Today I blew my machine away and ready for the Web Camps events starting next week in Toronto – getting everything from Visual Studio 2010 to IIS and more installed.
Part of the demos will be covering Web Deploy – the technology that makes it easy to deploy websites on IIS from Visual Studio 2010 and IIS. I normally get it installed via Web PI but for whatever reason (I may have installed something in the wrong order) I wasn’t getting the UI features showing up in IIS – where it should give me options to import and/or export a deployment package:
This was curious because Web PI was telling me that Web Deployment Tool was installed too, so I decided to try install it “raw” using the MSI – which is available under the main Web PI download link:
When I ran that MSI I had the option to change the installation and this revealed where the problem was.
The components for the UI Module in IIS Manager were not installed as you can see above. Once I installed them, sure enough, the options appeared in IIS.
I have no idea why the options for importing/exporting packages didn’t show up in IIS – nor do I care :) – but hopefully if you come across the same problem, this will help you out.