How to add custom build steps to TFS 2015

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I found these custom build tasks for TFS at https://github.com/Microsoft/vso-agent-tasks . How do I make these tasks available to my TFS build server ? The documentation is not very clear.

They are the out-of-the-box tasks and should not need uploading. Your TFS/VSTS instance already includes them. — MrHinsh - Martin Hinshelwood
– MrHinsh - Martin Hinshelwood, Commented Mar 9, 2016 at 2:54
I don't have many of those tasks, i.e. CopyFile. Am I running an old version of Tfs build 2015? How can I tell? — jlo-gmail
– jlo-gmail, Commented Mar 9, 2016 at 5:09
You should update your TFS server at least to TFS 2015 Update 1, and I would recommend that you update to the latest supported version of TFS 2015 Update 2. — MrHinsh - Martin Hinshelwood
– MrHinsh - Martin Hinshelwood, Commented Mar 9, 2016 at 13:40

Daniel Mann · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-08 14:12:44Z

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Those aren't custom build tasks... those are the official build tasks that are included in VSTS/TFS.

The documentation on how to upload them is actually extremely clear and well-documented:

Install the TFX CLI
Use the command tfx build tasks upload to upload the task.

If you're using on-premise TFS, some of the unpublished tasks may not work as they may depend on a later version of the build agent than what ships with TFS currently.

answered Mar 8, 2016 at 14:12

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