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

Note that there is a bug in Web Deploy 2.0 (even the refresh) that does not allow users within the admin group to authenticate. Only domain admins and the administrator account itself can authenticate to web deploy. See the ERROR_USER_NOT_ADMIN error code on the following page: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/1023/web-deploy-error-codes/