I keep getting a "Could not find the module Az.Accounts with given version." error with a very simple DevOps release pipelines

Question

I'm testing a very simple release pipeline that simply copies part of a project's repo in Azure DevOps to an Azure Windows VM. I've gone through the Deployment Group setup several times, registering and installing the agent, along with installing the PowerShell Az module and removing AzureRM. I keep getting this error:

##[error]Could not find the module Az.Accounts with given version. If the module was recently installed, retry after restarting the Azure Pipelines task agent.

I've also tried installing PowerShell 7.3.2 and installing the Az module there.

Any ideas or pointers to docs? Searching for the above error brings me to some cryptic stackoverflow pages that don't really help.

Here's the YAML for the actual task that does the copy- thanks in advance for any pointers or suggestions (as I am clearly new to this!).

steps:
- task: AzureFileCopy@5
  displayName: 'AzureVMs File Copy'
  inputs:
    SourcePath: '$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/_XXX_XXX_XXX/Code'
    azureSubscription: 'XXX'
    Destination: AzureVMs
    storage: XXX
    resourceGroup: 'XXX'
    MachineNames: XXX
    vmsAdminUserName: XXX
    vmsAdminPassword: 'XXX'
    TargetPath: 'C:\XXX\XXX\Staging'

Answer 1

Hi @Steve Mandras , 

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A! 

Azure DevOps is currently not supported in the Microsoft Q&A, you can ask in the dedicated Azure DevOps forum over here:

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/report?space=21&entry=problem 

Thanks for your understanding!

Sincerely,

Anna

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