How to show maintenance page during deployment?

Question

I want to plan a schedule maintenance down time on one of my production asp.net website hosted on IIS windows server 2003.

I think this is the preferred behavior:

Answer 1

Try putting App_Offline.htm to the root directory.

Answer 2

copy an app_offline.htm file to the webroot

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/10/06/426755.aspx