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.

There are a number of other related articles but

Answer 1

I've used some ideas from answers above and came up with the following simpler function to do the thing.

Note that it is important to give the full path to MSDeploy as when running under the build agent it sometimes doesnt recognise the PATH to msdeploy.

function Deploy([string]$server, [string]$remotePath, [string]$localPath) {
        $msdeploy = "C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3\msdeploy.exe";
        cmd.exe /C $("`"{3}`" -verb:sync -source:contentPath=`"{0}`" -dest:computerName=`"{1}`",contentPath=`"{2}`" " -f $localPath, $server, $remotePath , $msdeploy )
    }

Usage

Deploy $hostName $remotePath $source

Answer 2

Just adding another way in case it is helpful to anyone:

Invoke-Expression "& '[path to msdeploy]\msdeploy.exe' --% -verb:sync -source:contentPath=`'$source`' -dest:contentPath=`'$dest`'"

"--%" is new to powershell 3. From here: "You simply add a the --% sequence (two dashes and a percent sign) anywhere in the command line and PowerShell will not try to parse the remainder of that line."

Answer 3

Found a working solution and easy fix. Reference: http://answered.site/all-arguments-must-begin-with--at-cwindowsdtldownloadswebserviceswebservicesidservicepublishedwebsitesidservicedeploymentidservicewsdeployps123/4231580/

$msdeploy = "C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3\msdeploy.exe"
$msdeployArgs = @(
"-verb:sync",
"-source:iisApp='Default Web Site/HelloWorld'",
"-verbose",
"-dest:archiveDir='c:\temp1'"
)
Start-Process $msdeploy -NoNewWindow -ArgumentList $msdeployArgs