In Part I of this article, I explained how you could export
a package of your website from IIS 7. If
you haven’t already, please read
that blog here before continuing with this blog.
As I pointed out in that blog, it is an industry best
practice that developers not have access to the production server. To deploy a website from the Test environment
to the Production environment, I would export a package of my website in the
Test server. I would then instruct the
Release team (or their equivalent) to import this package into the IIS of the
Production server. All files in the
package contents would be identical in both environments.
Of course, you would want to exclude the web config files
and SSL Certificates and other environment-specific files from the package you
export.
Here in this blog I explain how your Release team can import
a package using the IIS Manager and the Web Deployment Tool in IIS 7.0 or
above.
Import a Package
1.
Open the IIS Manager by clicking Start -> Run and
typing INETMGR
2.
In IIS Manager, in the Connections pane, select the Server node
3.
In the right-hand Actions
pane, under Deploy, click the Import Server or Site Package… link to
launch the wizard
5.
Enter the Password used to Encrypt the Package
6.
In the Import
Server or Site Package dialog, Select All the Contents of the Package
7.
Click Next
8.
Confirm the Server Package Import. Click OK.
9.
The wizard will
now complete the package installation process.
When it is complete, you will see a Summary page that provides a
high-level overview of what items were installed from the package. The Details tab will give a lot of details on
exactly what was installed. Click
Finish.
That’s it. You (or your Release team) have now deployed
your website from your Test environment to your Production environment using
IIS 7 Manager.
