Web deployment task failed. (Unknown ProviderOption:DefiningProjectFullPath. Known ProviderOptions are:skipInvalid.)

Question

I tried to publish a web project from Visual Studio 2013 but kept getting this error using web deploy.

Web deployment task failed. Unknown ProviderOption: DefiningProjectFullPath. Known ProviderOptions are:skipInvalid.

Answer 1

I had the same issue after installing update 4 for Visual Studio 2013.

Solution: Install the Visual Studio update on the build server.

Answer 2

I had the same error.

I got this error after installing TFS RM Update2. What you need to do is replace the contents of "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\Web" on your build server with the contents of that same folder on your development pc.

This worked for me anyways.