Can I Pass MSDeploy Parameters to Azure Web App MSDeploy Extension?

Question

There is an MSDeploy extension available for Azure Web Apps; this can be used with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates as well ( example ). I'd like to pass additional command-line arguments to MSDeploy, such as -enableRule:AppOffline ( example ).

Is there documentation for the MSDeploy Web App extension for passing additional arguments, etc.?

Answer 1

Support was recently added to the MSDeploy section of ARM Templates adding appOffline support.

(...)
"resources": [
    {
        "apiVersion": "2016-03-01",
        "name": "MSDeploy",
        "type": "Extensions",
        "dependsOn": [
            "[concat('Microsoft.Web/Sites/', parameters('appName'))]"
        ],
        "properties": {
            "packageUri": "https://mystorageblob.blob.core.windows.net/package/my_webdeploy_package.zip",
            "dbType": "None",
            "connectionString": "",
            "AppOffline": true,
            "SkipAppData": true,
            "setParameters": {
                "IIS Web Application Name": "[parameters('appName')]"
            }
        }
    }
],
(...)

Answer 2

It is actually supported, but there are some things you need to know.

• when you only update the parameters, the changes aren't pushed through. You'll need to touch the web.config. Msdeploy doesn't see this as a change.
• it doesn't support configSource in web.config, you'll need to patch each file separately.

parameters.xml

<parameters> <parameter name="SmtpHost" defaultValue="" tags="" > <parameterEntry kind="XmlFile" scope="Web.config" match="/configuration/system.net/mailSettings/smtp/network/@host" /> </parameter> </parameters>

arm-template { "name": "MSDeploy", "type": "extensions", "location": "[resourceGroup().location]", "apiVersion": "2015-08-01", "dependsOn": [ "[resourceId('Microsoft.Web/sites', parameters('siteName'))]" ], "properties": { "packageUri": "[concat(parameters('_artifactsLocation'), '/', parameters('folder'), '/', parameters('filename'), parameters('_artifactsLocationSasToken'))]", "dbType": "None", "setParameters": { "IIS Web Application Name": "[parameters('cmsSiteName')]", "SmtpHost": "[parameters('smtpHost')]" } } }

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/azure/en-US/3a07e809-d452-463a-b1bf-d84d48415302/azure-resource-manager-msdeploy-extension-parameters?forum=windowsazurewebsitespreview

Answer 3

Based on the latest schema definition for Azure Web App MSDeploy extension as below, it does not support the passing of MSDeploy command line switches or flags as parameters.

http://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-08-01/Microsoft.Web.json#/resourceDefinitions/sitesextensions

You can refer to the link below for passing parameters for ARM Web App MSDeploy extension as below.

Documentation link for MSDeploy Web App extension passing parameters