For example xWebsite: 'Cannot create a file when that file already exists' - probably means 'Cannot start website because binding is already assigned to another website'

Investigate possibility of enabling ISE's Intellisense for Tokens (or alternatively extend PsISEProjectExplorer).

Currently when two deploys run remotely on the same node, a problem can occur during extraction - we should be able to specify that we want to copy PSCI to auto-generated path.

In order to make sure we don't run unwanted deployment to Live, we need to double-check everything.

Set-TargetResource is invoked and ends successfully even though following error is reported:
dism /online /enable-feature -featurename:IIS-ASPNET45

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.3.9600.17031

Image Version: 6.3.9600.17031

Enabling feature(s)
[==========================100.0%==========================]

Error: 50

The operation is complete but IIS-ASPNET45 feature was not enabled.
A required parent feature may not be enabled. You can use the /enable-feature /a
ll option to automatically enable each parent feature from the following list. I
f the parent feature(s) are already enabled, refer to the log file for further d
iagnostics.
IIS-NetFxExtensibility45

The DISM log file can be found at C:\Windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log

dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:IIS-ASPNET45 /all

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.3.9600.17031

Image Version: 6.3.9600.17031

Enabling feature(s)
[==========================100.0%==========================]
The operation completed successfully.

Currently there is lot of copy-paste when there are two similar configurations (e.g. Web provision and Services provision - only $Tokens are different).

We need to be able to prevent two concurrent deployments on the same machine (configurable by user).

Currently every configuration is deployed when deployment runs.
If we're able to calculate a hash for each module in the package and store it in a file, we could use the file to deploy the module only if it changes.

There is a new version of msbuild, the 15.0. I'm just wondering how to update the Get-MSBuildPath and I'm thinking about using https://github.com/microsoft/vssetup.powershell.

Do you think it is a good idea? How to declare such dependency to external module?

http://johan.driessen.se/posts/Deploying-to-remote-IIS-with-MsDeploy

Currently new log replaces the old one - the old one should be renamed instead.

Due to usage of New-SelfSignedCertificate function.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/02/13/new-and-improved-resource-kit.aspx

Currently when we want to deploy MsDeploy package, we need to configure MsDeploy on remote host, and run a custom function with invocation of Deploy-WebPackage. Instead, we should be able to do it purely from DSC (which would download the package and replace tokens in configuration files).

This would be useful in order to be able to override ServerConnections in given Step (for more complex scenarios).

And ideally leave the functions as they are (in case user does not want to use DSC).

Currently in order to validate that deployment is successful, a new server role needs to be created, plus there isn't anything in PSCI that makes writing validations easier.

Sometimes we don't want an environment to be based on Default (e.g. for Live).

How to reproduce

Try to reproduce very quick start how described in https://github.com/ObjectivityLtd/PSCI/wiki/Getting-started#very-quick-start---without-config-files
Remove-Module PPoShSqlTools,PPoShTools -EA 0
New-Item c:\projects\psci -ItemType Directory -Force
Set-Location C:\projects\psci\
git clone https://github.com/ObjectivityBSS/PSCI.git
Import-Module .\PSCI\PSCI\PSCI.psd1 -Force

Currently logging from SSDT is not real-time. We could try one of the following:
http://pwndizzle.blogspot.com/2013/12/powershell-threading.html
http://www.get-blog.com/?p=189
https://github.com/nightroman/SplitPipeline

Checkpoints should be able to decrease local deployment times (especially when error occurs).

Currently we need to write ServerRole Web -ServerConnections WebServer - could we just apply convention? (search ServerConnections with name = Web or WebServer)

File Start-DscConfigurationWithRetries.ps1 contains a string:
"[string[]]$rebootServerCoincidences = Select-String -Pattern 'reboot is required' -Path $dscResPathTmp"
In a system with a different localization, the output is in a different language. The pattern does not work. I have to add a 'reboot is required|требуется перезагрузка' to solve

Currently when we want to store passwords we need to have a separate tokens file and protect it using VCS mechanisms. Should add a mechanism to encrypt/decrypt token files, possibly basing on convention (e.g. tokens.sensitive.ps1), and possibly using git hooks for automatic encryption/decryption on pull/push.

On the local computer installed ru-RU localization. At the remote computer i have en-us.
I run ServerRole with the -runremotely parameter and get the error:

Write-ErrorRecord: [Start-DeploymentByPSRemoting.ps1 // 188] [WindowsPackageCab.psm1 / Import-LocalizedData / 19] Cannot find the Windows PowerShell data file
owerShell \ v1.0 \ Modules \ PSDesiredStateConfiguration \ DSCClassResources \ WindowsPackageCab \ ru-RU \ ', or directories

I solved the problem by transferring from the local computer to the remote directory C: \ Windows \ System32 \ WindowsPowerShell \ v1.0 \ Modules \ PSDesiredStateConfiguration \ DSCClassResources \ WindowsPackageCab \ ru-RU
Please tell me a better solution.

Like that:
cAppPool
File WebsiteDir
cWebsite
cIISWebsiteAuthentication Windows
cIISWebsiteAuthentication Anonymous
if ($WebApplicationName) {
File WebApplicationDir
cWebApplication
}

Sometimes following error is logged instead of proper log message:

(Start-ExternalProcess.ps1/Write-EventsToLog/335) Couldn't get events: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute.

We could parse configuration files (e.g. configuration.ps1) before deployment and ensure each $Tokens reference is valid.

Currently xWebAdministration has been modified - new resources with 'c' prefix should be created instead.

Hi,
I was trying to run simple build task on Windows 10. Unfortunately there is error with executing command. Are you aware of this issue. I suppose this is error related to Windows 10 this same code executed on Win8 runs without any errors.

[I] 2016-02-02 18:17:37 [ServerName/username]: (Build-MsBuild.ps1/Build-MsBuild/120) Building package 'ProjectName'. [I] 2016-02-02 18:17:37 [ServerName/username]: (Invoke-ExternalCommand.ps1/Invoke-ExternalCommand/134) Running external command: "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\amd64\msbuild.exe" "C:\Users\username\Projects\ProjectName\ProjectName.sln" /p:Configuration="Release" /p:DeployOnBuild="True" /p:DeployTarget="Package" /p:AutoParameterizationWebConfigConnectionStrings="false" /p:PackageLocation="C:\Users\username\Projects\ProjectName\bin\ProjectName\ProjectName.zip" /nologo /maxcpucount /nodeReuse:false '""C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. [E] 2016-02-02 18:17:37 [ServerName/username]: (Invoke-ExternalCommand.ps1//239) External command failed with exit code '1'.

Starting with version 9.0.0, the xPSDesiredStateConfiguration module renamed some DSCResources. After that, the custom cTeamcity module stopped working because it requires MSFT
\dsc\custom\cTeamcity\DscResources\OBJ_cTeamcityAgent\OBJ_cTeamcityAgent.schema.psm1
82) "Import-DSCResource -Module xPSDesiredStateConfiguration -Name MSFT_xServiceResource"
it must be DSC_xServiceResource

Need to use .NET / 7-zip if possible, instead of Shell.

As MS recently moved to github, we should too.