Visual Studio 2010 Web deployment task failed

Question

I am trying to use VS2010\'s 1-Click Publish feature to deploy a test site from my laptop to my server. I have the firewall turned off on both machines and the MS Deployment

Answer 1

I was getting similar errors from VS 2013 and found a fix I did not see mentioned any of the other answers.

Errors:

• The underlying connection was closed
• Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host, from the build server (TFS 2010).

Fix:

The fix in my case was to re-enable TLS 1.0 on the target. It's a registry key but I am using the free IISCrypto applet for this.

Answer 2

Make sure you have set Site/Application correctly in publish profile:

You get the same error message if you spell site or application name wrong.

Answer 3

Like a dummy, this error was throwing for me because I hadn't installed the Remote Web Agent as part of the Web Deployment Tool available here.