Nuget Restore via build server "unable to find version"

The reason why the build failed, was an old version of nuget.exe. I finally solved this problem by downloading the latest version and put this executable in the Program Files x86 folder. Then I created a new system variabele to point to this executable. After that I add a NuGetInstaller package in my TFS Build Definition to let me configure TFS using this new NuGet.exe. This link helped me to let TFS use this new NuGet version

I followed this: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/tfssetup/2017/04/18/tfs-2017-update-1-nuget-restore-task-always-fails-trying-to-find-packages-even-though-they-exist-on-the-feed/

I had tried 3.3 and got this error:

Restoring NuGet package Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages.3.2.3. WARNING: Unable to find version '3.5.0.2' of package 'Antlr'.

I downloaded the latest NuGet 4.3.0.4406 and set the Custom path to NuGet and that failed as well.

Surprisingly when I switched to 3.5 it worked.

If you are really stuck, run the command in a Command Line Prompt and it will work:

C:\Program Files (x86)\NuGet\nuget.exe restore -NonInteractive E:\agentXYZPool\_work\1\s\xyz.sln

Try using https://www.nuget.org/api/v2instead of https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json per the nuget docs: https://docs.nuget.org/consume/Command-Line-Reference.