The great thing about the .NET Core SDK is the fact that you don’t really need to perform an install, but rather simply copy the files to the build agent and re-set the PATH environment variable to point to the newly deployed SDK. [reflection.assembly] :: LoadWithPartialName ( "System.Net.Http" ) | Out - Null [reflection.assembly] :: LoadWithPartialName ( "System.Threading" ) | Out - Null [reflection.assembly] :: LoadWithPartialName ( "System.IO.Compression.FileSystem" ) | Out - Null $ SourcePath = "https://dotnetcli.blob.core.windows.net/dotnet/Sdk/rel-1.0.0/dotnet-dev-win-x64.latest.zip" ; $ DestinationPath = "C:\dotnet" $ TempPath = [ System .