将 TFS2017 任务更新到最新版本

Question

I am working on a build to run a powershell script on a remote machine, using the VSTS task :

I currently am using TFS2017 on premise, and this is version 1 of that task. There is a version 3 available on github here : https://github.com/Microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks/tree/master/Tasks/PowerShellOnTargetMachinesV3

I am having an issue with this task failing, and I have read elsewhere that this version has a fix for my issue, so I want to update it if possible. I tried a few ways to do this, but I cannot work out what I am supposed to be doing. You would think there would be an update button in TFS! Well, there is, but it requests that you provide a .VISX file. Which the repo in GIT does not have.

I've tried running the steps in this other post: How to update the built-in Microsoft task library in TFS 2017? But running the command "npm run package -- --version " doesn't generate the VISX.

I tried running :

npm run package --PowerShellOnTargetMachinesV3 --version 3.1.3

That responds with the output:

5.6.0

Which I am not sure what to do with!

I have seen another post that says I need to use the tfs-cli? I'm very confused.

Any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

Since you are working on TFS on-premise, the task version will not auto update. You need to manually install "PowerShell on Target Machines" task version 3.0

You just need to download the source code and package it as an extension, finally upload and install your extension. There are some steps updated:

• Get the package tool (tfx-cli)

  You can install or update the TFS Cross Platform Command Line Interface (tfx-cli) using npm, a component of Node.js, from your command line.

  npm i -g tfx-cli

• Package your extension in a .vsix file

  tfx extension create --manifest-globs vss-extension.json

More details please refer this official tutorial: Package, publish extensions .