I am setting up a release for the first time in 2018 Release Management. We have a website that we want deployed to IIS.
The build definition is setup and has created the artifacts. When I setup the release definition I select the IIS Website Deployment template which gives me two tasks.
They seem to cover similar ground, but I cannot find documentation to tell me how they are different. Do I need both?
When I configure IIS Web App Deploy, the Website Name field is grayed out. The link icon tells me
This setting is linked to the 'Website name' (Parameters.WebsiteName) process parameter.
So I created the process parameter in the release definition and the build definition with a different name. However the Website Name does not update. Is there a way to manually edit this field?
In short:
IIS Web App Manage
This task does provisioning, for example creating an IIS Web Site and Application Pool. Typically this is only needed the first time deploying to a target machine, but there is no harm in running it on every deploy, since it then just skips creating already existing items.
IIS Web App Deploy
This task deploys your code.