TFSBuild 2013 unable to change msbuild version

Question

I have a TFSBuild 2013 server that we are trying to now build UWP projects with, but we cannot seem to make it use the correct MSBuild version.

Symptoms:

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Answer 1

I finally gave up trying to make this behave with configuration, but managed to get this working on the build machine by hacking the registry.

I changed the following registry keys:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\MSBuild\12.0\MSBuildOverrideTasksPath
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\MSBuild\ToolsVersions\12.0\MSBuildToolsPath

In both cases, I changed the value

from:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\bin\

to:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\

Disclaimer: I don't know what other affects this will have, but its got our builds using the correct MSBuild version, and is limited in scope to the build server.