MSDeploy batch file does not handle quotes anymore

Question

As part of our build process we deploy our web applications using MSDeploy. This worked perfect until a few weeks ago (I think when we updated our build/TFS server to SP1 of

Answer 1

I was able to work around this issue by surrounding the whole argument in quotes and the inner argument in single quotes, ie:

.\Deploy.cmd /y 
  /m:https://SERVER:8172/msdeploy.axd 
  -allowUntrusted 
  "-postSync:runCommand='echo hello'"

Answer 2

This is a bug introduced in the SP1 release. You can work around it by editing %ProgramFiles(x86)%\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets (note 64-bit path). Change lines 3238-3258 to match the respective contents in the old deploy.cmd file; the diff should only be like 3 lines, removing _ArgCurrentOriginal and using _ArgCurrent.

There's also a KB recently published on the issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2537134. This includes an updated .targets file so you don't have to make the edit yourself.