MSBuild not triggering WebDeploy

Question

Multiple TFS 2010 MSBuilds are not triggering Web Deploy to publish the web application to the IIS website.

This is for multiple different software products, multip

Answer 1

Assuming you are using vs2012, on your build server make sure the following two folders exist: Web & WebApplications in

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0

If these dont exist then need to be copied from a machine your do development on. This worked for me, and solved all of my problems with the Deployment of projects.