botskills refresh can't be run in PowerShell task of Azure DevOps release pipelines

[ericchansen]

Versions

Using Azure pipelines.

Agent pool: Azure Pipelines Agent Specification: vs2017-win2016

Describe the bug

Can't successfully use botskills refresh --cs ./path/to/cognitivemodels.json --dispatchFolder ./path/to/Deployment/Resources/dispatch in Azure pipelines.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a template Bot Framework Virtual Assistant
2. In the release pipeline, install the pre-requisite npm tools and attempt to use botskills refresh --cs ./path/to/cognitivemodels.json --dispatchFolder ./path/to/Deployment/Resources/dispatch.

Regardless of how you install the required npm packages, it will not work. You will get an error similar to this.

2020-10-16T20:44:18.2228935Z }
2020-10-16T20:44:18.2397954Z Running Luis Generate for Masteren-us...
2020-10-16T20:44:18.2400791Z Executing luisgen for the Masteren-us file
2020-10-16T20:44:21.3236825Z There was an error while refreshing any Skill from the Assistant:
2020-10-16T20:44:21.3238398Z Error: There was an error in the bf luis:generate:cs command:
2020-10-16T20:44:21.3240619Z Command: bf luis:generate:cs --in "D:\a\r1\a\_source\Coned.Core\Coned.Core\Coned.Core\Deployment\Resources\dispatch\qa\en-us\Masteren-us.json" --out "D:\a\r1\a\Services\DispatchLuis.cs" --className DispatchLuis --force
2020-10-16T20:44:21.3242335Z Unknown error during execution. Please file an issue on https://github.com/microsoft/botframework-cli/issues
2020-10-16T20:44:21.3243144Z undefined
2020-10-16T20:44:21.3243507Z 

Expected behavior

Same results as local, where everything works just fine.

Additional context

• Duplicated issue here https://github.com/microsoft/botbuilder-tools/issues/1475.

[bug]

[stevengum]

Closing issue as it is a duplicate of microsoft/botbuilder-tools#1475. @ericchansen we will track the bug report and any fixes in that issue.