Learning about any potential issues in advance gives you the chance to take corrective measures and simplifies migration. Simplify the planning of your IIS6/IIS7/IIS8/IIS10 migrations by determining incompatibilities and previewing the proposed changes before starting the process. Migrate Web servers from IIS 6 to IIS7, IIS8, IIS8.5, and IIS 10 with ease Once created, these packages can be deployed using Web Deploy cmdline or IIS Manager without requiring administrative privileges. If the package needs to be redeployed to a different environment, configuration values within the package can be parameterized during deployment without requiring modifications to the packages themselves.
Web Deploy enables you to package your Web application content, configuration, databases and any other artifacts like registry, GAC assemblies etc., which can be used for storage or redeployment.
In addition, integration with Web Platform Installer allows developers to simply and easily install community web applications. Web Deploy empowers Visual Studio to help developers streamline the deployment of Web applications to Microsoft IIS Web servers or to Microsoft Azure Websites. Package, archive and deploy Web applications more easily Web Deploy Tool also enables administrators and delegated users to use IIS Manager to deploy ASP.NET and PHP applications to an IIS server. Administrators can use Web Deploy to synchronize IIS servers or to migrate to newer versions of IIS.
Web Deploy (msdeploy) simplifies deployment of Web applications and Web sites to IIS servers.