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PowerShell and IIS: 20 practical examples

Real-world examples tested on Windows 2008 R2 through to 2016. Creating sites, configuring application pools, and examples in both the old WebAdministration module and the newer IISAdministration module.

IIS and Windows Service Steps including Virtual Directory support

We have added support for deploying to Virtual Directories and new specific deployment steps for IIS and Windows Services

New in 2.0: IIS website and application pool configuration

Octopus 2.0 can automatically create and update websites and application pools in IIS

Deploy a PHP Site to IIS with Octopus

How to deploy php files to an IIS server with Octopus Deploy

Migrating an ASP.NET web app from IIS on-premises to an Azure App Service

Learn how to migrate an ASP.NET web app from hosting it on-premises to an Azure App Service in the Cloud.

Encrypting connection strings in Web.config

Encrypting connection strings section in Web.config with Octopus Deploy

RFC: X.509 Certificate Management

Request For Comment on proposed X.509 Certificate Management

SSL 3.0 "POODLE" and Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy uses TLS 1.0 and isn't vulnerable to the SSL 3.0 "POODLE" vulnerability

DeployFailed.ps1 support

RFC: Monitoring and Service Management

What if Octopus could monitor the Windows Services and IIS websites that you deploy?

Heartbleed and Octopus Deploy

Octopus uses SSL libraries in Windows, and so isn't vulnerable to the Hearbleed bug

Testing PowerShell scripts with Tentacle

Configuration Management with Octopus and PowerShell DSC

This post demonstrates how to use PowerShell DSC with Octopus Deploy, including using Octopus as an alternative to the DSC pull server,

New in 2.0: Windows Service deployment

Octopus 2.0 can install and start Windows Services during deployment

Self-service runbooks examples

Learn to provide common administrative tasks as self-service runbooks.

What's new in Octopus 2.2

PowerShell console, PowerShell conventions, and IIS bindings

Vulnerability in HTTP.sys Could Allow Remote Code Execution

Changing website port on each deployment

Blue/green style deployments by varying the port number between each deployment

Documentation

IIS Runbooks

With Octopus Deploy you can manage IIS with runbooks as part of your routine operations tasks.

IIS Websites and application pools

Octopus has built-in support for configuring IIS web sites, applications and virtual directories.

IIS websites and application pools

Octopus has built-in support for configuring IIS web sites, applications and virtual directories.

Blue-green deployments in IIS

Implementing blue-green deployments in IIS with Octopus.

Use IIS as a reverse proxy for Octopus Deploy

How to set up IIS 7 (or later) as a Reverse Proxy for Octopus Deploy

Windows

Deployment examples for Windows, including Services, IIS websites and app pools, and more.

Routine operations

Octopus Deploy allows you to create and run runbooks for routine operations tasks, which don't happen very frequently.

Enable web request logging

How to enable web request logging to help the Octopus team analyze usage patterns and detecting performance problems.

ASP.NET Core webapp

This guide covers everything you need to perform your first ASP.NET Core webapp deployment.

HTML and JavaScript applications

This guide provides a simple example of deploying and configuring a simple JavaScript application built using AngularJS.

Rollback .NET Application on Windows Server

A guide on how to rollback a .NET application hosted on Windows Servers.

Polling Tentacles over WebSockets

Octopus Polling Tentacles open a connection to the Octopus Server over WebSockets to ask what to do.

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