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 command that works fine looks like this:

msbuild "src\Solution.sln" 
  /P:Configuration=Deploy-Staging 
  /P:DeployOnBuild=True
  /P:DeployTarget=MSDeployPublish
  /P:MsDeployServiceUrl=https://192.168.0.1:8172/MsDeploy.axd
  /P:DeployIISAppPath=staging.website.com 
  /P:AllowUntrustedCertificate=True 
  /P:MSDeployPublishMethod=WmSvc 
  /P:CreatePackageOnPublish=True 
  /P:UserName=staging-deploy 
  /P:Password=xyz

The separated packaging command looks like this:

msbuild "src\Solution.sln" 
  /P:Configuration=Deploy-Staging 
  /P:DeployOnBuild=True
  /P:DeployTarget=Package 
  /P:_PackageTempDir=C:\temp\web

which works fine. But then the MsDeploy portion:

msdeploy 
 -verb:sync 
 -allowUntrusted 
 -usechecksum
 -source:manifest=
  'src\WebProject\obj\Deploy-Staging\Package\WebProject.SourceManifest.xml'  
 -dest:auto,ComputerName=
  'https://192.168.0.1:8172/MsDeploy.axd?site=staging.website.com',
   username='staging-deploy',password='xyz',authType='basic',includeAcls='false'
 -enableRule:DoNotDeleteRule

fails, with the following error in WmSvc.log

wmsvc.exe Error: 0 : Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation.
setAcl/C:\temp\web (Read)
ProcessId=15784
ThreadId=31
DateTime=2011-03-30T14:57:02.4867689Z
Timestamp=3802908721815
wmsvc.exe Error: 0 : Not authorized.
Details: No rule was found that could authorize user 'staging-deploy', 
         provider 'setAcl', operation 'Read', path 'C:\temp\web'.

(and several more Read/Write operations)

Something is clearly going wrong with the paths it's trying to access (as it works fine with the other method) - I'm not sure it's even trying to use the iisApp targeting correctly, and at the moment I don't think the correct web.config's will be deployed either.

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!