I am trying to use VS2010\'s 1-Click Publish feature to deploy a test site from my laptop to my server. I have the firewall turned off on both machines and the MS Deployment
I got 404 from a IE browser from https:// servername:8172/MsDeploy.axd
But Chrome did not make trouble.
This can be the first test to see if you can reach the Web Management service on the server at all. In other words: When chome worked (it responded with a blank page), then you have hole through to the service on the server.
Still you also need to have permission to deploy to the specific site. In IIS find the site and do that in "IIS Manager Permissions" under Management.