Azure Pipelines "vs2017-win2016" vm image retires next month

[moerketh]

Looking at the pipelines in Azure DevOps I found that he current image in use in the Azure Pipelines "vs2017-win2016" is currently deprecated and retirement is planned for march 15 2022. The pipelines should be updated before that date. Brownouts are scheduled in the mean time. See also:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/hosted-pipelines-image-deprecation/
actions/runner-images#4312

The recommended change is to use "windows-latest" instead.

Here is a list where this image is currently in use:
azure-pipelines-pr.yml lines 84, 200, 224
azure-pipelines-merge.yml lines 44, 204, 228
azure-pipelines-create-release.yml lines 68
doc/samples.md line 266

I can send a PR for the replaces if needed.

[bharatbuddhadevphyrem]

so how to fix this ? what steps I need to follow to update vs2017-win2016 to latest one

[moerketh]

@bharatbuddhadevphyrem hi! Did you look at the attached PR for the suggested fix?
Basically replace 'vs2017-win2016' with 'windows-latest'. Looks like the pipelines are happy with that change.