Good News for ASP.Net Developers
This is yet another exiting development by Microsoft. I just came across with an article about this tool in the IIS main web site and thought of sharing the information with the readers of this blog.
Overview
Last week Microsoft has launched the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool as a Community Technical Preview (CTP), which provides deployment and migration support for IIS versions 6.0 and 7.0. This tool incorporates many features that enable web server administrators to deploy, sync and migrate websites, including configuration, content, SSL certificates and other types of data associated with a Web server.
This tool can be used on Windows Server 2008 and Internet Information Services 7.0 as well as Windows Server 2003 and Internet Information Services 6.0.
Features
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Provides administrators with a way to quickly synchronize a site or server and deploy changes to existing sites and servers
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Provides administrators with a way to migrate sites or entire servers from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0, including their settings and content
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Allows administrators to check what components are installed on the source server. I.e. to check what components to be installed or requirement to have an advanced installation in IIS 7.0
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Troubleshooting and Validation Features
Support
For support in this tool please refer to the support forum, or download the documentation here.
Requirements
The following prerequisites must be fulfilled in order to install the tool:
- You must be using Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008.
- The .NET 2.0 Framework SP1 or greater must be installed.
- Internet Information Services 6.0 or 7.0 must be installed in order to perform operations on IIS.
- You must install the tool as an administrator. If User Access Control (UAC) is enabled, you must use the “Run as Administrator” option when installing.
Download
You can download the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool here.
References
IIS
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