Not able to publish website on Windows Azure using publish through VS2010

Question

I am facing this problem when I try to publish my web application on Windows Azure via Visual Studio 2010. I am trying by right click on project and select publish and importing

Answer 1

When you are trying to publish your web application from VS2010 to Windows Azure Websites, the publish process connect to Windows Azure Websites on specific port which is enabled for Web Deploy service. In VS 2010 if the connection to this service port is failed then VS return error as "Web Deploy is installed........ on remote server. The fact is that the WebDeploy service is already running and other machines could connect to the same server and deploy the problem is specific to your network and your machine.

There are two main place to look for 1) your deployment machine firewall 2) Proxy server if you are behind proxy. Try to change the network related settings locally so you can get it working.

Answer 2

For me publishing start working after network reconnect.

Answer 3

I want to share my solution with the same problem. Also MsDepSvc (Web Deployment Agent Service) and WMSvc (Web Management Service) were running on the remote VM and Visual Studio 2015 still returns an error.

I go to Azure portal > All Resources > Find my Network Security Group and click on it. > Inbound security rules and add new rule:

Name: your choice.
Source: Any.
Service: Custom
Protocol: Any
Port range: 8172
Action : Allow

Answer 4

Resetting your "publish profile" also works :) You can reset it from the Azure Portal at your web app.

Answer 5

I do not save the password in my publish profile. Even after checking and double checking the password from the portal and entering it when prompted, the publish failed. I knew the problem had something to do with the password because I could enter any bogus password and still get the same exact publish failed error.

What I did was click "Configure" on the publish tab of my project and click on "Validate Connection" on the "Connection" tab after entering the credentials again.

It was able to validate successfully and all subsequent publishes have been successful as well.

Answer 6

For those that the answer didn't work for (like me). Alternatively you can set an app setting in your Azure Website:

1. Set WEBSITE_WEBDEPLOY_USE_SCM = false in Azure Management Portal settings (under Website → Configuration → Application Settings). Make sure false is in the value field.

2. Download the publish settings again in VS or whatever you use to deploy.

3. Deploy successfully.

Taken from:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/efa56eb2-a8b2-4690-92d0-33d97946ed29/cant-deploy-could-not-connect-to-the-remote-computer-xxxscmazurewebsitesnet-using-the?forum=windowsazurewebsitespreview