IIS7 + related answer …. Ok – here’s what I ended up doing. More or less, following the post by Simon Weaver in this thread/question. But when it comes to the MSBuild settings .. most people here are using following setting: /p:MSDeployPublishMethod=RemoteAgent which is NOT RIGHT for IIS7. Using this setting means TFS tries to … Read more
I had the same problem with Web Deploy 3.5 when I installed it with “Web Platform Installer 5.0” When I tried to publish from Visual Studio I got this error: ————————— Microsoft Visual Studio ————————— Could not connect to the remote computer (“10.0.3.102”) using the specified process (“Web Management Service”) because the server did not … Read more
I answered a similar but different question at How do you include additional files using VS2010 web deployment packages?. In your scenario you are using post build event, I would recommend dropping the post build event and implement your actions using your own MSBuild targets instead of post build event. Below you’ll find the text … Read more
In VS 2012 (as well as the publish updates available in the Azure SDK for VS 2010) we have simplified command line publishing for web projects. We have done that by using Publish Profiles. In VS for a web project you can create a publish profile using the publish dialog. When you create that profile … Read more
If you go into IIS, Click on the server node in the “Connections” list, Double click “Management Service” then you are taken to a screen which has an “Enable remote connections” check box. This checkbox (and the rest of the sreen) maybe greyed out because the service is running. Just click the “Stop” link in … Read more
Great question. I just posted a very detailed blog entry about this at Web Deployment Tool (MSDeploy) : Build Package including extra files or excluding specific files. Here is the synopsis. After including files, I show how to exclude files as well. Including Extra Files Including extra files into the package is a bit harder … Read more
In case someone else is having the same issues than what I am having, I also got the same 404 error. The quickest way I found to check was to go on the server itself, and open up “https://<servername>:8172/MsDeploy.axd”. Chrome & Firefox just showed a blank page, so I had to use the Network tab … Read more
I got it mostly working without a custom msbuild script. Here are the relevant TeamCity build configuration settings: Artifact paths: %system.teamcity.build.workingDir%\MyProject\obj\Debug\Package\PackageTmp Type of runner: MSBuild (Runner for MSBuild files) Build file path: MyProject\MyProject.csproj Working directory: same as checkout directory MSBuild version: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 MSBuild ToolsVersion: 4.0 Run platform: x86 Targets: Package Command line … Read more