How do you call msdeploy from powershell when the parameters have spaces?

Question

I\'m running into a problem with spaces in my parameters that I try to send into msdeploy from a powershell script.

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Answer 1

Here is another approach derived from the input below.

$msdeploy = "C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3\msdeploy.exe";

$command = "-verb:sync";

$sourcePath = "C:\aa aa\";
$source = $("-source:contentPath=`"{0}`"" -f $sourcePath);

$destPath = "C:\aa"
$destination = $("-dest:contentPath=`"{0}`" -f $destPath);

$msdeploycommand = $("`"{0}`" {1} {2} {3} -verbose" -f $msdeploy, $command, $source, $destination);

cmd.exe /C "`"$msdeploycommand`"";

This caters for the MSDeploy.exe being in its default installation folder which contains spaces. Hence the wrapping with the escape character (`).