SharePoint User Group UK

Hi,

Having set up a content deployment job across two web apps, everything seems in order until I press 'Run now'. I have created two site collections (one on each app), with the destination a blank team site. SSL is switched off across all applications and I have all the time zones in sync.

OK, having press 'Run now', the job begins running and then fails with the following message:

The remote upload Web request failed.

I have replicated the same setup on a standalone computer and the process succeeds.

I have seen this question asked elsewhere in the forum, however I couldn't find an answer and wondered whether anyone could help.

Best regards,

Tommo

Hi,

I had the same issue. I checked the Event Viewer Application Log and found Office Sharepoint Server errors simlar to following;

"Publishing: Content deployment job failed. Error: 'System.Net.WebException: The remote name could not be resolved: 'web01.pfizer.emea'"

I'm publishing from one domain (source) to a machine on another domain (target). Basically, my source was not aware of my target. I made an entry into my Source machine's host file point mapping the target machine to it's IP address and this resolved my issue.

Further more, I did try de-activating all of the farm features in the target machine (having read another post about this issue somewhere) but that did not have any effect of my particular issue.

Thanks,
Ian.

Thanks Ian,

We have two web applications running on one server and are simply trying to deploy content between them. We're using non-SSL sites and have the destination site collection as a blank site (basically following all available good practice). Do you think the same problem might apply?

The event log offers it up as being a 'http 503 service unavailable' error, but it does perhaps suggest it might have a similar cause behind it.

Many thanks,

Michael

I don't know if anyone can make sense of these, but these are the server events that occur during the failed process - sorry for the long post. There are basically four error events whenever the job is run (reverse chronological order):

The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration.ContentDeploymentJobDefinition (ID 89e39c81-72da-43a9-9abf-9c947c0ba08e) threw an exception. More information is included below.

The request failed with HTTP status 503: Service Unavailable.
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Publishing: Content deployment job failed. Error: 'System.Net.WebException: The request failed with HTTP status 503: Service Unavailable.
   at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
   at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.Administration.ContentDeploymentRemoteImportSoapClient.CreateJob(String description, String sourceId, String destinationServerUrl, String destinationSiteCollection, SPIncludeSecurity includeSecurity, SPImportUserInfoDateTimeOption includeUserInfoDateTime, Boolean enableEventReceivers)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration.ContentDeploymentJob.DoServerToServer()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration.ContentDeploymentJob.ExecuteJob()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration.ContentDeploymentJob.Run(Boolean runAsynchronously)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration.ContentDeploymentJobDefinition.Execute(Guid targetInstanceId)'
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Publishing: Content deployment job failed. Error: 'System.Net.WebException: The request failed with HTTP status 503: Service Unavailable.
   at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
   at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.Administration.ContentDeploymentRemoteImportSoapClient.CreateJob(String description, String sourceId, String destinationServerUrl, String destinationSiteCollection, SPIncludeSecurity includeSecurity, SPImportUserInfoDateTimeOption includeUserInfoDateTime, Boolean enableEventReceivers)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration.ContentDeploymentJob.DoServerToServer()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration.ContentDeploymentJob.ExecuteJob()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration.ContentDeploymentJob.Run(Boolean runAsynchronously)'
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Failed to communicate with destination server for Content Deployment job 'Quick Deploy job for path 'Path1''. Exception was: 'System.Net.WebException: The request failed with HTTP status 503: Service Unavailable.
   at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
   at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.Administration.ContentDeploymentRemoteImportSoapClient.CreateJob(String description, String sourceId, String destinationServerUrl, String destinationSiteCollection, SPIncludeSecurity includeSecurity, SPImportUserInfoDateTimeOption includeUserInfoDateTime, Boolean enableEventReceivers)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Administration.ContentDeploymentJob.DoServerToServer()'