Can the web deploy agent run on a port other than 80 on IIS6?

Question

I\'ve got a bit of a challenge with a Windows 2003 machine where I need to run the web deploy agent on a port which isn\'t 80. By default, MsDepSvc will expose an endpoint a

Answer 1

For what it's worth, I glued together Kev's solid advice into a batch script for one stop shopping on changing port numbers.

:: Name:     MsDepSvc.Port.cmd
:: Purpose:  Modifies the TCP/IP port that the Web Deployment Agent Service
::           (MsDepSvc) listens on.  Tested on Win7 Enterprise 32-bit.
:: Author:   stevejansen_github@icloud.com
:: Revision: January 2013

@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION

:: variables
SET me=%~n0
SET url=
SET port=
IF NOT "%~1"=="" (
  SET /A port=%~1
)

ECHO %me%: Web Deployment Agent Service (MsDepSvc) port change script

:: default argument values
IF "%port%"=="" (
  SET /A port=8172
  ECHO %me%: INFO - using default port value of 8172
)

SC.EXE query msdepsvc >NUL 2>NUL
IF NOT "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" (
  ECHO %me%: ERROR - MsDepSvc not installed
  ECHO %me%: exiting
  EXIT /B 1
)

ECHO %me%: stopping MsDepSvc
NET STOP msdepsvc >NUL 2>NUL

:: check if the default port is set
REG.EXE QUERY HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MsDepSvc\Parameters /v ListenUrl >NUL
IF NOT "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" (
  ECHO %me%: ERROR - MsDepSvc ListenUrl registry key not found
  REG.EXE QUERY HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MsDepSvc\Parameters
  ECHO %me%: exiting
  EXIT /B 2
)

FOR /F "tokens=3" %%I IN ('REG.EXE QUERY HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MsDepSvc\Parameters /v ListenUrl ^| FINDSTR ListenUrl') DO (
  SET url=%%I
)
ECHO %me%: INFO - MsDepSvc current reservation is "%url%"

NETSH.EXE http show urlacl "%url%" >NUL
IF NOT "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" (
  ECHO %me%: ERROR - reservation for "%url%" not found
  EXIT /B 4
)

:: save the existing urlacl properties for User, Listen, Delegate, and SDDL
FOR /F "tokens=1,* delims=: " %%A IN ('NETSH.exe http show urlacl %url%  ^| FINDSTR "User Listen Delegate SDDL"') DO (
  SET URLACL.%%A=%%B
)

IF NOT DEFINED URLACL.User     ECHO %me%: Failed to read the exising URLACL setting for User     &&GOTO :ERROR
IF NOT DEFINED URLACL.Listen   ECHO %me%: Failed to read the exising URLACL setting for Listen   &&GOTO :ERROR
IF NOT DEFINED URLACL.Delegate ECHO %me%: Failed to read the exising URLACL setting for Delegate &&GOTO :ERROR
IF NOT DEFINED URLACL.SDDL     ECHO %me%: Failed to read the exising URLACL setting for SDDL     &&GOTO :ERROR

ECHO %me%: updating MsDepSvc to listen on port %port%
REG.EXE ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MsDepSvc\Parameters /v ListenUrl /t REG_SZ /f /d "http://+:%port%/MSDEPLOYAGENTSERVICE/"

ECHO %me%: deleting the existing reservation for MsDepSvc
NETSH.EXE http delete urlacl "%url%" || GOTO :ERROR

ECHO %me%: adding the port %port% reservation for MsDepSvc
NETSH.EXE http add urlacl url=http://+:%port%/MsDeployAgentService/ user="%URLACL.User%" listen="%URLACL.Listen%" delegate="%URLACL.Delegate%" SDDL="%URLACL.SDDL%"  || GOTO :ERROR

ECHO %me%: starting MsDepSvc
NET START msdepsvc >NUL 2>NUL

ECHO %me%: process info for MsDepSvc
QUERY.EXE PROCESS MSDEPSVC.EXE
ECHO.
ECHO %me%: port bindings for MsDepSvc
NETSTAT.EXE -a -n -o | FINDSTR /R "TCP.*:%port%.*LISTENING Proto"
ECHO.
ECHO %me%: finished

:END
ENDLOCAL
ECHO ON
@EXIT /B 0

:ERROR
ECHO %me%: ERROR - exiting with errorlevel %ERRORLEVEL%
ECHO ON
@EXIT/B %ERRORLEVEL%

Read More:

• https://gist.github.com/steve-jansen/5060329
• http://steve-jansen.github.com/blog/2013/02/28/how-to-modify-the-tcp-slash-ip-port-binding-for-the-microsoft-web-deployment-agent-service/