Comments on: Microsoft Web Deploy – Bad Application, or the Worst Application?

By: PlanReduc

PlanReduc — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:41:32 +0000

to complete my message, for avoid error after migration, you must set before use ms deploy all your pool to CLASSIC and no managed code !

if you still have issues, last way is to use appcmd for migration.

By: PlanReduc

PlanReduc — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 07:57:27 +0000

i’ve got this error too, i have created the key as you explain, was ok, and got wrong error with count… this come because the path is empty in the pack – archive.xml :

-rootWebConfig32 path=”/” MSDeploy.path=”2″ MSDeploy.MSDeployLinkName=”Child4″ …. … ..-
-location path=”EMPTY !” MSDeploy.MSDeployKeyAttributeName=”path”-

after that the importation was successfull but still not work in IIS, got error… so i have moved files from my other server :

C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\administration.config
C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config

and now everything works !

By: PlanReduc

PlanReduc — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 07:56:04 +0000

i’ve got this error too, i have created the key as you explain, was ok, and got wrong error with count… this come because the path is empty here :

after that the importation was successfull but still not work in IIS, got error… so i have moved files from my other server :

C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\administration.config
C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config

and now everything works !

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 07:02:52 +0000

Glad you got it working, and good to know that’s a potential solution!

I wish I could say that had been my problem, but IIRC I installed it on both servers from the same MSI.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 03:33:25 +0000

I had the same pathetic error message when attempting to do a full server export/import between two 2008 R2 machines, both with IIS 7.5. As it turned out, the servers had different versions of the Web Deploy tool (source=2.1,target=3.5); So, I had to downgrade the target server to version 2.1. Once I did that, the import ran successfully.

By: Siamak

Siamak — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:09:23 +0000

So frustrating!
You never see these kind of problems in Linux.
Bad Design , Bad Architect

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:14:50 +0000

Phew, I’m glad I’m not the only one. Sometimes when I post these rants I wonder if the problem was user error the whole time.

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:07:32 +0000

I couldn’t agree more! Went through the same steps as you. How difficult can it be to port from once instance of IIS to another?! So frustrating!