Getting ready
To configure a build agent, you should be a member of the build administrators group and an administrator on the target machine. If the target machine is Windows 10 or beyond (x64), all the prerequisites will already be in place. If the target machine is Windows 7 to Windows 8.1, or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit), you will need to ensure that PowerShell version 3 or newer is available on the target system. Even though not technically required by the agent, many build scenarios require that Visual Studio be installed to get all the tools. It is recommended that you use Visual Studio 2015 or later.
Microsoft has open sourced its build system on GitHub under the Microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent project ...
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