One of my two TFS servers is missing VisualStudio tools in msbuild folder. Need help locating the package required to install them

Question

I have two servers, ServerA and ServerB. Both servers have these installed:

• Web Deploy 3.5" installed via Web Platform Installer
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1 Multi-Targeting Pack
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1 SDK
• TFS 2013

ServerA is missing files that ServerB has. This is a huge problem because my MSBuild build arguments "/p:DeployOnBuild=True" do not work on ServerA unless I copy these specific files over.

ServerA ServerB

When I manually copy these files over everything is fixed. But this isnt good practice and I need solid documentation on how to configure these servers. This post is what helped me find the issue: MSBuild DeployOnBuild=true not publishing

Answer 1

I always advise installing visual studio on the build servers. That should fix your problems.