TFS Build agent for Windows Server 2016 and TFS 2017

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I am using TFS 2017 On Windows Server 2016 and I am trying to create new build definition but it is not able read the agent capabilities like msbuild visual studio No agent found in pool Default which satisfies the specified demands: msbuild visualstudio vstest Agent.Version -gtVersion 1.98.1

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visual-studio-2017windows-server-2016
Have you checked your build agent machine? Do you have these capabilities installed on your build agent machine? - Cece Dong - MSFT

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Believe 2.112.0 was the agent version that shipped with 2017. I think the 1.x was from 2015, witch may not be compatible.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vsts-agent is probably a better place to find support for this though

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You need to install Visual Studio on your build agent machine, and restart the build agent. Then it should work.

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Just try to deploy a new agent which downloaded from your TFS 2017 directly.

Open a browser and navigate to the Agent pools tab for your TFS server to download the agent package (See Deploy an agent on Windows):

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

After that, you can check the issue with the new agent:

  • If the capabilities are still not there, then you can try to restart the agent service.
  • If that still not work, then you can add the capabilities manually.