Users/jtpetty/cherry pick 2560 to m163 (microsoft#2689)

* Cherry picking microsoft#2560 to m163

* bump version

Cherry pick bug fix from 2.161.1 to 2.163.1

Disable dotnet-install tests

Set up 162 Release (microsoft#2652)

Cherry pick fix to 2.161.1 (microsoft#2634)

Allow signing to pass (microsoft#2621)

Fix publishing (microsoft#2624)

Avoiding a null ref thrown by MakeRelative. (microsoft#2605)

* Avoiding a null ref thrown by MakeRelative.
Related to ICM 158228919

* bumping version and updating release notes

Release 160 (microsoft#2553)

Publish 159.2