MSDeploy fails: "existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host"

Question

The following MSDeploy line provided on the command line results in an error. Can anyone shed some light on this?

"C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy\\msdeploy.exe" -source:package='D:\dev\Project\obj\BuildConfiguration\Package\Project.zip' -dest:auto='Website Name',computerName='computername',userName='username',password='password' -verb:sync -enableRule:DoNotDeleteRule -allowUntrusted -debug 

Stack trace:

 Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentAgentUnavailableException: Could not complete the request to remote agent URL 'http://computername/MSDEPLOYAGENTSERVICE'. ---> System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive. ---> System.IO.IOException: Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size) at System.Net.PooledStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size) at System.Net.Connection.SyncRead(HttpWebRequest request, Boolean userRetrievedStream, Boolean probeRead) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.AgentClientProvider.GetHttpResponse(HttpWebRequest request) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.AgentClientProvider.GetHttpResponse(HttpWebRequest request) at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.AgentClientProvider.CreateStatusThread(DeploymentSyncContext syncContext) at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.AgentClientProvider.RemoteDestSync(DeploymentObject sourceObject, DeploymentSyncContext syncContext) at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentObject.SyncToInternal(DeploymentObject destObject, DeploymentSyncOptions syncOptions, PayloadTable payloadTable, ContentRootTable contentRootTable) at Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentObject.SyncTo(DeploymentProviderOptions providerOptions, DeploymentBaseOptions baseOptions, DeploymentSyncOptions syncOptions) at MSDeploy.MSDeploy.ExecuteWorker() Error count: 1. 

Answer 1

The reason was a combination of things - the problem of internal DNS resolution, which means that the host name was corrected with the wrong IP address, plus we should use IIS6, and I believe that there was a problem with the location of the required http agent for msdeploy on the same port as existing websites.

The solution was to specify the IP address and reinstall the Deployment Service (WebDeploy) from the command line, specifying the user endpoint to avoid an IIS conflict.

My work spell:

 "C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy\msdeploy.exe" -verb:sync -source:package=D:\Path\obj\Configuration\Package\Project.zip -dest:auto,computerName='http://192.168.x.xxx:8090/MsDeployAgentService2/' -allowUntrusted -setParam:"IIS Web Application Name"="Website Name In IIS"