在生产Web服务器上安装msdeploy.exe（Windows Server 2016）

Question

There are always security concerns about everything and many are subjective given varying risk tolerances.

Ideally, though, should msdeploy.exe be installed on production web servers? If not, is there a set of command line parameters equivalent to that of:

1. Right-click web application in Visual Studio
2. Publish (File System)...

I realize one could just write a script to extract these same files from the web deployment package (*.zip), but if there was an easier way to do it with msdeploy.exe (ie extract files only), that would be preferred.

Answer 1

We have used MSDeploy for 50+ deployments over 3+ years to all environments (including PROD) with great success. Lex makes a good point in the comment above that Azure uses it as well.

Ultimately it comes down to your situation/business but many shops are using it in PROD.