MSDeploy triggers 401 Access denied error when trying to synch a site.

Question

I try to push/sync a IIS Site from a Win2003 Server to another.

This is my command:

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:metakey=lm/w3svc/68512112 -dest:metakey=lm/w3svc/68512112,computername=backup-09,username=Administrator,password=PASSWORD -whatif > msdeploysync.log

I also tried the following

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:metakey=lm/w3svc/68512112 -dest:metakey=lm/w3svc/68512112,computername=backup-09,username=BACKUP-09\Administrator,password=PASSWORD -whatif > msdeploysync.log

I also tried

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:metakey=lm/w3svc/68512112 -dest:metakey=lm/w3svc/68512112,computername=backup-09,username=Administrator@BACKUP-09,password=PASSWORD -whatif > msdeploysync.log

This is the error:

Fatal: Request to remote agent URL 'http://backup-09/MSDEPLOYAGENTSERVICE' failed.

Fatal: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. Fatal count: 1

• I did run msdeploy/cmd as an administrator.
• I did try to access http://backup-09/MSDEPLOYAGENTSERVICE, it asked for my permissions, I entered the credentials above, it worked (empty site displayed).
• This is Beta 2 of MSDeploy

Can anyone help me?

I now even set up a domain controller for all the servers... still the same issues, whether I'm logged in as a domain controller, supply the local accounts, all variations trigger a 401

Answer 1

Have you found an answer? I'm having the same issue.