Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server or TFS) is the latest iteration of Microsoft's DevOps and ALM product suite which contains source control (Azure Repos), CI/CD (Azure Pipelines), agile work and portfolio management (Azure Boards) etc. The current version of Azure DevOps Server is 2020. Use this tag for questions on the 2019 on-prem version, as opposed to Azure DevOps Service, which is the cloud version.
Questions tagged [azure-devops-server-2019]
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How to uninstall or remove configuration of a deployment pool or deployment agent
I am using Azure DevOps Server (TFS), and I register deployment pool agents in my test and production servers, now iIneed to uninstall or remove the configuration on my server and in my UI how can I do that there are a script to run or just delete…
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Azure DevOps Server pipeline build fails when using self-signed SSL certificate with "unable to get local issuer certificate" during NuGet restore
After upgrading to Azure DevOps Server 2019, automated pipeline builds are failing at the NuGet restore step showing:
Error: Error: unable to get local issuer certificate
Packages failed to restore
Microsoft's documentation states that the build…
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Azure DevOps: build artifact download error "Error: in getBuildApi, so retrying => retries pending : 4"
I got this error when using the task 'Download Build Artifact' in the release pipeline of devops server 2019 or devops server 2020:
Error: in getBuildApi, so retrying => retries pending : 4
Detailed errors can be found when using diagnostic logging…
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How can I set a Azure DevOps Pipeline Varible which contains the date in this Format: 25.07.2020
I'm not using yaml, because my company uses TFVC, so I need the classic way.
With $[pipeline.startTime] I get the starttime, but now I need it formated in this way: dd.MM.yyyy
A powershellscript like in VSO(TFS) - get current date time as variable…
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How To Choose Preferred Visual Studio Version When Cloning From Azure DevOps
My colleagues and I have several versions of Visual Studio installed which — for business reasons — we may need to keep for some time. For some teammates an inconvenient version of Visual Studio will open when cloning a git repository from Azure…
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Automatically promote a nuget packge using a relese definition
In onprem Azure DevOps (Version 17.143.28621.4) is there a way to automatically promote a nuget package from one view to another using a task in a release definition?
When we trigger a release for a build, the artefacts (i.e. nuget packages) go…
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Azure Artifacts Private npm Feed Authentication Failed
A few months ago I created a private npm feed in Azure Artifacts. Authentication with this feed worked fine.
Recently others have started using this feed and authentication is not working for them using the tokens they have generated from Azure…
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Azure Devops - Markdown Support In User Story Description / Acceptance Criteria Fields?
My company is looking to streamline User Story documentation in DevOps's Agile workflow. Is there a way to use markdown formatting in Description / Acceptance Criteria fields in DevOps? It is far more flexible and powerful than the WYSIWYG editor…
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Release Agent Configuration necessary for Web App Add task
To create a directory under and add a web app to IIS, I put this script in Azure DevOps Server Deployment Group job Powershell task:
New-Item -Path "C:\inetpub\wwwroot" -Name "MyNewApp" -ItemType "directory" `
C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe…
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Can I upload existing NuGet packages to an Azure DevOps artifacts feed?
I'm currently migrating from TFS 2012 to Azure DevOps 2019 (both on-premise). With the old server, I would manually create NuGet packages from some of our builds, and host these .nupkg files on a file share (configured as a package source in Visual…
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Using VS2019 with TFS2018 vnext build system
Does anybody know if it is possible to use VS2019 with TFS2018 vnext build system.
You cannot select VS2019 in the build definition, but you can select "Latest" as version for Visual Studio.
Unfortunately, this does not select VS2019.
I have tested…
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Using inherited process model for existing collection on Azure DevOps Server 2019
With Azure DevOps Server 2019 RC it is possible to enable inherited process model on new collections (see release notes). Is there any way to use the inherited process model also for existing collections, where no customization on the process was…
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'Allow duplicates to be skipped' warning and 409 error for NuGet push on Azure DevOps Server
In Azure DevOps Server (version 2019.0.1) running on a Windows Server 2019 agent, with the 'Allow duplicates to be skipped' option selected for NuGet push task, a warning is displayed:
The 'Allow duplicates to be skipped' option is currently only…
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How to use Azure DevOps Extension for Azure CLI with Azure DevOps Server?
The Azure CLI with the Azure DevOps extension has replaced the VSTS CLI. But I can't find any sample on how to connect to Team Foundation Server (TFS) or Azure DevOps Server using Azure CLI with Azure DevOps extension.
I tried to create a PAT on my…
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How can we copy a bulk of workitems from one project to another in Azure Devops?
I need to copy a list of work items from one project to another project within an organisation in Azure Devops, is that possible? how to do that?
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