Deployment Solution

Hello all I am encountering a very strange problem recently, this has only popped up in the last couple weeks. It seems almost everytime I try to run a task for the first time it fails, but then if I re-run it after it works. Its a very annoying problem and it has happened every single time today, where I am uninstalling an MSI file (using the copy file task).

Could this be slow network performance?

Paul, you can create two job with the same task and can chain the second job on failure to the first job. This might fix the issue but you would have to find out why the MSI package is unable to uninstall in the first place.

What is the return code you are getting?

What does the client say it's doing for the first task?  Does it get the task at all?

What if you try a different task type, like Script tasks - do they have the same problem?

Are you using Site Servers, or just the NS to connect to from the client for Task?

It's possible you have either communication issues, or performance issue "gumming up the system" so-to-speak.