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Reputation: 417

TFS 2017 update Agent pool V 1 to V2.x

I am trying to update the build agent (TFS 2017) from V1.x to V2.x what i tries are:

I followed these steps 'https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/pipelines/agents/v2-windows?view=vsts' but the issue is my url is http not https.

1) is there any easy way to update the build agent instead above link because setting https getting connectivity/cert issues.

Do i have only PAT is the only option? any thing else apart from PAT to update the build agent. i even tries 'update all' nothing happens and no errors.

any help would be great-full. Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 414

Answers (1)

PatrickLu-MSFT
PatrickLu-MSFT

Reputation: 51153

No matter you are using http or https, you could both update build agents properly. If directly entire the url in the browser could not reach the right page.

You could also try to navigate to http://yourserver:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/_projects page and clcick the configuration button, select the Agent Pools in the drop down list.

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Back to the original requirement, according to Daniel Steiner there are 2 kinds of agents:

  • Windows specific agents (version 1.x)
  • cross platform agents (version 2.x)

In TFS 2017 the Windows specific agents (version 1.x) are deprecated. Thus they won't be updated from the agent queues admin area. So you have to download the agent from tfs (or github) and install it yourself. After initial installation/configuration the agent updates via tfs should work again. It would have been cool if they automated that process or at least said what to do in tfs.

Upvotes: 1

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