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If you want to use the Web Deployment Tool with PowerShell, look no further than our own tester James Cook's PowerShell blog post . He shows how to invoke our deployment APIs through PowerShell to perform a local sync of content. In future posts, he plans to add remoting and other capabilities. And let us know if you want to use Web Deploy with PowerShell, we're interested in hearing about what tasks you'd like to accomplish and why! Read More...
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 migrate web applications on IIS, and perform granular operations like changing IP bindings, site names and changing file structures on the fly. You can also create a new provider to sync a new type of resource. Command-line tool (msdeploy.exe) that allows you to perform all the same operations available in the APIs. User interface built into IIS Manager 7.0 on Vista, Windows 2008 and Windows 7 that allows you to create packages (zip files containing IIS config, content, databases and more) and install them. Delegation framework and service built into IIS 7.0 that allows you to delegate tasks like installing applications and databases without requiring them to be administrators on the box. Remote administrative service that works on IIS 6...
The Web Deployment team is excited to announce that RC1 shipped this morning! We now have a release candidate that can be used for production testing and supports many new features. So what did we add, you ask? The biggest feature is our integration with the Web Platform Installer , or WebPI. Now you can use WebPI to seamlessly install community web applications DotNetNuke or WordPress on your machine including all of their dependencies such as IIS, ASP.NET, PHP, etc., using the Web Deployment Tool to perform the application install. You can even submit your own applications into the Windows Web Application Gallery so they can be included in WebPI! Beyond that we have a bunch of features as well as a lot of performance and stabilization work. Web application packaging and deployment additions: Added the ability to create packages by hand without requiring the Web Deployment Tool to be installed. Enhanced the iisApp provider so that IIS application packages can be installed on IIS 6.0 (Windows...
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 RegEx match. There are a lot of parameters you can set to scope the rules, and then the added complexity of regular expressions. So I wanted to post some of my favorite rules (not in priority order ;-)) for the command-line and also show the same rule for the PowerShell cmdlets. If there are more rules that we should post as examples, please let me know! 1. Replace the home directory of a site or application msdeploy -verb:sync -source:archiveDir=c:\App1 -dest:appHostconfig=MySite/App1 -replace:objectName=virtualDirectory,scopeAttributeName=physicalPath,match=c:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\app1,replace=c:\dest\app1 I have an archive with an application that points to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\app1. I already have content in that location so when I sync, I...
We briefly mentioned that Visual Studio 2010 is integrating the Web Deployment Tool, but we didn't really go into details. Here's a great blog post that covers the highlights of VS 2010 deployment features, not just MS Deploy, but a lot of other cool stuff as well! http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2009/02/04/web-deployment-with-vs-2010-and-iis.aspx Read More...
I’m excited to announce the immediate availability of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer v 1.0 . The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that makes it very easy to download and install Microsoft's entire Web Platform in one step, including IIS, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework. Using the Web Platform Installer’s user interface, you can choose to install either specific products or the entire Microsoft Web Platform onto your computer. The Web PI also helps keep your products up to date by always offering the latest additions to the Web Platform. Web PI 1.0 supports Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista and of course Windows 2008. Auto-update your Release Candidate build! One of the cool new features we put into the Release Candidate is the ability of Web PI to upgrade itself. Try it today – if you installed the Web PI RC release in November or December, simply launch the tool again...
Choices abound for those looking for a place to run Web applications on Windows. The purpose of this blog post is to show a quick walkthrough of how to setup your first Windows computer in the cloud on Amazon EC2. If you’re already familiar with hosting and the cloud, skip the next few paragraphs. The traditional approach is to use a Windows hosting provider, like DiscountASP.NET , MaximumASP.com , CrystalTech.com , etc. These long-time Windows hosting providers offer a flat monthly fee for shared (Web site) and dedicated server (full server) offerings ranging from a few dollars a month to a few hundred dollars a month. This works great for anyone who wants to set up everything from a simple family or community Web site to a small business or low traffic corporate site that can run on one server. If your site really takes off, and you want to scale it out onto many servers, you can of course pay for additional servers, and for the consulting services...
I’m excited to announce the availability of the Release Candidate version of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI). Web PI is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including IIS, ASP.NET, Visual Web Developer Express and SQL Server, along with a lot of cool IIS extensions like URL rewrite and ASP.NET MVC . Web PI offers a simple experience for downloading and installing the entire stack through a single installer to help you obtain the software you need to build and run a complete Web solution on the Microsoft Web platform, whether you are using Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2008. Run Web PI to get started, and then run it again anytime to check for new extensions to the platform. Every time Web PI is run it checks online to ensure the most current versions and new additions to the Microsoft Web Platform are downloaded. Give Web PI a try today! Read More...
Every time I talk with customers in meetings or at conferences I’m struck by how many cool amazing new capabilities IIS7 has. I can go on for literally hours talking about the new features and benefits, and showing demos. And with each new IIS7 Extension , the list of new features just gets bigger and bigger. A few months ago I realized we didn’t have the top list of features written up anywhere, and so we started the process of distilling down the list to the top 10. We almost made it! We ended up with the top 12 reasons you should get IIS7 today. Check them out here: http://www.iis.net/getstarted Over the next few weeks we’ll be adding a cool demo for each of the reasons to show the features in action. Be sure to check back soon! Read More...
I’m excited to announce that IIS has released a Release Candidate of the new IIS7 Application Request Routing (ARR) extension! ARR enables Web server administrators to easily scale-out Web applications and improve reliability through HTTP-level, rule-based routing and load balancing. Read more about the cool new features in this new release and check out the updated documentation . Download the RC release: Microsoft Application Request Routing for IIS 7 RC x86 Microsoft Application Request Routing for IIS 7 RC x64 For those who are new to IIS7’s ARR module, here are the benefits it provides: Balance loads more efficiently across servers to maximize resource utilization By taking advantage of Application Request Routing, administrators have the ability to create powerful routing rules based on URL, HTTP headers and server variables to determine the most appropriate Web application server for each request. ARR makes request routing decisions at the application level...
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