Azure Artifacts Credential Provider missing on Ubuntu Runner

[vrad-joshuamckelvey]

Description

Started seeing builds utilizing Azure DevOps Hosted Agents and private PowerShell repository begin to fail on 6/17.

Error is due to Azure Artifacts Credential Provider no longer being installed on the Hosted Agents.

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions - Standard Runners
• GitHub Actions - Larger Runners

Runner images affected

• Ubuntu 22.04
• Ubuntu 22.04 Arm64
• Ubuntu 24.04
• Ubuntu 24.04 Arm64
• Ubuntu 26.04
• Ubuntu 26.04 Arm64
• Ubuntu Slim
• macOS 14
• macOS 14 Arm64
• macOS 15
• macOS 15 Arm64
• macOS 26
• macOS 26 Arm64
• Windows Server 2022
• Windows Server 2025
• Windows Server 2025 with Visual Studio 2026
• Windows Desktop 11
• Windows Desktop 11 with Visual Studio 2026

Image version and build link

20260611.554

Is it regression?

20260527.539

Expected behavior

Expected Azure Artifacts Credential to be installed on Runners as it was previously, but is no longer.

Actual behavior

Install-PSResource: /home/vsts/work/_temp/77b311f0-43db-4d74-84eb-1fb94ce31d21.ps1:3
Line |
   3 |  Install-PSResource -Name DevOpsUtils -Repository 'vRadToolFeed' -Scop …
     |  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     | Value cannot be null. (Parameter 'Path to the Azure Artifacts Credential
     | Provider is null or empty. See
     | https://github.com/NuGet/Home/wiki/NuGet-cross-plat-authentication-plugin#plugin-installation-and-discovery to set up the Credential Provider.')

Repro steps

1. Run build that installs PowerShell packages from a Azure DevOps Artifacts repository.