Very helpful! Thanks :)

In the v4 execution engine, your best bet is to create a file with that name, and then read the file contents into a variable. In the v5 engine, you will be able to export variables via powershell a little easier (example: PowerShell & Scripting from Otter docs.

Thanks Alana, i'll check that out.

Yes, in the new/v5 execution engine, we wrote a variable function called $EnvironmentVariable(name) that returns the machine environment variable. The current/v4 execution engine does not provide agent/server context in a variable function, so there's no way to write a variable function that executes on a remote machine.

Is there any other error information e.g. stack trace or error details? You can look in the Windows Event Log for more info.

I have found the solution ... Set the Property "UseIntegratedWebServer" to False in the Advanced Config when use IIS. The solves the problem

Your best bet will be using either a Delete files action, or simply just the Transfer/Synchronize files action, along with some negative/exclusionary masks. For example... * !images !cache !web.config

Sorry about that - we accidentally broke SDK compatibility and will have to release a newer version of BuildMaster (v4.7.5) that will have a shim for that method. As a workaround for v4.7.4, you can call: StoredProcs.Applications_GetApplicationsVisibleToUser("Admin", "", 1) to get apps visible to the Admin user of the built-in directory provider (substitute a domain user name and use directory ID 2 if you're using LDAP). This of course assumes the default setup where "Admin" has privileges to view all applications.

<strike>Unfortunately no. I'll add this as an item to improve for the next release though.</strike> As of BuildMaster v4.7 this is now supported using the /ServiceName argument. For the complete list of arguments, see: http://inedo.com/support/documentation/buildmaster/installation/silent-agent-installation

We will be adding a few fixes to help with retrying after indexing issues in the next maintenance release, as well as some more logging to figure out what is going wrong in these cases. Long term, we will also be redoing a lot of the indexing logic to eliminate these types of problems (but that probably will happen in a minor/major release.)

To back-up ProGet, you just need to Back-up the Database and the Packages directory (the path is listed on each feed, and is in the All Settings under Admin).

The most likely reason is that you have recently installed something that requires a restart (usually a Windows update). That installation won't actually be finished until the system has been restarted. It is also possible that something was installed very recently and the Windows Installer service has not terminated yet. It should release locks and automatically terminate after a few minutes.

I was refering to Strong-Naming. I was using a passworded file .pfx and therefore causing issues, I moved to a .snk file (not password protected) and it's working correctly now.