Breaking MsBuild package & deploy into separate MsBuild and MsDeploy commands

Question

I\'m having a few problems breaking out an MsBuild package+deploy command into two separate commands. (I need to do this to pass additional parameters to MsDeploy).

The

Answer 1

I've got this fixed now - I needed a different command to the one the automatically generated .cmd file was using, but comparing the two allowed me to fix it up (thanks @Vishal R. Joshi)

The differences I needed was:

• basic authentication
• allow untrusted certificates
• ?site=staging.webserver on the end of the MsBuild.axd path, as with my original command
• override the IIS Web App name that is set in the params file
• enable the do not delete rule

The winning command is as follows:

msdeploy 
 -verb:sync 
 -allowUntrusted 
 -source:package='src\WebProject\obj\Deploy-Staging\Package\WebProject.zip'  
 -dest:auto,ComputerName=
  'https://192.168.0.1:8172/MsDeploy.axd?site=staging.website.com',
  username='staging-deploy',password='xyz',authType='basic',includeAcls='false'
  setParamFile:
    "src\WebProject\obj\Deploy-Staging\Package\WebProject.SetParameters.xml"
 -setParam:name='IIS Web Application Name',value='staging.website.com'
 -enableRule:DoNotDeleteRule
 -disableLink:AppPoolExtension -disableLink:ContentExtension 
 -disableLink:CertificateExtension

Hope this helps someone!