Azure Web App Deployment error via msdeploy - ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_A CCESS_TO_SITE_FOLDER

Question

I have been deploying to my Azure Web App for about 4 months now, using msdeploy, and everything has been smooth sailing to upload the website. Until recently, there has been n

Answer 1

It was happening for me too when I was deploying from Octopus to an Azure Web App by stopping the instance. But the w3wp scm process was still using the file. So I had to kill it by going to Process Explorer.

Before killing it search the process which is using the file by searching from File Handle