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Hi ,

We were facing this issue while deploying a package into test machine. The deployment was stopped at step 4 with the error:

"The running command stopped because the preference variable "ErrorActionPreference" or common parameter is set to Stop: A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'Package deployment failed as the extraction of the package zip file failed."

Looking at the Runbook file, the step 4 mentioned file named "AutoUpdateAOSService.ps1".

<Step>
      <ID>4</ID>
      <RunbookID>XYZ-runbook</RunbookID>
      <MachineName>XYZ</MachineName>
      <ServiceModelName>AOSService</ServiceModelName>
      <ScriptToExecute>
        <FileName>AutoUpdateAOSService.ps1</FileName>
        <Automated>true</Automated>
        <Description>update AOS service</Description>
      </ScriptToExecute>
      <DependentStepIDList>
        <string>3</string>
      </DependentStepIDList>
      <StepType>Update</StepType>
    </Step>
    <Step>

Then drilling down further, I reached to the file named "dynamicspackagemanagement.psm1". This file is located in "J:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory\InstallationRecords\dynamicsax-<packageName>\tools\dynamicspackagemanagement.psm1".

function Install-AxPackage([string] $packageName, [string] $zipName, [string] $installPath, [string] $fileDrop,[string]$log)
{
    $Global:log=$log
    Initialize-Log	
    Write-Log "Install-AxPackage($packageName, $zipName, $installPath, $fileDrop, $log)"

	# Handle compile metadata
	$packageId = Get-PackageId -zipName:$zipName
	if ($packageId.EndsWith('-compile'))
    {
        $installPath = Join-Path $installPath 'XppMetadata'
    }

	Write-Log "Got install target dir '$installPath'"
	$packageId = Get-PackageId -zipName:$zipName
    $contentZip = Join-Path $fileDrop $zipName
	Write-Log "Unzipping file at '$contentZip' to '$installPath'"

    $dynamicstoolsdir= join-path $env:SystemDrive "DynamicsTools"
	$zipLocation = Join-Path $dynamicstoolsdir "7za.exe"

    if(!(Test-Path $zipLocation)){
        throw "Package deployment failed as the required Dynamics tools are missing at '$dynamicstoolsdir'."
    }
	
	Write-Log "Start-Process $zipLocation -ArgumentList `"x $contentZip -o$installPath -y -mmt`" -WindowStyle Hidden -PassThru"
	$zip = Start-Process $zipLocation -ArgumentList "x $contentZip -o$installPath -y -mmt" -Wait -WindowStyle Hidden -PassThru
	if($zip.ExitCode -ne "0")
	{
		throw "Package deployment failed as the extraction of the package zip file failed."
	}
}

The text was found in that tile "Package deployment failed as the extraction of the package zip file failed." So I started debugging through windows powershell ISE. When I reached that particular condition which throws this error, I found out that the path to zip file which is located at "C:DeployablePackage\AOSService\Packages\files\<modelName>.zip" did not get the full path because it was truncated due to long directory path. the path was around 125 chars. I decided to change the name of root folder to make it a small. That worked for me.

Regards,

-Vishal Jevtani

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