Visual Studio 2010 Web deployment task failed

Question

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

Answer 1

This same message would occur almost at random when publishing projects from visual studio 2010.

The fix was to delete the $projectname.Publish.xml file (in the root directory of the project) and re-create it.