Please also refer to the online documentation. Event Viewer and Event Reports in the MMC provide an instance error reporting. You can also turn on FullLogging for more detailed error logging. My project is frequently aborted due to file locking. This is a new feature that is not available on the previous version.
Publishing seems to delete files on the endpoint server.
The easiest way to set this up is using the MMC, where you can set this option in the IIS tab menu. The virtual directory setting is set on the endpoint server. Publishing allows you to deploy component. Please consult the documentation for more information about deploying component. I don't need to deploy the graphics-related files such as .bmp or .gif.