shit i lost a lot because i didn't push my changes  to origin/master and my notebook crashed... i just forgot to backup my PowerDeploy git repo -> #n00b #epicfail #whaaaaaaaa. re-engineering from brain: new IIS deployments using PowerShell WebAdministration cmdlets (i gave webdeploy up... it was just too much PITA. new approach is much more flexible and ROBUST. if you ever used webdeploy, you probably know the problem with a too long path, because the package.zip has a ridiculous folder structure...  another problem was the calling of this tool by PS... PITA