Migrating IIS 6 to IIS 7 with Web Deploy in Powershell

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I'm banging my head on this one. So want to migrate our entire IIS 6 server (dozens of sites) over to a brand new IIS 7 server using the Web Deploy tool in powershell... Here is what I've tried:

.\msdeploy -verb=sync -source=webserver=computername=$oldserver -dest=webserver=computername=$newserver

And I'm getting: Total changes: 0 (0 added, 0 deleted, 0 updated, 0 parameters changed, 0 bytes copied)

Am I missing something here?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:58:09Z

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It doesn't work because you have spaces in you command. This should work

$MSDEPLOY_EXE = "${env:ProgramFiles}\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3\msdeploy.exe"
&($MSDEPLOY_EXE) -verb:sync -source:webserver=computername=$oldserver -dest:webserver=computername=$newserver

I realize that the instructions are to replace a : with a = in Powershell but that is not correct in all cases. When you use the & sign you can call msdeploy as you would in the command prompt.

See here for more information How do you call msdeploy from powershell when the parameters have spaces?

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:58

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