TFS 2010 build and deployment automation customization with existing document on target server

Question

I am trying to figure out how to configure and/or customize TFS NOT to over-write some of the folders on the tartget site when deploying to an existing web application.

Here is the scenario:

I have three servers, Dev, staging and production. The production site of my application containts documents uploaded by users and i would like to leave these folders intact when i deploy to production. I dont have a problem with TFS overwitting the folders on the Staging and dev.

How would i go about doing this? Do i need to add something to the build arguments or i have to customize the entire build process?

Answer 1

How are you deploying the wep application from you build? Are you using WebDeploy or are you just copying the files?

/Jakob

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Answer 2

I am using webdeploy like so;

/p:DeployOnBuild=True /p:Configuration=Release /p:DeployTarget=MsDeployPublish /p:CreatePackageOnPublish=True /p:MsDeployPublishMethod=WMSVC /p:MsDeployServiceUrl=https://myproductionserver:8172/MsDeploy.axd  /p:AllowUntrustedCertificate=true /p:DeployIisAppPath=MyLiveSite/p:username=AgentAccount /p:password=password

which all works as expected except cleaning up the target site folder before writing new version of the file. Thats the part i need to change

Answer 3

Does anybody know how to do this. Im still trying to figure this out.