Predeployment test - any one using?

[Jennifer_Watson]

Hi...

I am just starting to play with this and haven't gotten very far. Does anyone have any tips on getting started, best practices, etc.? (Beyond the user guide provided by Macrovision.)

Also, for those of you who are using, what's your opinion?

Thanks,

Jenn

[looeee]

I've found it to reasonable. It will check the permissions on all the files and folders and keys and make a nice report. It can catch the occasional package before it fails at deploytime.

One thing to be careful for is that the RemoveExistingProducts action does not get conditioned off so it may unintentially uninstall the older version of an app

looeee

[Jennifer_Watson]

Thanks looeee.

How did you set it up?

[looeee]

you install adminstudio onto a machine with IIS, and it installs the web apps there

When you run the predeployment wizard on your machine, you point it at

http://yourserver/PreDeployTestService/PreDeployTestService.asmx

You put the package through your normal distibution process. When it runs, no changes will (should) be made to the PC but it will then upload the results of the test to the webserver and give you some nifty reports about permission issues, etc.

looeee