Setup TFS 2015 Windows Build Agent
With TFS 2015 (RC is available as of now) new build system is introduced. Below is a guide to setup an agent for the new build system. To download the build agent setup files go to admin mode of the TFS web portal and download the agent.
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Extract the contents of the downloaded zip file, to a folder in the machine which is going to be setup as the build agent.
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Open a PowerShell window as Administrator and change directory to the extracted folder. Run the ConfigureAgent.ps1. Provide below details for the agent.
* Agent Name
* TFS URL - This should be TFS Server URL, not project collection URL.
* Specify an agent pool to join.
* Specify a working folder path. Which will be used to download source code and run the builds
* Set the build agent to run as a widows service. Windows service is the better option for production usage.
* Specify credentials for agent service.
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Once this is done the agent service can be seen up and running as a Windows service.
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The new build agent is available for the build agent pool.
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The new Windows build agent and XAML build agent can coexist on the same machine, which would useful to support already available XAML build definitions.
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