Creating a headless Windows Server 2016 VM for CI/CD using VSTS

Setting up Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 Recently wanted to setup a Windows Server Core VM/image for portability. It's mainly used to build ASP.NET MVC web apps on the full .NET Framework which would then need to be deploy to Azure. Just documenting the steps I took along the way. # Download and install VS Build Tools Invoke-WebRequest https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/vs_buildtools.exe -OutFile vs_buildtools.exe ; Start-Process -FilePath 'vs_BuildTools.exe' -ArgumentList ` '--quiet', '--norestart', ...