Saturday, July 2, 2011

BRD Lite Rangers HOL–Web deployment task failed

Going through the HOL Lab for the BRD Lite Team Build process template, I received the error “Web deployment task failed” after changing the connection string to remove the ‘sqlExpress’ instance.  Yet it still failed, even when I changed it to run under the Admin account.  After turning on the Diagnostic detail, it turned out to be a different project issue:

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This was because I had to change the connection string in the web project properties under the Package/Publish SQL tab.  Once I removed the ‘sqlexpress’ value from the Data Source, my build succeeded.

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