Allows you to deploy a set of Web files to a Web server, or multiple Web servers. This command works only on projects, not files.
You must have the Destroy access right to use this command.
When you have completed development and testing of your Web pages, the Deploy command is used to copy your files to the live Web server. The location of this server is a folder or FTP site specified by your VSS administrator. When you choose the Deploy command, the contents of your current project are copied to that location.
In many respects, Deploy acts like the Get command: it copies files from a VSS project, to a local folder. However, Get makes a copy for your personal use; Deploy makes the project public, potentially to the entire world. For this reason, the Deploy command requires Destroy-level privileges in the selected project.
Your VSS administrator must set a deployment path in the Web Sites tab of the Administrator Tools Options menu to enable this command. You can deploy only an entire project marked as a Web site project, not single files. The deployment folder can be a comma-delimited set of places you want your files copied to.
When used, the Deploy command overwrites existing files with the same name in the deployment folder, even if you have the Replace Writable files check box of the Tools Options Local Files tab set to Skip.
Note that this command is useful in many instances other than Web site deployment; for example, if you have a set of product specification .doc files that you want to publish to a public server.