I am trying out a release via Azure DevOps. Below is how my screenshot of IIS WebApp Manage task.
Below is my IIS Web App Deploy task:
My artifacts, i.e., the zip file contains only the folder named package.
But, still, everything present under wwwroot folder gets deployed to the new web app.
Below is the screenshot of my wwwroot directory:
and thus below are the contents shown under IIS for my newly created website:
I don't expect Verify2WebServiceSSL to be present here as it is not part of the .zip artifacts.