Rajeev Pentyala – Microsoft Power Platform

Recently when we were trying to publish a web site to Azure ‘Deployment Slot’ using Visual Studio “Web Deploy” option, we encountered either Time out exception or VS hung after few files push.

Reason for this exception could be due to the enormous transactions on main (Prod) web app of the ‘Deployment Slot’.

Work around:

• We found a work around by using Drag and Drop feature of Kudu service deploying to wwwroot folder directly.

Steps:

• Publish the web site to your machines local drive

• ZIP the files (***You must select all the files and Zip it; Don’t zip the folder)

• Open the Deployment Slot’s Kudu Service (Go to ‘Advanced Tools’ -> Go)

• On the Kudu page, navigate to Home -> site -> wwwroot
• Drag and drop the zipped folder of your published web site.

• Wait for the process to complete publish.

🙂