MSDeploy : Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator

Was installing a web site in IIS on Windows Server 2012 R2 and using msdeploy.

Came up with:

Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator

Mr Google etc. and there's pages about using gpedit.msc and navigating to "User Config / Admin Templates / System" and finding the entry "Prevent access to registry editing tools" and making it "Not configured" or "Disabled" etc.

Actually, all you need to do is add:

set MSDeployPath=C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3\

to the DOS settings!

Obviously, you need to install msdeploy beforehand.

Enjoy!

msdeploy : Package installation failed - 'managedRuntimeVersion' differs

So there I was trying to use msdeploy to deploy a web site from Visual Studio 2010 into an IIS 7 server on another box using the "Build Deployment Package".

I got the error:

The package installation failed.
Details:
The application pool that you are trying to use has the 'managedRuntimeVersion' property set to 'v4.0'. This application requires 'v2.0'.

My web application used the "Default Web Site" and the application pool that it was connected to (DefaultAppPool) was .NET Framework 2.0. Yeah - I screw around with IIS a lot!

Of course, where I was deploying it to was the more usual .NET Framework 4.0.

Mr. Google to the rescue and the answer is to set the following options under the project / Properties / Package/Publish Web:

You need to tick the two text boxes "Include IIS Settings" and "Include application pool settings".
And away you go with msdeploy.

Enjoy!