Web Deploy error - "This method is not supported by this class"

Question

I have an MVC project which I am trying to deploy to one of our internally-hosted web front end servers via a TFS build process. Our server hosts the MS Deploy service, and other solutions deploy without problems to the same box. The parameters for the build
process are as follows:
/p:DeployOnBuild=True /p:DeployTarget=MsDeployPublish /p:MSDeployPublishMethod=WMSVC /p:MsDeployServiceUrl=https://<server>:8172/msdeploy.axd /p:DeployIISAppPath="<internal.site.com>" /p:username=<username> /p:password=<password>
/p:IncludeIisSettingsOnPublish=false /p:AllowUntrustedCertificate=True /p:OutputPath=bin\ /p:SkipExtraFilesOnServer=True /p:VisualStudioVersion=11.0
The error message I receive at the point the build reaches the deployment activity is:
Web deployment task failed. (Could not complete the request to remote agent URL 'https://<server>:8172/msdeploy.axd?site=<internal.site.com>'.)
Could not complete the request to remote agent URL 'https://<server>:8172/msdeploy.axd?site=<internal.site.com>'.
The request was aborted: The request was canceled.
This method is not supported by this class.
We've found
this StackOverflow post which describes the same error we're experiencing, however the suggested solution is something we already do in our server configuration, so this doesn't resolve the issue for us.
Has anyone seen this error before, or is able to make any suggestions why it is happening?

Answer 1

Hi Matt,
You have to have a look in the build log then copy the command that is under Run MSBuild node and executed it on the build agent.
You should find something like below:
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\bin\amd64\MSBuild.exe /nologo /noconsolelogger "C:\Builds\....sln" /nr:False /fl /flp:"logfile=C:\Builds\...log;encoding=Unicode;verbosity=normal" /p:SkipInvalidConfigurations=true /p:CreatePackageOnPublish=true /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:SkipExtraFilesOnServer=True /m /p:OutDir="C:\Builds\...\bin\\" /p:Configuration="DEV" /p:Platform="Any CPU" /p:VCBuildOverride="C:\Builds\....sln.Any CPU.DEV.vsprops" /dl:WorkflowCentralLogger,"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 12.0\Tools\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Server.Logger.dll";"Verbosity=Normal;BuildUri=vstfs:///Build/Build/31630;IgnoreDuplicateProjects=False;InformationNodeId=14;TargetsNotLogged=GetNativeManifest,GetCopyToOutputDirectoryItems,GetTargetPath;LogProjectNodes=True;LogWarnings=True;TFSUrl=http://...-tfs:8080/tfs/...;"*WorkflowForwardingLogger,"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 12.0\Tools\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Server.Logger.dll";"Verbosity=Normal;" /p:BuildId="aa2d3857-27e9-4854-b44f-4ca625ccd786,vstfs:///Build/Build/31630" /p:BuildLabel="..._2015.02.27.2" /p:BuildTimestamp="Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:16:41 GMT" /p:BuildDefinition="..."
Daniel