Hi Michael,

Hopefully this helps... There is a property you can override when calling the Package or Publish targets, called "DesktopBuildPackageLocation"

The value of this property is where your MSDeploy package will be dropped instead of relying on a Copy msbuild task. Not totally sure if this is what you were asking, but hopefully this fixes your problem.

Below is a snippet of how I am calling the Package / Publish targets in my Deployment.proj file.

 <PropertyGroup>

<PackageOutputFile>$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)/Packages/MyWeb.zip</PackageOutputFile>

 </PropertyGroup>

<MSBuild Projects="$(SolutionRootDir)/MyWeb.csproj"

       Targets="Package"

       Properties="Configuration=$(Configuration);Platform=$(Platform);DesktopBuildPackageLocation=$(PackageOutputFile);PipelineDependsOnBuild=false;DeployOnBuild=false" />

-Matt