TFS Agent remove from powershell

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My TFS just upgraded to 2017 and I didn't find old agent and system is not allowing me to create new agent unit I remove old one I executed following cmd for remove .\config.cmd then Enter authentication type (press enter for Integrated) > the click enter Failed: Removing agent from the server An error occurred while sending the request.

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could you please me suggest where I am wrong?

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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According to your error message, it fails because the old build agent is trying to reach out to the original url to remove itself from the agent pool. But you have upgraded to 2017 and the TFS server url should be changed or not be reached.

In this case, you could try to Delete/rename the .agent file of the old build agent and then try to unconfigure again.

More details please take a look at this similar issue: Force removal of TFS 2017 build agent

Update:

First please make sure you could see hidden files on the build machine, delete the .agent and .credentialsfile, then call config remove again. This should remove the service from your local machine and will allow you to reconfigure the agent.

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answered Jun 05 '18 at 10:05

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Thanks for updating – Shoaibmqureshi Jun 05 '18 at 16:25
Where I can find .agent find?? – Shoaibmqureshi Jun 05 '18 at 16:26
@Shoaibmqureshi Sorry for the later reply, `.agent` file is hidden by default. You need to make sure you could see the hidden files in the file system on TFS build server. Then delete those files and call config remove again. More details please see my update answer. – PatrickLu-MSFT Jun 11 '18 at 06:02

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