Could not connect to remote computer web deploy ERROR_DESTINATION_NOT_REACHABLE

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I am trying to configure Web Deploy 3.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with SP1 installed on it. When I try to validate connection using Visual Studio 2013 to publish a website it throws the following error.

Could not connect to remote computer (computer name). Make sure Web Management Service is started.
Learn more at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkId=221672#ERROR_DESTINATION_NOT_REACHABLE

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And I have tried everything found on all the forums as follows. And I have also done this before at a different job and every time it worked just fine.

  1. Made sure Web Management Service is started and set to Automatic
  2. Made sure that Web Deployment Agent Service is started and set to Automaticenter image description here
  3. Web Deploy 3.5 is installed
  4. I have tried installing different version of Web Deploy 3.5 too like the hosting versions.
  5. I checked if the firewall port for Web Management Service is listening on 8172 port (see image below).enter image description here
  6. The .Net Framework version I think that is not an issue.
  7. I have also made sure that during installation of Web Deploy 3.5 all the components are installed.
  8. When I click on the server node inside IIS and inside Web Management Service it also says Enable Remote connection
  9. I have also checked if users are delegated to publish on that website.
  10. I don't find any logs inside C:\inetpub\logs\wmsvc either.

I cannot ping the 8172/webdeploy.axd url. Is there any other service that could be listening on some port that I am missing. Something is odd here. I cannot see any traffic going through even Fiddler from my local machine. I have tried to paste the .axd url on the server's internet explorer and it still cannot reach it and doesn't say anything.

More Finding:

I tried to connect using Telnet client and it says: Could not open connection to the host, on port 8172: Connect failed. Somewhere it is blocked and I have no idea where to look for.

Best Answer

A comment on this answer at stackoverflow got me on the right track with this same error message if anyone else comes across this and the other answers don't help: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13871041/1128742.

Not only does web deploy need to be installed, but the IIS Deployment Handler subitem needs enabled. Open up Add/remove programs > Microsoft Web Deploy > Change > make sure IIS Deployment Handler is Enabled. enter image description here

Web deploy was working for us then we applied some windows updates and it stopped working suddenly, this was the culprit.

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