How to disable auto-updates for the Azure Pipelines agent

Question

I want to disable automatic updates for Azure Pipelines Agent. Earlier this was a setting in the Agent pools -> Azure Pipelines -> Settings, but I don't see it now.

It used to be like this:

Now it looks like this. There is no settings tab

How to disable Auto-Updates?

Answer 1

Based on the screenshots that you shared, please note that the agent pool with the name of Azure Pipelines is the Microsoft-hosted agent pool. With Microsoft-hosted agents, maintenance and upgrades are taken care of by Microsoft.

For the other agent pools like Default, you can use it to register self-hosted agents that you've set up.

Microsoft-hosted agents are always kept up-to-date. If the newer version of the agent is only different in minor version, self-hosted agents can usually be updated automatically (configure this setting in Agent pools, select your agent, Settings - the default is enabled) by Azure Pipelines.

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