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Tasks/ANTV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "Ant",
     "friendlyName": "Ant",
     "description": "Build with Apache Ant",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613718",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613718)",
     "category": "Build",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AndroidSigningV2/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AndroidSigning",
     "friendlyName": "Android Signing",
     "description": "Sign and align Android APK files",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613717",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613717)",
     "category": "Build",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AndroidSigningV3/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AndroidSigning",
     "friendlyName": "Android Signing",
     "description": "Sign and align Android APK files",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613717",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613717)",
     "category": "Build",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AppCenterDistributeV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AppCenterDistribute",
     "friendlyName": "App Center Distribute",
     "description": "Distribute app builds to testers and users via App Center",
+    "helpUrl": "https://aka.ms/appcentersupport/",
     "helpMarkDown": "For help with this task, visit the Visual Studio App Center [support site](https://aka.ms/appcentersupport/).",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AppCenterTestV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AppCenterTest",
     "friendlyName": "App Center Test",
     "description": "Test app packages with Visual Studio App Center.",
+    "helpUrl": "https://aka.ms/appcentersupport",
     "helpMarkDown": "For help with this task, visit the Visual Studio App Center [support site](https://aka.ms/appcentersupport).",
     "category": "Test",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/ArchiveFilesV2/task.json

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     "friendlyName": "Archive Files",
     "description": "Archive files using compression formats such as .7z, .rar, .tar.gz, and .zip.",
     "author": "Microsoft Corporation",
+    "helpUrl": "http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=809083",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=809083)",
     "category": "Utility",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AzureAppServiceManageV0/task.json

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     "friendlyName": "Azure App Service Manage",
     "description": "Start, Stop, Restart, Slot swap, Install site extensions or Enable Continuous Monitoring for an Azure App Service",
     "author": "Microsoft Corporation",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=831573",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=831573)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AzureCLIV1/task.json

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     "friendlyName": "Azure CLI",
     "description": "Run Azure CLI commands against an Azure subscription in a Shell script when runnning on Linux agent or Batch script when running on Windows agent.",
     "author": "Microsoft Corporation",
+    "helpUrl": "http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=827160",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=827160)",
     "releaseNotes": "What's new in Version 1.0:\n- Supports the new Azure CLI 2.0 which is Python based\n- Works with cross-platform agents (Linux, macOS, or Windows)\n- For working with Azure CLI 1.0 (node.js-based), switch to task version 0.0\n- Limitations:\n - No support for Azure Classic subscriptions. Azure CLI 2.0 supports only Azure Resource Manager (ARM) subscriptions.",
     "category": "Deploy",

Tasks/AzureCloudPowerShellDeploymentV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AzureCloudPowerShellDeployment",
     "friendlyName": "Azure Cloud Service Deployment",
     "description": "Deploy an Azure Cloud Service",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613748",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613748)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AzureFileCopyV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AzureFileCopy",
     "friendlyName": "Azure File Copy",
     "description": "Copy files to Azure blob or VM(s)",
+    "helpUrl": "https://aka.ms/azurefilecopyreadme",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://aka.ms/azurefilecopyreadme)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AzureFileCopyV2/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AzureFileCopy",
     "friendlyName": "Azure File Copy",
     "description": "Copy files to Azure blob or VM(s)",
+    "helpUrl": "https://aka.ms/azurefilecopyreadme",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://aka.ms/azurefilecopyreadme)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AzureFileCopyV3/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AzureFileCopy",
     "friendlyName": "Azure File Copy",
     "description": "Copy files to Azure blob or VM(s)",
+    "helpUrl": "https://aka.ms/azurefilecopyreadme",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://aka.ms/azurefilecopyreadme)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AzureFunctionAppContainerV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AzureFunctionAppContainer",
     "friendlyName": "Azure Function for Container",
     "description": "Update Function Apps with Docker Containers",
+    "helpUrl": "https://aka.ms/azurefunctiononcontainerdeployreadme",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More information](https://aka.ms/azurefunctiononcontainerdeployreadme)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AzureFunctionAppV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AzureFunctionApp",
     "friendlyName": "Azure Function",
     "description": "Update Azure Function on Windows, Function on Linux with built-in images, ASP.NET, .NET Core, PHP, Python or Node.js based Web applications",
+    "helpUrl": "https://aka.ms/azurefunctiondeployreadme",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More information](https://aka.ms/azurefunctiondeployreadme)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AzureFunctionV1/task.json

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     "friendlyName": "Invoke Azure Function",
     "description": "Invoke an Azure Function as a part of your pipeline.",
     "author": "Microsoft Corporation",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=870235",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=870235)",
     "category": "Utility",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AzureIoTEdgeV2/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   "name": "AzureIoTEdge",
   "friendlyName": "Azure IoT Edge",
   "description": "Azure IoT Edge pipelines tasks for continuous integration(build and push docker image) and continuous deployment(create Edge deployment on Azure)",
+  "helpUrl": "https://aka.ms/azure-iot-edge-ci-cd-docs",
   "helpMarkDown": "Visit the [documentation](https://aka.ms/azure-iot-edge-ci-cd-docs) for help",
   "category": "Build",
   "visibility": [

Tasks/AzureKeyVaultV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AzureKeyVault",
     "friendlyName": "Azure Key Vault",
     "description": "Download Azure Key Vault Secrets",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=848891",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=848891)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "releaseNotes": "Works with cross-platform agents (Linux, macOS, or Windows)",

Tasks/AzureMonitorAlertsV0/task.json

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     "friendlyName": "Azure Monitor Alerts",
     "description": "Configure alerts on available metrics for an Azure resource",
     "author": "Microsoft Corporation",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=859947",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=859947)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AzureMonitorV0/task.json

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     "friendlyName": "Query Classic Azure Monitor Alerts",
     "description": "Observe the configured classic Azure monitor rules for active alerts.",
     "author": "Microsoft Corporation",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=870240",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=870240)",
     "category": "Utility",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AzureMonitorV1/task.json

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     "friendlyName": "Query Azure Monitor Alerts",
     "description": "Observe the configured Azure monitor rules for active alerts.",
     "author": "Microsoft Corporation",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=870240",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=870240)",
     "category": "Utility",
     "preview": true,

Tasks/AzureMysqlDeploymentV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AzureMysqlDeployment",
     "friendlyName": "Azure Database for MySQL Deployment",
     "description": "Run your scripts and make changes to your Azure Database for MySQL.",
+    "helpUrl": "https://aka.ms/mysqlazuredeployreadme",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://aka.ms/mysqlazuredeployreadme)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AzureNLBManagementV1/task.json

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     "friendlyName": "Azure Network Load Balancer",
     "description": "Connect/Disconnect an Azure virtual machine's network interface to a Load Balancer's backend address pool",
     "author": "Microsoft Corporation",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=837723",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=837723)",
     "category": "Utility",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AzurePolicyV0/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
   "name": "AzurePolicyCheckGate",
   "friendlyName": "Security and compliance assessment",
   "description": "Security and compliance assessment with Azure policies on resources that belong to the resource group and Azure subscription",
+  "helpUrl": "",
+  "helpMarkDown": "",
   "category": "Deploy",
   "visibility": [
     "Release"

Tasks/AzurePowerShellV2/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AzurePowerShell",
     "friendlyName": "Azure PowerShell",
     "description": "Run a PowerShell script within an Azure environment",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613749",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613749)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AzurePowerShellV3/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AzurePowerShell",
     "friendlyName": "Azure PowerShell",
     "description": "Run a PowerShell script within an Azure environment",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613749",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613749)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AzureResourceGroupDeploymentV2/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AzureResourceGroupDeployment",
     "friendlyName": "Azure Resource Group Deployment",
     "description": "Deploy an Azure resource manager (ARM) template to a resource group. You can also start, stop, delete, deallocate all Virtual Machines (VM) in a resource group",
+    "helpUrl": "https://aka.ms/argtaskreadme",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://aka.ms/argtaskreadme)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "releaseNotes": "-Works with cross-platform agents (Linux, macOS, or Windows)\n- Supports Template JSONs located at any publicly accessible http/https URLs.\n- Enhanced UX for Override parameters which can now be viewed/edited in a grid.\n- NAT rule mapping for VMs which are backed by an Load balancer.\n- \"Resource group\" field is now renamed as \"VM details for  WinRM\" and is included in the section \"Advanced deployment options for virtual machines\".\n- Limitations: \n - No support for Classic subscriptions. Only for ARM subscriptions are supported.\n - No support for PowerShell syntax as the task is now node.js based. Ensure the case sensitivity of the parameter names match, when you override the template parameters. Also, remove the PowerShell cmdlets like \"ConvertTo-SecureString\" when you migrate from version 1.0 to version 2.0.",

Tasks/AzureRmWebAppDeploymentV3/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AzureRmWebAppDeployment",
     "friendlyName": "Azure App Service Deploy",
     "description": "Update Azure App Services on Windows, Web App on Linux with built-in images or Docker containers, ASP.NET, .NET Core, PHP, Python or Node.js based Web applications, Function Apps, Mobile Apps, API applications, Web Jobs using Web Deploy / Kudu REST APIs",
+    "helpUrl": "https://aka.ms/azurermwebdeployreadme",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More information](https://aka.ms/azurermwebdeployreadme)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AzureRmWebAppDeploymentV4/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AzureRmWebAppDeployment",
     "friendlyName": "Azure App Service Deploy",
     "description": "Update Azure App Services on Windows, Web App on Linux with built-in images or Docker containers, ASP.NET, .NET Core, PHP, Python or Node.js based Web applications, Function Apps on Windows or Linux with Docker Containers, Mobile Apps, API applications, Web Jobs using Web Deploy / Kudu REST APIs",
+    "helpUrl": "https://aka.ms/azurermwebdeployreadme",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More information](https://aka.ms/azurermwebdeployreadme)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AzureVmssDeploymentV0/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AzureVmssDeployment",
     "friendlyName": "Azure VM scale set Deployment",
     "description": "Deploy Virtual Machine scale set image",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=852117",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=852117)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "releaseNotes": "- Updates Azure Virtual Machine scale set with a custom machine image.",

Tasks/AzureWebAppContainerV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AzureWebAppContainer",
     "friendlyName": "Azure Web App for Container",
     "description": "Update Azure App Services on Docker containers",
+    "helpUrl": "https://aka.ms/azurewebapponcontainerdeployreadme",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More information](https://aka.ms/azurewebapponcontainerdeployreadme)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/AzureWebAppV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "AzureWebApp",
     "friendlyName": "Azure Web App",
     "description": "Update Azure App Services on Windows, Web App on Linux with built-in images, ASP.NET, .NET Core, PHP, Python or Node.js based Web applications, Mobile Apps, API applications",
+    "helpUrl": "https://aka.ms/azurewebappdeployreadme",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More information](https://aka.ms/azurewebappdeployreadme)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/BashV3/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "Bash",
     "friendlyName": "Bash",
     "description": "Run a Bash script on macOS, Linux, or Windows",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613738",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613738)",
     "category": "Utility",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/BatchScriptV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "BatchScript",
     "friendlyName": "Batch Script",
     "description": "Run a windows cmd or bat script and optionally allow it to change the environment",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613733",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613733)",
     "category": "Utility",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/CMakeV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "CMake",
     "friendlyName": "CMake",
     "description": "Build with the CMake cross-platform build system",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613719",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613719)",
     "category": "Build",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/CUrlUploaderV2/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "cURLUploader",
     "friendlyName": "cURL Upload Files",
     "description": "Use cURL to upload files.",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=627418",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=627418)",
     "category": "Utility",
     "author": "Microsoft Corporation",

Tasks/ChefKnifeV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "ChefKnife",
     "friendlyName": "Chef Knife",
     "description": "Run Scripts with knife commands on your chef workstation",
+    "helpUrl": "https://aka.ms/chef-knife-readme",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://aka.ms/chef-knife-readme)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/ChefV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "Chef",
     "friendlyName": "Chef",
     "description": "Deploy to Chef environments by editing environment attributes",
+    "helpUrl": "https://aka.ms/chef-readme",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://aka.ms/chef-readme)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/CmdLineV2/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "CmdLine",
     "friendlyName": "Command Line",
     "description": "Run a command line script using cmd.exe on Windows and bash on macOS and Linux.",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613735",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613735)",
     "category": "Utility",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/CocoaPodsV0/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "CocoaPods",
     "friendlyName": "CocoaPods",
     "description": "CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects. This task runs 'pod install'.",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613745",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=613745)",
     "category": "Package",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/CondaEnvironmentV0/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "CondaEnvironment",
     "friendlyName": "Conda Environment",
     "description": "Create and activate a Conda environment.",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=873466",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=873466)",
     "category": "Package",
     "runsOn": [

Tasks/CondaEnvironmentV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "CondaEnvironment",
     "friendlyName": "Conda Environment",
     "description": "Create and activate a Conda environment.",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=873466",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=873466)",
     "category": "Package",
     "runsOn": [

Tasks/CopyFilesOverSSHV0/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "CopyFilesOverSSH",
     "friendlyName": "Copy Files Over SSH",
     "description": "Copy files or build artifacts to a remote machine over SSH",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=821894",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=821894)",
     "category": "Deploy",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/CopyFilesV2/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "CopyFiles",
     "friendlyName": "Copy Files",
     "description": "Copy files from source folder to target folder using match patterns (The match patterns will only match file paths, not folder paths)",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=708389",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=708389)",
     "category": "Utility",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/DecryptFileV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
     "name": "DecryptFile",
     "friendlyName": "Decrypt File (OpenSSL)",
     "description": "A thin utility task for file decryption using OpenSSL.",
+    "helpUrl": "",
+    "helpMarkDown": "",
     "category": "Utility",
     "visibility": [
         "Build",

Tasks/DelayV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "Delay",
     "friendlyName": "Delay",
     "description": "Delay further execution of the workflow by a fixed time.",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=870239",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=870239)",
     "category": "Utility",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/DeleteFilesV1/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "DeleteFiles",
     "friendlyName": "Delete Files",
     "description": "Delete files or folders. (The minimatch patterns will only match file paths, not folder paths)",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=722333",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More Information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=722333)",
     "category": "Utility",
     "visibility": [

Tasks/DeployVisualStudioTestAgentV2/task.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     "name": "DeployVisualStudioTestAgent",
     "friendlyName": "Visual Studio Test Agent Deployment",
     "description": "Deprecated: This task and it’s companion task (Run Functional Tests) are deprecated. Use the 'Visual Studio Test' task instead. The VSTest task can run unit as well as functional tests. Run tests on one or more agents using the multi-agent job setting. Use the 'Visual Studio Test Platform' task to run tests without needing Visual Studio on the agent. VSTest task also brings new capabilities such as automatically rerunning failed tests.",
+    "helpUrl": "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=838890",
     "helpMarkDown": "[More information](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=838890)",
     "category": "Test",
     "visibility": [