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burnt1ce
burnt1ce

Reputation: 14897

Automate Application Installation with Powershell

I need to write a powershell script that would install my team's web application and all the web application's dependencies (ie: telerik, asp.net mvc3, third-party assemblies) with a single click of a button. Is this possible? Or does someone have to click "Next" to go through an installation wizard?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2391

Answers (1)

x0n
x0n

Reputation: 52420

Sounds like a job for MSDeploy. This ships with PowerShell cmdlets (and a regular console executable.)

http://www.iis.net/download/webdeploy

Features

  • Seamless integration with IIS 7.0 Manager and Visual Studio 2010 interface for creating packages and deploying them onto a machine, both locally and remotely.
  • Seamless integration with the Web Platform Installer to install community web applications simply and easily.

Web application packaging:

  • Ability to package a Web application or an entire site, including the associated databases.

  • Ability to package ACLs, COM, GAC and registry settings.

  • Supports both live servers and zipped packages as a source or destination.

Web application deployment:

  • Administrative privileges are not required in order to deploy Web applications.

  • Ability to add powerful parameters to change text in files when they are deployed (such as prompting to replace a connection string when deploying from QA to staging environments).

  • Integration with the IIS 7.0 Web Management Service (WMSVC) for remote deployment by non-administrators.

  • Server administrators have granular control over the operations that can be performed and can delegate tasks to non-administrators.

Web server migration and synchronization:

  • Ability to synchronize or migrate the entire Web server, a Web site or application. Synchronizes only the data that has changed.

  • Ability to detect missing dependencies during synchronization.

  • Automatically gathers content, IIS configuration, SSL certificates and ASP.NET configuration when you sync a Web site.

In addition to the IIS Manager and Visual Studio 10, tasks can be performed using the command-line or public APIs.

-Oisn

Upvotes: 5

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