This error usually occurs when you try to deploy an IIS app when the app is still up and running. Sometimes just redeploying it from Azure Devops would deploy it without any issues. But...
Sometimes you may get an error saying failed to create Release Artifact directory and even if you redeploy so many times you will still get an error like this Failed to create Release Artifact...
Generally the default YAML uses the Azure pipelines agent and you may need to change it.So instead of something like this To use a private agent, use the one below
