Unable to download the list of available providers Powershell

When you try to install a program you might encounter following error

WARNING: MSG:UnableToDownload «https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=627338&clcid=0x409» «»

WARNING: Unable to download the list of available providers. Check your internet connection.

WARNING: Unable to download from URI 'https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=627338&clcid=0x409' to ''.

Install-PackageProvider : No match was found for the specified search criteria for the provider 'NuGet'. The package provider requires 'PackageManagement' and 'Provider' tags. Please check if the specified package has the tags.

At line:1 char:1

+ Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -MinimumVersion 2.8.5.2  01 -Force

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (Microsoft.Power...PackageProvider:InstallPackageProvider) [Install-PackageProvider], Exception

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NoMatchFoundForProvider,Microsoft.PowerShell.PackageManagement.Cmdlets.InstallPackageProvider

Trying the following steps will resolve this issue.

• Open Powershell (As Admin)
•  execute following command in powershell prompt

          [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12

• Try running the again!

       Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -MinimumVersion 2.8.5.201 -Force


Cheers,
Samitha

msbuild fails to run

When you are trying to publish a web through command line  you might encounter following error

MSBUILD : error MSB1009: Project file does not exist

Fix this by adding msbuild.exe to environement variables


The path is located in the Visual Studio Installed directory.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin

Samitha