running MSDeploy in Powershell

wannabeshredding — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Hi, PS Guru?

I have been trying to write a PS deployment script to automate the deployment process bit for my work. I did some research for couple of weeks now and I'm a bit lost here.

first, I found out the forum what I eventually want to do, http://trycatchfail.com/blog/post/The-trials-and-tribulations-of-using-MSDeploy-with-PowerShell.aspx

But I found out using cmd /c, running msdeploy.exe is not easy actually that the following function doesn't work

function PushToTarget([string]$server, [string]$remotePath, [string]$localPath) {
    cmd.exe /C $("msdeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:contentPath=`"{0}`" -dest:computerName=`"{1}`",contentPath=`"{2}`" -whatif" -f $localPath, $server, $remotePath )
}

So, I wrote and came down to the following script.

$envMsDeploy = $env:msdeploy
$DirMsDeploy = split-Path -Parent $envMsDeploy

# defined the current location to C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V2 
set-location $DirMsDeploy

$arg = @(
    '-verb:sync';
    '-source:contentPath=' + $buildDroppedLocation;
    '-dest:contentPath=' + $destinationPath;
    ' -whatif > c:\temp\msdeploy.log'
 )

$runMSDeploy = ($DirMsDeploy + "\Msdeploy.exe " + $arg)

When I outfile $runMSDeploy, it shows "C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V2\Msdeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:contentPath=c:\source Path -dest:contentPath=\\unc path to a remoted server\folderso, it stores necessary information to run MSdeploy with the necessary parameters I want to have.

But since it contains C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V2\msdeploy.exe,  I get the error message, "cmd.exe : 'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command".

I am kinda under why the error happens but I can't seem to find a better answer yet. cmd.exe runs from c:\windows\system32\ and then the created script run c:\program files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V2\Msdeploy.exe from c:\windows\system32 directory.

This is where I'm trying to figure out.

How can I run this without putting $runMSDeploy into a batch file? Is there any cmlet I can use to run $runMSDeploy? Invoke-command or Invoke-Expression?

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