes and influence our first version. We really want to know if the providers that we have are a good set, that we haven't missed any critical ones and we'd love to get some customers trying it on more complex applications.
Thanks again to everyone who is posting questions and helping us test!