[trezor]

I'm sure MSDeploy is nice when it works. Serious emphasis on "when it works". I spent an entire evening trying to get MSDeploy to push something from my local machine to my VPS. Conditions: The VPS is remote and not a member of my home-domain, but the path between them is 100% whitelisted in all intermediate firewalls.

How hard can that be?

Evidently very hard. Despite spending the entire evening trying to get them to communicate and push files, it simply didn't happen. In the end I ended up writing my own deployment-system based on source-control, Samba and rsync in Bash. It was easier, it worked and I know why it works.

If that is easier to get working than a "one click" solution, the authors of said solution better get a bigger button. I can't seem to click this one.

[jimfl]

Oh, thank goodness. Just yesterday I tried to deploy 6 different apps from the IIS app gallery, with 0 successful deploys. I thought maybe I was starting to go retarded.

Apparently there are some bugs which prevent parameterized deploys from working properly. Also, the documentation for Microsoft.Web.Deployment is very poor.

[mountaineer]

I've had similar frustrations with msdeploy. Are you initializing the rsync/Bash from your local machine? What are you running on the server to receivie it?

[trezor]

It's all done by a bash-sc ript on an intermediate linux-shell which has access to source-control (perforce) and the server (via smb). I can post the script later if you are interested.