title: Error Deploying Release Pipeline Windows 2016 deprecated - Azure Devops
body: <p>I got this error message:</p>
  <p>This is a scheduled windows-2016 brownout. The windows-2016 environment is deprecated and will be removed on April 1st, 2022. For more details, see <a href="https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/5238" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/5238</a></p>
  <p>Took me forever to figure out it was and I hope this helps anyone facing same issue:</p>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/DNj0V.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/DNj0V.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
  <p>The release pipeline agent needs changing from 2016 to 2019 or whatever you build on as long as its &gt; 2016</p>