Microsoft Web Deployment Team Blog Posts

How to write skip and replace rules for MSDeploy

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...

Web Deployment Tool Beta 1 (Go Live) just released

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...

Microsoft.com uses the Web Deployment Tool

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...

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...

Core components of Microsoft Web Deployment tool

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 ....

Using MS Deploy to compare two web sites

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...

Web Deployment walkthroughs are now in RTF format

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...

Welcome to the Web Deployment Team blog

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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I'm a Program Manager on the IIS team and I work on the coolest part! Web deployment and migration for IIS 6.0 and 7.0. Check out our team blog at http://blogs.iis.net/msdeploy. I also spent several years prior as an IT Pro in the hosting space, managing web servers and helping manage other technologies like ISA, Active Directory, etc. Check out the hosting blog for news, tips and more at http://blogs.iis.net/hosterposter.

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