tag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:/discussions/questions/41045-looking-to-upgrade-our-azure-build-vms-to-2019-from-2016AppVeyor: Discussion 2019-10-26T21:01:30Ztag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/475602242019-08-26T18:16:03Z2019-08-26T18:16:52ZLooking to upgrade our Azure build VMs to 2019 (from 2016)<div><p>Hi Damien,</p>
<p>OS is built in VHD image used to create a VM. It was selected by you when you created this image a while ago. Windows Server 2019 maybe even was not released back then. You cannot change image OS with simple changing VM size unfortunately :)</p>
<p>Good news is that we do some work to automate image creation and setup. Please look at this manual: <a href="https://www.appveyor.com/docs/server/#azure-vms">https://www.appveyor.com/docs/server/#azure-vms</a>. This script will do all heavy lifting to setup own cloud including the image VHD. We recommend using this approach instead of manual steps we provided before. If you run it, it will not affect you current Azure cloud/image, but setup separate ones and you will be able to use them in parallel.</p>
<p>Let us know if this works for you.</p>
<p>Ilya.</p></div>Ilya Finkelshteyntag:help.appveyor.com,2012-11-13:Comment/475602242019-08-26T18:26:39Z2019-08-26T18:26:39ZLooking to upgrade our Azure build VMs to 2019 (from 2016)<div><p>I realized that I did not pointed out, that image creation automation we provide use Windows Server 2019 Datacenter, as you can see <a href="https://github.com/appveyor/build-images/blob/master/minimal-windows-server.json#L139">here</a>.</p></div>Ilya Finkelshteyn