TFS 2015 U1 vNext build Publish Artifact always fails with the inability to associate an artifact with a resource

Question

When we try to complete any vNext assembly with the Artifact publish task, we get the following error:

##[error]Unable to associate artifact with resource at location:[location]

Log output example

1 
2016-01-21T19:29:49.9838278Z Executing the powershell script: D:\Agent\tasks\PublishBuildArtifacts\1.0.4\PublishBuildArtifacts.ps1

2 
2016-01-21T19:29:50.1713333Z Preparing artifact content in staging folder D:\Agent\_work\1\a...

3 
2016-01-21T19:29:50.2338323Z Copying all files from D:\Agent\_work\1\s\ASC\ASC-Dev\CSDChangeControlDispatcher to D:\Agent\_work\1\a\CSDChangeControlDispatcher\CSDChangeControlDispatcher

4 
2016-01-21T19:29:50.4838343Z Copying all files from D:\Agent\_work\1\s\ASC\ASC-Dev\PrecompiledWeb\CSDChangeControlDispatcher to D:\Agent\_work\1\a\CSDChangeControlDispatcher\PrecompiledWeb\CSDChangeControlDispatcher

5 
2016-01-21T19:29:50.5150903Z Copying artifact content to D:\BuildDrop\ASC Dev vNext\20160121.7...

6 
2016-01-21T19:29:50.9369728Z Start: AssociateArtifact

7 
2016-01-21T19:29:50.9369728Z ##[error]Unable to associate artifact with resource at location:D:\BuildDrop\ASC Dev vNext\20160121.7.

8 
2016-01-21T19:29:50.9369728Z End: AssociateArtifact

Answer 1

The problem is that you specify the artifact publishing path as "D: \ BuildDrop \ ASC Dev vNext \ 20160121.7".

You should use "\\ my \ share" in the Path element instead of an absolute path.