Sep 24, 2009
After 2 years of development and lots of customer feedback, we are proud to announce that the Web Deployment Tool has shipped the RTW of our version 1.0! In version 1.0, we have the following components: Powerful APIs that allow you to deploy, sync and...
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Tags: IISDeploymentMigrationWeb Deployment
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
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 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
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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Tags: IISDeploymentWalkthroughs