Microsoft Deployment Agent 2013 component is a service that needs to be installed on the Target Servers of the Environments where the application components will be hosted. Each Target Server needs to be licensed with a Visual Studio Deployment Standard or Datacenter offering.

By using the innovative release and deployment tools in Release Management for Visual Studio 2013, you can automate the deployment of applications across the desktop, the server, and the cloud.

For more information, please see the Release Management Installation Guide and the Release Management User Guide.