Script for packaging and deployment of ASP.NET applications to IIS via Web Deploment Tools

Deploy.ps1

Properties {
    $Build_dir = Split-Path $psake.build_script_file
    $Packages_dir = Join-Path $build_dir 'Packages'
    $MsDeploy_dir = Join-Path $env:ProgramFiles 'IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy'

    $SiteName = 'www.example.com'
    $Package = "$SiteName.zip"
    $Dest = 'hosting.com'
    $UserName = 'IIS User Name'
    $Pwd = 'Secret Password'
}

Task Deploy {
    Deploy-Package "$build_dir\Web\Web.csproj" Release $Package $Dest $SiteName $UserName $Pwd
}  

function Deploy-Package {
    param($Project, $Configuration, $PkgLocation, $DestServer, $SiteName, $UserName, $Password)
    
    Write-Host Cleaning project files -ForegroundColor Cyan
    Exec { MsBuild $Project /t:Clean /p:Configuration=$Configuration /v:q }
    
    Write-Host "Staring building project $Project" -ForegroundColor Cyan
    Exec { MsBuild $Project /t:Build /p:Configuration=$Configuration /v:q }
    
    Write-Host "Starting packaging project $Project" -ForegroundColor Cyan
    Exec { MsBuild $Project /t:Package /p:Configuration=$Configuration /p:PackageLocation=$PkgLocation /v:m }
    
    Write-Host "Starting deployment site $SiteName to $DestServer" -ForegroundColor Cyan
    $serverUrl = "https://${DestServer}:8172/msdeploy.axd?site=$SiteName"
    $dest = "auto,computerName=$serverUrl,username=$UserName,password=$Password,authtype=basic"
    Exec { & $MsDeploy_Dir\MsDeploy -verb:sync -source:package=$PkgLocation -dest:$dest -allowUntrusted }
}

Prerequisites:

• Web Deployment Tools on both client and server
• Configured IIS server for deployment http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/516/configure-the-web-deployment-handler/
• Configured Packaging in Web project in Visual Studio 2010

Great stuff

How would you deal wih a space in the source path i.e. $build_dir\deploy this\web

It is quoted, it should just work.

Unfortunately msdeploy doesn't handle spaces in path when invoked from powershell even though Exec command tries to quote them. I tried many thinkable solutions how to escape/quote paths with space, but I had to use this nasty solution to workaround the problem:

Exec { cmd.exe /C $("msdeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:contentPath="{0}" -dest:package="{1}\{2}.zip"" -f $destinationDir, $destinationBackupDir, $backupFileName ) }