Download TFS 2015 Build Agent without TFS 2015 install

Question

We currently use TFS 2013 with a suite of XAML builds, there are a few hundred projects here, each with an average of six build definitions each.

We're wanting to upgrade to TFS 2017 (2018 doesn't support XAML) but need to be able to support the XAML builds until they're all migrated.

According to MS, we can setup a TFS 2017 box, a build server with a 2017 build agent on it and a separate build server with a 2015 build agent on it which TFS can use to run the XAML builds.

My problem is... where to get the 2015 build agent installer from. Normally you ask TFS for the build agent installer, but we don't have a TFS 2015 installation.

Am I going to have to setup a TFS 2015 VM just so I can click one lousy link and download one installer. I've searched around but can't find any other place to get the damned thing from.

Anyone got a link to an MS page?

Answer 1

You could download the latest build agent from the link below: Download Latest Agent , which will download the "vsts-agent-win7-x64-2.xxx.x.zip" file for you. Currently I believe that both TFS 2015 and TFS 2017 are downloading the same latest agent as mentioned above.

If you need a specific version of the agent you could take a look at the git hub for the specific Releases of the VSTS agents