# IT:AD:MSDeploy:HowTo:Find the MSDeploy.exe location #



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You need to know where MSDeploy.exe was installed to before you can invoke it in a script.

The location it is at depends on what version we are talking about.


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## Process ##

My current V3 location is:

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C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3\
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I got that by investigating the Registry, in the same way as it was done in the `*.cmd` file that [[IT/AD/Visual Studio/]] 2012 automatically creates:

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@rem ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@rem Please Make sure you have Web Deploy install in your machine. 
@rem Alternatively, you can explicit set the MsDeployPath to the location it is on your machine
@rem set MSDeployPath="C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3\"
@rem ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                      
@rem ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@rem if user does not set MsDeployPath environment variable, we will try to retrieve it from registry.
@rem ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
if "%MSDeployPath%" == "" (
for /F "usebackq tokens=1,2,*" %%h  in (`reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\IIS Extensions\MSDeploy" /s  ^| findstr -i "InstallPath"`) do (
if /I "%%h" == "InstallPath" ( 
if /I "%%i" == "REG_SZ" ( 
if not "%%j" == "" ( 
if "%%~dpj" == "%%j" ( 
set MSDeployPath=%%j
))))))

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