iis 7 - Is it possible to use WebMatrix with pure IIS?

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I'd like to check out href="http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/" rel="nofollow
noreferrer">WebMatrix for publishing our site to IIS automatically (right
now, I have to zip it up, copy it out, Remote Desktop into the server, unzip it,
etc).

However, every example I can find on how
to setup WebMatrix involves Azure, or using a .publishsettings file
that you'd get from your hosting provider. I'm curious if I can publish to a normal,
every day IIS server running on Windows Server 2008. So far, all I've done to the IIS
server is install Web Deploy, which I believe is the protocol that WebMatrix uses to
publish.

When I enter the Remote Site Settings
screen, I select Enter settings. I select Web
Deploy as the protocol, type in my NT domain credentials (I'm an Admin on
that server). I put in the site URL for the Site Name and
Destination URL. When I click Validate
Connection, I get:

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Am I doing something wrong, or is this
just not possible to do?

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You will
have to enable it on the server. If you are on IIS 7 you can look href="http://www.iis.net/learn/install/installing-publishing-technologies/installing-and-configuring-web-deploy"
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There are simpler
ways to achieve what you want, for example you could enable (S)FTP directly in the
folder from where you are hosting or so. If you already have the luxury of being allowed
RDP access to the machine, you probably have enough rights to set it up in whatever way
you want. Be careful though not to compromise security.