errorActionPreference not working

[winstonhenke]

Required Information

Type: Bug

Enter Task Name: AzurePowerShell@4
https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks/tree/master/Tasks/AzurePowerShellV4

Environment

• Server - Azure Pipelines
• Agent - Hosted
  • Azure Pipelines - Image: VS2017

Issue Description

errorActionPreference not working

I'm passing errorActionPreference: stop into my task but
write-host "error preference is: $errorActionPreference"
is reporting
error preference is: Continue
Version : 4.159.3

Full task definition...

- task: AzurePowerShell@4
  displayName: 'Run Script'
  inputs:
    azureSubscription: '$(azureSubscription)'
    ScriptPath: '$(Pipeline.Workspace)/$(artifactName)/myScript.ps1'
    ScriptArguments: '
                      -location $(location)
                      -resourceGroupName $(resourceGroupName)'
    errorActionPreference: stop
    azurePowerShellVersion: 'OtherVersion'
    preferredAzurePowerShellVersion: '2.6.0'

And then the very first line in my script I have
write-host "error preference is: $errorActionPreference"
that prints error preference is: Continue

[20shivangi]

@winstonhenke
This issue has been fixed in new AzurePowerShell version i.e. 5.162.0 . It will take at least 3-4 weeks to get deployed.

[winstonhenke]

Thanks!

[eaarora-ms]

The issue should have been fixed by now. It might take some time to mitigate though. Please comment if you're still facing it.