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, but we’ve added web application packaging and deployment...

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. We have some great news being announced...

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 things we've worked on is the flexibility...

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.com/en-us/mscomops/cc424869.aspx BTW, the new...

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 the forums, but the team is pretty active...

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 that the tool will help you compare two web sites...

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 pages. Thanks!

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 may have read Scott Guthrie’s post about the future...

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...

On various occations it may be necessary to deploy your DHTML Visual WebGui application with different extension than the standard .WGX extension. One such common scenario is when you are deploying to a web-hosting company (like GoDaddy for instance), which is not willing to add the necessary Application...