Between all the announcements about the release of Visual Studio 2012, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and so on, I noticed one small announcement: the release of Web Deploy 3.
Web Deploy 3.0 can be installed using these links x86/x64. More details on installation can be found in Installing & Configuring Web Deploy tutorial.
Let’s have a look at some of the new features available in Web Deploy 3:
- Deployment & Migration to IIS8: migrate to IIS8 from IIS 6, IIS7 and IIS7.5.
- Publishing to Microsoft Azure Websites: deploy websites to Microsoft’s new Azure Websites offering.
- Incremental Database Publishing using Data Tier Application (DAC) framework: incremental data sync and SQL Azure download using SQL DACPAC framework.
- Automatic Backup: allows server administrators to configure servers in such a way that each publish will automatically generate a backup and store it on server. If you need to roll back or go to a previous version, you will be able to do it without involving server administrator.
- PowerShell Cmdlets: PowerShell Cmdlets for common Web Deploy tasks.
- Improved Parameterization
- Enabling Application Offline: automatically drops a blank App_Offline.htm file into the root of the application folder.
- Changing authentication mode for a given website
- Automatically disabling proxy settings
- Support for IPv6-style bindings in certificate sync logic
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