Have you struggled to deploy a Microsoft hosted ASP.NET web site from one machine to another? Or have you wanted to easily archive the settings/files/etc. so that you can roll back changes later if needed (could be very useful for testing an update for example)?

Check out the new Microsoft Web Deployment Team announcement here on their new blog.

They just announced a new deployment tool that supports moving configuration, content, SSL certificates and the other types of data that is associated with a web server. It's command-line driven for now (and with the output being very configurable, including XML), it would be easy enough to put a GUI front-end on the tool if one were so inclined.

It's a tech preview right now and a handful of walkthroughs are available for download.