I'm somewhat in the same boat as the OP. I have a connection to our production instance of server manager but can't publish to it. I have a dev/uat connection that is setup almost exactly the same way that works to publish. I get an error saying "unable to connect to publishing tool service. Verify the service is up and running." I have verified it's running and was able to publish from server manager using the same SD file from my desktop. Any thoughts? Thanks.
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