diff --git a/Tasks/AzureRmWebAppDeployment/Tests/L0.ts b/Tasks/AzureRmWebAppDeployment/Tests/L0.ts
index 145704208a5e..47a0bda87637 100644
--- a/Tasks/AzureRmWebAppDeployment/Tests/L0.ts
+++ b/Tasks/AzureRmWebAppDeployment/Tests/L0.ts
@@ -458,4 +458,13 @@ describe('AzureRmWebAppDeployment Suite', function() {
         done();
     });
 
+     it('Validate webdeployment-common.utility.copyDirectory()', (done:MochaDone) => {
+        let tp = path.join(__dirname, "..", "node_modules", "webdeployment-common", "Tests", 'L0CopyDirectory.js');
+        let tr : ttm.MockTestRunner = new ttm.MockTestRunner(tp);
+        tr.run();
+
+        assert(tr.stdout.search('## Copy Files Successful ##') >=0, 'should have copied the files');
+        assert(tr.stdout.search('## mkdir Successful ##') >= 0, 'should have created dir including dest folder');
+        done();
+    });
 });
diff --git a/Tasks/AzureRmWebAppDeployment/task.json b/Tasks/AzureRmWebAppDeployment/task.json
index 19d5617968b4..9d101b3a916c 100644
--- a/Tasks/AzureRmWebAppDeployment/task.json
+++ b/Tasks/AzureRmWebAppDeployment/task.json
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
     "version": {
         "Major": 3,
         "Minor": 0,
-        "Patch": 7
+        "Patch": 8
     },
     "preview": "true",
     "releaseNotes": "What's new in Version 3.0: <br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;Supports File Transformations (XDT) <br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;Supports Variable Substitutions(XML, JSON) <br/>Click [here](https://aka.ms/azurermwebdeployreadme) for more Information.",
diff --git a/Tasks/AzureRmWebAppDeployment/task.loc.json b/Tasks/AzureRmWebAppDeployment/task.loc.json
index fb16de8f8fa3..1492cdc2aacf 100644
--- a/Tasks/AzureRmWebAppDeployment/task.loc.json
+++ b/Tasks/AzureRmWebAppDeployment/task.loc.json
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
   "version": {
     "Major": 3,
     "Minor": 0,
-    "Patch": 7
+    "Patch": 8
   },
   "preview": "true",
   "releaseNotes": "What's new in Version 3.0: <br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;Supports File Transformations (XDT) <br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;Supports Variable Substitutions(XML, JSON) <br/>Click [here](https://aka.ms/azurermwebdeployreadme) for more Information.",
diff --git a/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/Tests/L0CopyDirectory.ts b/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/Tests/L0CopyDirectory.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..82ed38b23299
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/Tests/L0CopyDirectory.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+var mockery = require('mockery');
+mockery.enable({
+    useCleanCache: true,
+    warnOnReplace: false,
+    warnOnUnregistered: false
+});
+
+var fileList = ["C:/vinca/path", "C:/vinca/path/myfile.txt",
+                "C:/vinca/path/New Folder", "C:/vinca/path/New Folder/Another New Folder",
+                "C:/vinca/New Folder/anotherfile.py", "C:/vinca/New Folder/Another New Folder/mynewfile.txt"];
+
+var mkdirPCount = 0;
+var cpfilesCount = 0;
+mockery.registerMock('vsts-task-lib/task', {
+    exist: function (path) {
+        console.log("exist : " + path);
+    },
+    find: function (path) {
+        console.log("find : " + path);
+        return fileList;
+    },
+    mkdirP: function (path) {
+        mkdirPCount += 1;
+        console.log("mkdirp : " + path);
+    },
+    cp: function (source, dest, options, continueOnError) {
+        if(fileList.indexOf(source)!= -1) {
+            cpfilesCount += 1;
+            console.log('cp ' + source + ' to ' + dest);
+        }
+    },
+    stats: function (path) {
+        return {
+            isDirectory: function() {
+                if(path.endsWith('.py') || path.endsWith('.txt')) {
+                    return false;
+                }
+                return true;
+            }
+        };
+    },
+    debug: function(message) {
+        console.log(message);
+    }
+});
+var utility = require('webdeployment-common/utility.js');
+utility.copyDirectory('C:/vinca/path', 'C:/vinca/path/destFolder');
+
+if(cpfilesCount === 3) {
+    console.log('## Copy Files Successful ##');
+}
+/**
+ * 7 dir to be created including dest dir
+ * Hash is not created to check already created dir, for testing purpose
+ */
+if(mkdirPCount === 7) {
+    console.log('## mkdir Successful ##');    
+}
+
diff --git a/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/deployusingmsdeploy.ts b/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/deployusingmsdeploy.ts
index c3ba4f252382..080cca7c3c96 100644
--- a/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/deployusingmsdeploy.ts
+++ b/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/deployusingmsdeploy.ts
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ export async function DeployUsingMSDeploy(webDeployPkg, webAppName, publishingPr
         setParametersFileName = setParametersFile.slice(setParametersFile.lastIndexOf('\\') + 1, setParametersFile.length);
     }
     var isParamFilePresentInPackage = isFolderBasedDeployment ? false : await utility.isMSDeployPackage(webDeployPkg);
-    var msDeployPath = await msDeployUtility.getMSDeployFullPath();
+
     var msDeployCmdArgs = msDeployUtility.getMSDeployCmdArgs(webDeployPkg, webAppName, publishingProfile, removeAdditionalFilesFlag,
         excludeFilesFromAppDataFlag, takeAppOfflineFlag, virtualApplication, setParametersFileName, additionalArguments, isParamFilePresentInPackage, isFolderBasedDeployment, 
         useWebDeploy);
diff --git a/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/fileTransformationsUtility.ts b/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/fileTransformationsUtility.ts
index 2c500c2f472c..10f972ac2099 100644
--- a/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/fileTransformationsUtility.ts
+++ b/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/fileTransformationsUtility.ts
@@ -13,14 +13,12 @@ export async function fileTransformations(isFolderBasedDeployment: boolean, JSON
     var folderPath = utility.generateTemporaryFolderOrZipPath(tl.getVariable('System.DefaultWorkingDirectory'), true);
         
     if(isFolderBasedDeployment) {
-        tl.debug('Copying Folder: ' + webDeployPkg + ' to temporary location: ' + folderPath);
-        tl.cp(path.join(webDeployPkg, '/*'), folderPath, '-rf', false);
-        tl.debug('Copied Folder: ' + webDeployPkg + ' to temporary location: ' + folderPath + ' successfully.');
+        tl.debug('Copying Web Packge: ' + webDeployPkg + ' to temporary location: ' + folderPath);
+        utility.copyDirectory(webDeployPkg, folderPath);
+        tl.debug('Copied Web Package: ' + webDeployPkg + ' to temporary location: ' + folderPath + ' successfully.');
     }
     else {
-        tl.debug('Extracting Web Deploy Package: ' + webDeployPkg + ' to temporary location: ' + folderPath);
         await zipUtility.unzip(webDeployPkg, folderPath);
-        tl.debug('Extracted Web Deploy Package: ' + webDeployPkg + ' to temporary location: ' + folderPath + ' successfully.');
     }
 
     if(xmlTransformation) {
diff --git a/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/msdeployutility.ts b/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/msdeployutility.ts
index 3f4ff00812c4..05e434d0961e 100644
--- a/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/msdeployutility.ts
+++ b/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/msdeployutility.ts
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ export async function getMSDeployFullPath() {
         return msDeployFullPath;
     }
     catch(error) {
-        tl.warning(error);
+        tl.debug(error);
         return path.join(__dirname, "..", "..", "MSDeploy3.6", "msdeploy.exe"); 
     }
 }
diff --git a/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/utility.ts b/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/utility.ts
index 1a280bdc14c2..799a8e2f29c9 100644
--- a/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/utility.ts
+++ b/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/utility.ts
@@ -153,4 +153,25 @@ export async function isMSDeployPackage(webAppPackage: string ) {
     }
     tl.debug("Is the package an msdeploy package : " + isParamFilePresent);
     return isParamFilePresent;
+}
+
+export function copyDirectory(sourceDirectory: string, destDirectory: string) {
+    if(!tl.exist(destDirectory)) {
+        tl.mkdirP(destDirectory);
+    }
+    var listSrcDirectory = tl.find(sourceDirectory);
+    for(var srcDirPath of listSrcDirectory) {
+        var relativePath = srcDirPath.substring(sourceDirectory.length);
+        var destinationPath = path.join(destDirectory, relativePath);
+        if(tl.stats(srcDirPath).isDirectory()) {
+            tl.mkdirP(destinationPath);
+        }
+        else {
+            if(!tl.exist(path.dirname(destinationPath))) {
+                tl.mkdirP(path.dirname(destinationPath));
+            }
+            tl.debug('copy file from: ' + srcDirPath + ' to: ' + destinationPath);
+            tl.cp(srcDirPath, destinationPath, '-f', false);
+        }
+    }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/ziputility.ts b/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/ziputility.ts
index 4c2722e80437..98e10a29c9d3 100644
--- a/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/ziputility.ts
+++ b/Tasks/Common/webdeployment-common/ziputility.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ export async function unzip(zipLocation, unzipLocation) {
         defer.reject(error);
     });
     unzipper.on('extract', function (log) {
+        tl.debug('extracted ' + zipLocation + ' to ' + unzipLocation + ' Successfully');
         defer.resolve(unzipLocation);
     });
     unzipper.extract({
diff --git a/Tasks/IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup/Tests/L0.ts b/Tasks/IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup/Tests/L0.ts
index 63887f04b17b..ded7c2fbbf5d 100644
--- a/Tasks/IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup/Tests/L0.ts
+++ b/Tasks/IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup/Tests/L0.ts
@@ -210,4 +210,13 @@ describe('IISWebsiteDeploymentOnMachineGroup test suite', function() {
         done();
     });
 
+     it('Validate webdeployment-common.utility.copyDirectory()', (done:MochaDone) => {
+        let tp = path.join(__dirname, "..", "node_modules", "webdeployment-common", "Tests", 'L0CopyDirectory.js');
+        let tr : ttm.MockTestRunner = new ttm.MockTestRunner(tp);
+        tr.run();
+
+        assert(tr.stdout.search('## Copy Files Successful ##') >=0, 'should have copied the files');
+        assert(tr.stdout.search('## mkdir Successful ##') >= 0, 'should have created dir including dest folder');
+        done();
+    });
 });
diff --git a/Tasks/IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup/task.json b/Tasks/IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup/task.json
index 4cfb60a66b14..594b18198f1e 100644
--- a/Tasks/IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup/task.json
+++ b/Tasks/IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup/task.json
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     "version": {
         "Major": 0,
         "Minor": 0,
-        "Patch": 9
+        "Patch": 10
     },
     "demands": [],
     "minimumAgentVersion": "2.104.1",
diff --git a/Tasks/IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup/task.loc.json b/Tasks/IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup/task.loc.json
index 9bdac9f6c369..916972c8dedc 100644
--- a/Tasks/IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup/task.loc.json
+++ b/Tasks/IISWebAppDeploymentOnMachineGroup/task.loc.json
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
   "version": {
     "Major": 0,
     "Minor": 0,
-    "Patch": 9
+    "Patch": 10
   },
   "demands": [],
   "minimumAgentVersion": "2.104.1",