We practice continuous deployment with TFS (2008) and are looking for a nice way to handle IIS settings changes. MSDeploy seems like it should be the way to handle this, but after much reading and searching, I haven’t found a good answer.
The problem with MSDeploy, as I see it, is that you need to create a deployment package using an existing IIS website. I would like to be able to have the appropriate IIS configuration for the website in source control and have the build create the package.
The only way I can see to do this is to hand craft the archive.xml file. Is my thinking correct or is there a better way?
I ended up using powershell web administration module (with PSake for the build) to do this. I would still prefer to do this in a declarative manner.