Team Build: Publish locally using MSDeploy

Question

I\'m just getting started with the team build functionality and I\'m finding the sheer amount of things required to do something pretty simple a bit overwhelming. My setup a

Answer 1

The ability to publish web sites, configure IIS and push schema changes for the DEV->QA->RELEASE cycle has required either custom configuration to imitate publish or custom code where IIS settings are involved.

As of Visual Studio 2013.2 Microsoft has added a third party product that manages deployment of web sites, configuration changes and database deployment with windows workflow and would be the recommended solution for automating deployment from TFS build.

More information can be found here:

http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/explore/release-management-vs.aspx