Initializing IIS Web Server...
Successfully created virtual directory 'ycmbuild'.
Granting IIS read access to the folder 'C:\Projects\YourClubMatters\Trunk\YCM\WebSite_deploy\Release'.
C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\WebDeployment\v9.0\Microsoft.WebDeployment.targets(676,5): error : Some or all identity references could not be translated.
Warning: Unable to grant IIS access to folder 'C:\Projects\YourClubMatters\Trunk\YCM\WebSite_deploy\Release'.
Done building project "WebSite_deploy.wdproj".
========== Rebuild All: 7 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========

The solution for me was to stop the web deployment project from creating the iis virtual directory, make a virtual directory pointing at say “c:\inetpub\vdir”, give the application pool it belongs to the same rights as the tfservice, edit team build project file adding a task that shuts down the parent website of the virtual directory, deletes all subdirectories and files in “c:\inetpub\vdir”, copies the published website that the deployment project creates to “c:\inetpub\vdir” and starts the parent website of the virtual directory.

I’m sure there are other solutions, I found that to be the simplest. Also, I used SDC Tasks to do all of this, very simple stuff.

What you add the the .proj file looks like this:

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