The Web Deployment Tool enables you to package configuration and content of your installed Web applications, including SQL and MySQL databases, and use the packages for storage or redeployment. These packages can be deployed using IIS Manager without requiring administrative privileges.

What is Microsoft web Deploy used for?

Overview. The Web Deploy is a tool for simplifying migration, management and deployment of Web applications, sites and servers. It can be used to package a Web site, automatically including content, configuration, certificates and databases. It can be used to synchronize between IIS 6.0, IIS 7.

What is a web Deploy package?

This file, commonly known as a web deployment package (or simply a deployment package), contains all the content and configuration information that IIS needs in order to re-create your web application on a web server. Once you’ve created a web deployment package, you can publish it to an IIS server in various ways.