diff --git a/Gruntfile.js b/Gruntfile.js
index b54e48c..a17d6ee 100644
--- a/Gruntfile.js
+++ b/Gruntfile.js
@@ -52,6 +52,13 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
 
     },
 
+    touch: {
+      options: {},
+      webconfig: {
+        src: ['D:\\dev\\projects\\imulus-neue\\src\\imulus.umbraco\\web.config']
+      }
+    },
+
     less: {
       build: {
         options: {
@@ -87,9 +94,10 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-copy');
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-uglify');
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-jshint');
+  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-touch');
 
-
-  grunt.registerTask('deploy', ['default', 'copy:deploy']);
+  grunt.registerTask('touchwebconfigifenabled', function() { if (grunt.option("touch")) grunt.task.run("touch:webconfig") });
+  grunt.registerTask('deploy', ['default', 'copy:deploy', 'touchwebconfigifenabled']);
   grunt.registerTask('css:build', ['less']);
   grunt.registerTask('js:build', ['concat']);
   grunt.registerTask('default', ['clean', 'css:build', 'js:build', 'copy:main']);
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3f406f8..940bf26 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -13,4 +13,6 @@ Archetype
 
 ## Deploy ##
     grunt deploy --target=C:\\path\\to\\umbraco\\site
-    grunt watch:dev --target=C:\\path\to\\umbraco\\site
\ No newline at end of file
+    grunt watch:dev --target=C:\\path\to\\umbraco\\site
+
+    * Add `--touch` to either command to automatically touch the web.config on a deploy
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 209ff87..8b9f64f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
     "grunt-contrib-watch": "~0.5.3",
     "grunt-contrib-jshint": "~0.7.2",
     "grunt-cli": "~0.1.11",
-    "grunt-contrib-clean": "~0.5.0"
+    "grunt-contrib-clean": "~0.5.0",
+    "grunt-touch": "~0.1.0"
   }
 }