How can I get TFS2010 to run MSDEPLOY for me through MSBUILD?
- by Simon_Weaver
There is an excellent PDC talk available here which describes the new MSDEPLOY features in Visual Studio 2010 - as well as how to deploy an application within TFS.
You can use MSBUILD within TFS2010 to call through to MSDEPLOY to deploy your package to IIS. This is done by means of parameters to MSBUILD.
The talk explains some of the command line parameters such as :
/p:DeployOnBuild
/p:DeployTarget=MsDeployPublish
/p:CreatePackageOnPublish=True
/p:MSDeployPublishMethod=InProc
/p:MSDeployServiceURL=localhost
/p:DeployIISAppPath="Default Web Site"
But where is the documentation for this - I can't find any?
I've been spending all day trying to get this to work and can't quite get it right and keep ending up with various errors. If I run the package's cmd file it deploys perfectly.
But I want to get the whole deployment running through msbuild using these arguments and not a separate call to msdeploy or running the package .cmd file. How can I do this?
PS. Yes I do have the Web Deployment Agent Service running. I also have the management service running under IIS. I've tried using both.
Args I'm using :
/p:DeployOnBuild=True
/p:DeployTarget=MsDeployPublish
/p:Configuration=Release
/p:CreatePackageOnPublish=True
/p:DeployIisAppPath=staging.example.com
/p:MsDeployServiceUrl=https://staging.example.com:8172/msdeploy.axd
/p:AllowUntrustedCertificate=True
giving me :
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets (2660): VsMsdeploy failed.(Remote agent (URL https://staging.example.com:8172/msdeploy.axd?site=staging.example.com) could not be contacted. Make sure the remote agent service is installed and started on the target computer.) Error detail: Remote agent (URL https://staging.example.com:8172/msdeploy.axd?site=staging.example.com) could not be contacted. Make sure the remote agent service is installed and started on the target computer. An unsupported response was received. The response header 'MSDeploy.Response' was '' but 'v1' was expected. The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.
