diff --git a/Kudu.Services/Deployment/PushDeploymentController.cs b/Kudu.Services/Deployment/PushDeploymentController.cs
index 87a36eae..12b7c0cf 100644
--- a/Kudu.Services/Deployment/PushDeploymentController.cs
+++ b/Kudu.Services/Deployment/PushDeploymentController.cs
@@ -432,8 +432,8 @@ private string GetArticfactURLFromARMJSON(JObject requestObject)
             {
                 try
                 {
-                    // ARM template should have properties field and a packageUri field inside the properties field.
-                    string packageUri = requestObject.Value<JObject>("properties").Value<string>("packageUri");
+                    // ARM template should have properties field and a packageUri field inside the properties field.                   
+                    string packageUri = requestObject.Value<JObject>("properties") != null ? requestObject.Value<JObject>("properties").Value<string>("packageUri") : requestObject.Value<string>("packageUri");
                     if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(packageUri))
                     {
                         throw new ArgumentException("Invalid Url in the JSON request");
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ private async Task<IActionResult> PushDeployAsync(ArtifactDeploymentInfo deploym
                         FileSystemHelpers.RemoveUnixSymlink(nodeModulesSymlinkFile, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
                     }
                 }
-                catch(Exception)
+                catch (Exception)
                 {
                     // best effort
                 }
@@ -767,10 +767,10 @@ private void ExtractTriggers(IRepository repository, ArtifactDeploymentInfo zipD
             // takes 20 seconds to load. On my machine it takes 900 msec.
             using (var zip = ZipFile.OpenRead(Path.Combine(_environment.SitePackagesPath, zipDeploymentInfo.ArtifactFileName)))
             {
-                var entries = zip.Entries
-                    // Only select host.json, proxies.json, or function.json that are from top level directories only
-                    // Tested with a zip containing 120k files, and this took 90 msec
-                    // on my machine.
+                var entries = zip.Entries
+                    // Only select host.json, proxies.json, or function.json that are from top level directories only
+                    // Tested with a zip containing 120k files, and this took 90 msec
+                    // on my machine.
                     .Where(e =>
                         e.FullName.Equals(Constants.FunctionsHostConfigFile, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) ||
                         e.FullName.Equals(Constants.ProxyConfigFile, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) ||