Install Build for TFS 2018

Question

I have installed Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 1 and I want to install and configure automated generated builds for the team.

In Team Foundation Management Console, there is an entry "Build and release" but there a only informations and links that are not clickable.

If I click a link, another windows opens, but the ok button stays disabled, so I do not get additional information:

In earlier releases of TFS I could install and configure the tfs build system on this place. How I can do now in tfs2018. Do I have to install additional software and where I can download. For one reason, we are using Visual Studio 2015 (we want upgrade later to 2017).

Answer 1

Go to the TFS Web interface, in the settings panel find the Agent Pool and hit the "Download Agent" link.

TFS 2018 is the first TFS version that no longer supports the XAML agent infrastructure.

Answer 2

You need to deploy an agent first as jessehouwing mentiond above, you can also refer to this link for detials : Deploy an agent on Windows

Then create a build definition and Enable continuous integration (CI) to automate builds. Refer to this link for details： https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/build-release/actions/ci-cd-part-1

Below articles may also helps for you:

• Build and Release in VSTS and TFS
• Build and release tasks
• Build and release quickstarts

Answer 3

Thanks for the answers. No I have found the page, where I can download the build-agent.

For TFS2018 you can download the build agent by using the following url:

https://{your_server}/DefaultCollection/_admin/_AgentPool

Like provided from Microsoft you can find it for other TFS versions:

VSTS: https://{your_account}.visualstudio.com/_admin/_AgentPool
TFS 2017: https://{your_server}/tfs/DefaultCollection/_admin/_AgentPool
TFS 2015: http://{your_server}:8080/tfs/_admin/_AgentPool