Comments on: Using MSDeploy to automate your Enterprise Application remote deployments.

By: Junk

Junk — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:13:00 +0000

Fix your spelling errors…

By: msdeploy_dev

msdeploy_dev — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:54:00 +0000

If performing this step seems like a hassle:

>> We do have to install MSDeploy on each server

Try adding ,tempagent=true after computername=${deploy.server} in your command-line.

Hope that helps!

By: mendicant

mendicant — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:34:40 +0000

Eric, we do the exact same thing. Packaged deployment script + Nant binaries.

By: erichexter

erichexter — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:08:52 +0000

@eddie, we currently use this for Hot deployments. I am looking at DropKick as a way for handling Cold deployments. see http://dropkick.googlecode.com

@rob .. you can find MSDeploy in the Web Deployment tool from here http://www.iis.net/extensions/WebDeploymentTool

@mendicant we use a seperate nant script for deployements that is really light and kept seperate from our build scripts. so part of our deployment package does include the nant binaries… i am looking to get away from this and use DropKick instead..

@peter I have exes in my sync, but I am using the Service and not IIS as the end point on the servers. I have made this work with nant deployments, msi, and exes.

By: Peter Seale

Peter Seale — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:19:39 +0000

Nice. If nothing else I like the file syncing aspect, and the ability to circumvent virus scanner rules (I’ve been burned by them multiple times; remotely copying EXEs to a computer is a no-no apparently)

By: mendicant

mendicant — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:16:12 +0000

When we deploy, we have a set of nant tasks that gets run that does a similar set of steps to what you’ve done above….

Short story, we remove the site and then recreate it pointing to new binaries, all within NAnt.

I can see how deploying to dev would be really nice with this though. Have MSDeploy copy over our sql migration, and run it (nant). Then copy over our Web migration and run it (also nant).

By: Rod Trent

Rod Trent — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:12:09 +0000

Link for more info?

By: Eddie Cianci

Eddie Cianci — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:56:45 +0000

Hi Eric,

Do you use MSDeploy for hot & cold deployments (upgrade vs install)? Currently when we do a cold deployment, installing an app on a server for the 1st time, we manually create the Application Pool & Virtual Directory in IIS.