Questions tagged [build-agent]

Automated Builds using the Team Foundation Server, executed on TFS build agents.

Questions related to TFS build agents, how to configure them, how to select them for builds.

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Cannot create a new build agent with team foundation server 2012

We recently upgraded to team foundation server 2012 update 2 and now we are getting a error when ever we try to add a new build agent. Error: TF900559: Build agent MyBuildAgent cannot serve build controller MyBuildControler. The build controller and…
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Team City Build Agent per target environment?

I am new to the whole CI process and have been tasked with researching a solution. So this may sound like a dumb question to some... So, I have been looking at Team City (Pro version) and was wondering if it was necessary to set up separate build…
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Is it possible to have a TFS build activity run on a specific agent?

We are using TFS 2010 and we've got a requirement to run a separate EXE to execute our old VB6 build script. We've got 3 build agents spread across 2 machines but only one machine has the VB6 development environment on it (as well as the old build…
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TFS2010 and lazy build agents

We have a TFS2010 setup with a single controller and 2 agents running on the same build machine. Yesterday the build server stopped running 2 concurrent builds and just let one agent do the work. I've tried to restart the controller and agents but…
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Intermittent "You don't have access to this" error with selenium tests running on azure build agent with Azure AD

I have a solution with some automation tests. Each test calls a Logon() method, which logs a test user in via azure AD, and then each test visits a different page and checks it works. The Logon method does the following: Go to the URL of the…
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Is there a difference or way to pick between Hosted Agents machine names 'fv-az532-*' and 'WIN-*'?

In my build pipeline I'm noticing that Azure DevOps assigns one of two types of Hosted Agents for the 'windows-latest' image Agent machine name: 'fv-az532-916' Agent machine name: 'WIN-FU0AG5PCJKT' When assigned the former type of agent, I get…
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Azure Devops 2022RC [on-prem] Build Issues with .NET 7

If this is not the correct place for this question, could you please point me elsewhere? (MS forums are not typically helpful, kind-of suck) I am working with trying an Azure Devops 2022 RC [on-prem] to see what problems may occur when we…
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Agents disabled after installing an update

We have an on-premises Azure DevOps, currently version 2019 Update 1. Last night I upgraded to 2019 Update 1.2, and initially everything appeared to be fine. However I noticed that builds weren't starting because I could see that the agents were…
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Azure Devops 2019 Batch Changes Does Not Queue Build

We have an on-premises, TFVC setup with Azure Devops 2019. We use the "Classic Editor" to create our pipelines since YAML does not support the TFVC repository: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/enable-yaml-for-tfvc/234618 In the…
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Use `Microsoft.NETCore.UniversalWindowsPlatform` from NuGet on build agent

I build a UWP app on Azure DevOps hosted build agent (Windows-2022, version 20220131.1). Of course, I use Microsoft.NETCore.UniversalWindowsPlatform NuGet package. As long as My app has F# code I have to hack a GateKeeper.xml and enable F# in it. So…
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Why do I need to use Build Agents in a CICD pipeline?

This seems to be such a basic questions that I've failed to find a good answer anywhere. Why can't I use my CICD-system to do all the tasks needed by itself? Do I really have to set up build agents? What would the main common disadvantages/risks be…
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g++ cannot link libatomic library on Microsoft user-agent

I have a very simple dummy program call main.c as below: #include #include #define TEST __atomic_compare_exchange void test() { __int128 unsigned a = 1, b = 2, c = 3; __atomic_compare_exchange_16(&a, &b, c, 1, 1,…
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Using TFS 2018 to build a solution with VS 2019

Is it possible to use a TFS 2018 Server (Version 16.131.27701.1) to build a C# program with Visual Studio 2019? If so, how? I have a build agent (with Azure Pipelines Agent v2.184.0) that has Visual Studio 2019 installed. TFS says it has the…
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Selenium test cases get stuck in build agents. How to resolve?

We are running 200 - 300 UI test cases from an Azure pipeline. All the test cases are running on self hosted Windows agents, where all the dependencies are installed. Chrome browser, vstest, etc. Issue is when we use parallelism multi agent from…
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SQLPackage Error when trying to release my pipeline

I have installed an Agent pool in my Azure VM. I am trying to deploy a dacpac file using the agen pool but I get the error No agent found in pool which satisfies the specified demands: sqlpackage, Agent.Version -gtVersion 1.103.0 I have installed…
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