Microsoft Web Deployment Team Blog

Web Deploy V3 RTM is now available. Plese follow our release announcement here

We are happy to announce that we have just released the Release Candidate for Web Deploy 3.0. You can download the x86 or x64 versions.

How to set up your own WebMatrix server and publish to it using Web Deploy: http://www.bilalaslam.com/setting-up-your-own-webmatrix-server/

If you have an existing web site, you can open it in Microsoft WebMatrix. There are some caveats (which I have noted below), but overall it works quite well. Let’s suppose you have a Wordpress site:

We are happy to announce that we have just released a refresh of Web Deploy 2.0 for MIX ‘11. Our goal for this release was to make Web Deploy easier to install and manage. You can download the x86 or x64 versions.

Yishai Galatzer wrote an informative blog post about what to do if you see errors in the Publish Compatibility feature of WebMatrix. May be relevant to you if you use Web Deploy protocol to publish from WebMatrix: http://blogs.iis.net/yigalatz/archive/2011/02/04/compatibility-checking-in-webmatrix-when-the-checker-reports-failures.aspx

Web Deploy 2.0 has been out for a few weeks now. If you don’t have it, I encourage you to go get it now. I’ve been meaning to do a blog post on what’s new … so here it is:

One of our Web Deploy testers was running into a bizarre issue: even though she had set up delegation rules current (and debugged them using failed request tracing logs), she was still seeing an error like this when publishing a site from Microsoft WebMatrix using Web Deploy: