I just wrote a blog post to answer this at http://sedodream.com/2012/08/20/WebDeployMSDeployHowToSyncAFolder.aspx. From your question it looks like you are pretty familiar with MSDeploy so the answer might be a bit verbose but I wanted people with less knowledge of MSDeploy to be able to understand. I’ve pasted the answer below. Web Deploy (aka MSDeploy) uses … Read more
WebDeploy 3.6 prerequisites for Import / Export Web Application slightly changed and more rights need to be given for web management to enable these options again. Here are the steps to allow it again in Windows Server 2012 R2 (and Windows Server 2016): Using Server Manager get to Add Roles and Features. Pick ‘Management Service’ … Read more
I found this posting where the individual had the same problem. Turns out that he needed to install “Web Deploy 3.5 for Hosting Servers” on top of the other Web Deploy packages in web platform installer. Once I did this and restarted IIS the option became available. Seems counter-intuitive to me since I am not … Read more
I had the same problem with Web Deploy 3.5 when I installed it with “Web Platform Installer 5.0” When I tried to publish from Visual Studio I got this error: ————————— Microsoft Visual Studio ————————— Could not connect to the remote computer (“10.0.3.102”) using the specified process (“Web Management Service”) because the server did not … Read more
I had the exact same problem, it turned out I had installed Web Deploy 3.6 on top of 3.5. Remove Web Deploy 3.6 and reinstall 3.5 and see if it solves your issue. You can also try @james-wilkins comment below: “In my case I installed Web Deploy BEFORE installing the management service…”