Bill Staples posted an important annoucment about the availability of the Web Deployment tool release Beat 2.
When Bill says something like this "It is one of the fundamental building blocks that IIS will be building on the next several years.", that means "Hey you - IIS admin - pay attention to this cause it's going to REALLY important and some very cool features that you can't live without".
He goes on to say that current features include:
Migrate entire servers or individual sites from one machine to another (IIS6 –> IIS7)
Sync Servers, Sites, and Applications (IIS6 –> IIS6, and IIS7 –> IIS7)
Create offline packages that can be used as backups, version control, and deployment units
as well as:
- Support for SQL Server 2008 database deployment with sites
- Integration into the IIS Manager
- Upcoming support for Web Deploy built into Vistual Studio 2008
Check it out!
http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/10/30/iis-web-deployment-tool-beta-2-released.aspx