An error coming at random times on Azure Web App Deployment, release management task. When error occurred, message says “An error occurred when the request was processed on the remote computer”.
Bit of investigation revealed, the region of the Azure Web App is actually in “South US”, and another in “Central Canada” while the relevant deployment step (Azure Web App Deployment), having “East US”.
Fixing this to have correct region as per web app, resolved random failures in web app deployment.
In order to run ASP.Net Core 1.0 in IIS you need to setup IIS with HttpPlatformHandler instructions are here. IIS configurations for ASP.NET Core 1.0 can be found here.
Follow the below steps to use msdeploy to deploy ASP.NET Core 1.0 from a remote machine
1. Install web deploy 3.5, using webpi in remote IIS machine. Make sure you have availability of Deploy menu in IIS. (close and open IIS)
2. Now install Web deploy 3.6 in the IIS machine, hosting the web site.
3. Configure web deploy publishing for the site.
4. In IIS machine hosting the site, create a user say “deployadmin” and add it to administrators group.
5. Setup deployment execution machine with web deploy 3.5 and the with web deploy 3.6 using webpi
6. Using the below PS script you can deploy the site. To run this script powershell 5.0 is required. Download powershell 5.0 from here.
.\DeploySite.ps1 -MSDeployPath "C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3" -packageWWWRoot "C:\temp\Portal\wwwroot" -websiteName DeployTest -targetFQDN yourserver.yourdomain -deployUser yourserver\deployadminuser -deployUserPwd deplyuserpwd
param($MSDeployPath, $packageWWWRoot, $websiteName, $targetFQDN, $deployUser, $deployUserPwd) . "$MSDeployPath\msdeploy" -verb:sync -source:iisapp=$packageWWWRoot -dest:iisapp="$websiteName",computerName=$targetFQDN,username=$deployUser,password=$deployUserPwd -enablelink:contentlibextension -allowUntrusted
To solve the issue ERROR_USER_NOT_ADMIN follow the instructions here.
Registry fix (bit of a hack) for target IIS machine.
