How do I reconfigure Azure DevOps agent on server (windows OS)?

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Agent which was configured to run as service earlier needs to be reconfigured to run interactively.

When I am trying to run agent's config.cmd as administrator to reconfigure the agent then a blank window in command prompt opens and gets closed by itself. There is nothing I see more than that.

I want to know the way we can reconfigure the agent.

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 17 '19 at 06:23

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Open a regular cmd as administrator, then cd to the agent folder, then run config.cmd.

But when you will do it you will get a message that the agent already configured and you need to remove it and re-configure. so run config.cmd remove, after it run again config.cmd.

answered Jul 17 '19 at 06:23

Shayki Abramczyk

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Thanks a lot. Do you know how can we check the current configuration of azure devops agent before reconfiguring it? – Vaibhav Dhasmana Jul 18 '19 at 06:55
Which configuration you need to know? – Shayki Abramczyk Jul 18 '19 at 06:56
I want to know by which user name agent is running on server – Vaibhav Dhasmana Jul 18 '19 at 06:58
@VaibhavDhasmana Go to the agent pools, there search the agent and check the capabilities – Shayki Abramczyk Jul 18 '19 at 07:41
this doesn't work for me config.cmd remove just hangs – johnstaveley Feb 24 '21 at 15:48
Removing/renaming the .agent file solved that problem for me, @johnstaveley : https://stackoverflow.com/a/42957540/2915851 – veuncent Sep 06 '22 at 11:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 07 '23 at 03:51

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Run below command

.\config.cmd remove

answered Jul 07 '23 at 03:51

Shakeer Hussain

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How do I reconfigure Azure DevOps agent on server (windows OS)?

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