Visual Studio - Publish to multiple locations?

Question

Is there a way to automatically publish a website to multiple locations at once?

Our website is load balanced across multiple servers, so when I want to publish I have to do it to each server individually.

Thx, Trev

Answer 1

Perhaps with some build scripts, such as MSBuild? Or perhaps you could create a script (PowerShell, VBScript, whatever), which copies all contents of a directory, and invoke it in the post build event (configurable in Visual Studio), so that once your solution (or the last project, actually) is built the script will run and copy the output files to wherever you need them.

Answer 2

You could

1. Publish the content to a UNC and have all of the web servers work off of that UNC
2. Push the content from your staging/QA server to production using a tool like MSDeploy
3. Use FRS to replicate the files from a "master" webserver to everyone else.

Answer 3

MSDeploy is setup to handle this using multiple Configurations for each location. Scott Hanselman presented on this at Mix '10

http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/FT14

Answer 4

or just use multiple publish commands. one for each location.