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We have customized the build process with a InvokeProcess action that runs a powershell script that deploys our sln. Problem is that this script must be run under a given user (not the tfsbuild user). How can we achive this? Alternative 1: Make the InvokeProcess run as a different user - Alternative 2: Make the powershell script itself run as different user Problem is that I have no idea of how to do any of this. I have created a blog post on this how you can achieve this: Customize Team Build 2010 – Part 9: Impersonate activities (run under other credentials) A pure PowerShell option,

I am using the new VSO scriptable build system with an on premise build agent. The build publishes the following assets to an internal file share. Install Symbols to our internal symbol store. When a build is deleted either manually or based on retention policy the associated assets are not deleted. Should I expect that assets are deleted when the associated build record is deleted? In 2015 RTM and currently in VSO, server drops are deleted when a build is deleted but drops to UNC shares are not. We have work on our backlog to address this. EDIT: In 2015 QU2, this is enabled. Also if you on

I want to write a simple task which will update and commit source code that was Nightly build to SVN. I was on the msbuildtasks.tigris.org page, and downloaded the dll's but I have no idea how to write it. Could you please provide some basic samples? Here is an example (taken from the MSBuild Community Tasks Build) that does exactly that: <ItemGroup> <CommitFiles Include="www\index.html" /> <CommitFiles Include="www\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Nightly.zip" /> <CommitFiles Include="www\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Nightly.msi" /> </ItemGroup> <SvnCommit Targets="@(CommitFiles)" Message="AutoBuild"

I have a TFSBuild.proj file and I need to add date/time logging for statistics i.e. which parts of the builds take the most time and where can we improve the process. The build outputs the log to BuildLog.txt. I use the following tags to get custom messages in the BuildLog.txt file, but I need to add a timestamp to each message. <Message Text="Debug: BeforeGet start: StartTimeGoesHere"></Message> <Message Text="Debug: BeforeGet end: EndTimeGoesHere"></Message> Is it possible to get a timestamp in the message? Is there a MSBuild variable that gets the current datetime value? In the example

SERVERNAME(myDomain\Username) Application Pools Sites DEV Site1 DEV Site2 dev Site 3 bin Content ... Views etc ... This is my basic layout of our DEV web server. Our DEV web server has many sites running on it. I am trying to use TFS 2013 Build to publish my web site to the DEV server following articles from Vishal Joshi , Microsoft and others. My error is " ERROR_SITE_DOES_NOT_EXIST ". The basic fix does not help me. In my example, I'm using /p:DeployIisAppPath="dev Site 3" . There are no applications defined under the site. Microsoft's instructions are useless. I thought I should just use

We're using this process to use WebDeploy to deploy and compile two web sites that are a part of the solution. The approach we took was found here: http://vishaljoshi.blogspot.com/2010/11/team-build-web-deployment-web-deploy-vs.html But it's only deploying one of the web sites; is there a way to tell it to publish both? Thanks. Vishal R Joshi Web Packages created based on the above walkthrough (i.e. via VS 2010 and its derivatives like TFS etc) can only contain one web project. Unfortunately VS generated Web Packages will be limited from this sense. If you use Web Deploy (MSDeploy) EXE or API