diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration.Tools/WebConfigTransform.cs b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration.Tools/WebConfigTransform.cs
index 2b13c4249c..edfed37bb1 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration.Tools/WebConfigTransform.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration.Tools/WebConfigTransform.cs
@@ -57,8 +57,10 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration.Tools
 
         private static void TransformAspNetCore(XElement aspNetCoreElement, string appName, bool configureForAzure)
         {
-            var appPath = Path.Combine(configureForAzure ? @"%home%\site" : ".", appName);
-            var logPath = Path.Combine(configureForAzure ? @"\\?\%home%\LogFiles" : @".\logs", "stdout.log");
+            // Forward slashes currently work neither in AspNetCoreModule nor in dotnet so they need to be
+            // replaced with backwards slashes when the application is published on a non-Windows machine
+            var appPath = Path.Combine(configureForAzure ? @"%home%\site" : ".", appName).Replace("/", "\\");
+            var logPath = Path.Combine(configureForAzure ? @"\\?\%home%\LogFiles" : @".\logs", "stdout.log").Replace("/", "\\");
 
             aspNetCoreElement.SetAttributeValue("processPath", appPath);
             SetAttributeValueIfEmpty(aspNetCoreElement, "stdoutLogEnabled", "false");
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration.Tools/project.json b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration.Tools/project.json
index 386d2cba1c..99b1acc3d5 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration.Tools/project.json
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration.Tools/project.json
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
       "dependencies": {
         "Microsoft.NETCore.App": {
           "type": "platform",
-          "version": "1.0.0-*"
+          "version": "1.0.0-rc2-23931"
         }
       }
     }
diff --git a/src/dotnet-publish-iis/WebConfigTransform.cs b/src/dotnet-publish-iis/WebConfigTransform.cs
index 5b5e34dec1..f25ac2b765 100644
--- a/src/dotnet-publish-iis/WebConfigTransform.cs
+++ b/src/dotnet-publish-iis/WebConfigTransform.cs
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Tools.PublishIIS
 
         private static void TransformHttpPlatform(XElement httpPlatformElement, string appName, bool configureForAzure)
         {
-            var appPath = Path.Combine(configureForAzure ? @"%home%\site" : "..", appName);
-            var logPath = Path.Combine(configureForAzure ? @"\\?\%home%\LogFiles" : @"..\logs", "stdout.log");
+            var appPath = Path.Combine(configureForAzure ? @"%home%\site" : "..", appName).Replace("/", "\\");
+            var logPath = Path.Combine(configureForAzure ? @"\\?\%home%\LogFiles" : @"..\logs", "stdout.log").Replace("/", "\\");
 
             httpPlatformElement.SetAttributeValue("processPath", appPath);
             SetAttributeValueIfEmpty(httpPlatformElement, "stdoutLogEnabled", "false");