Unable to upgrade Az version to latest on microsoft hosted Windows agents

[sureddyk]

Issue: Unable to update Azure CLI to 2.37.0.

Scenario: Using Azure pipelines, tried to upgrade the Az cli version to the latest with the below script.

az upgrade --all --yes -y

The script runs for well over 40 mins and is stuck in installing msi stage.

Kindly could you help on upgrading the script on the Microsoft hosted machines.

[yonzhan]

@jiasli for awareness

[jiasli]

This is similar to #18363 but not exactly the same since you are using Windows agent.

az upgrade currently doesn't work in Azure DevOps agent.

Solutions

You may either

1. Wait for Azure DevOps agent to upgrade to the latest Azure CLI by itself (no action from your side). The rollout progress can be found at https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments
2. Try to install Azure CLI from the official source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-windows?tabs=azure-cli. Installing Azure CLI requires admin permission. I haven't personally tried this approach yet.

[kornbo2-dev]

hi.. I know there was no solution a few months back, but is there another workaround for this aside from waiting for the host to update itself? getting security advise from azure to upgrade to the latest cli version which is 2.53.1 hotfix

update:
MS has deployed the latest cli after 2 days of releasing it... so looks like due to the criticality of the release, they decide if they have to update their host immediately