What's the best way to deploy an executable process on a web server?

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The original question:

The title of this question might be a bit clumsily phrased, but here\'s the situation:

I have a .NET web project deployed on my server.

Answer 1

To me, your problem sounds a lot like the deployment problem SharePoint solves through their Timer service running in each WFE, stsadm enqueuing admin tasks, that service dequeuing and running them etc.

What I would do is to

• write a service running in each WFE
• write a small custom "stsadm" tool so you can enqueue tasks, specify when they need to run, etc.

Another approach: what about using the plain vanilla Windows Task Scheduler? Look here, you can easily enqueue tasks remotely for ex.