Unable to execute IIS Administration commands on remote machine from Visual Studio Team Services (was Visual Studio Online) Build

Question

I have a set of power-shell scripts for managing the entire deployment. We migrated our entire codebase to Visual Studio Team Services (previously VS Online) and I am trying to get the entire deployment automation.

The steps I am following on high level are :

• Restore the packages and build the solutions
• Package the artifacts required in to a single folder (includes binaries, scripts, dacpac etc)
• Copy the package to a azure vm using azure file copy
• Execute the scripts on target machine

The issue I am facing is - none of the IIS Administration commands are executing on the remote machine. e.g. Remove-WebSite/Remove-WebAppPool are not working.

I do not see any error also being thrown by these commands.

Is there anything specific which needs to be enabled to run these commands.

NOTE : I am able to get the same scripts working fine when I run from the server directly. The issue is only when I am using the run 'powershell on target machine' on build steps of Team Services.

Answer 1

Based on your comment, the solution is run quickconfig on winrm and restart the machine.