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How do I search using powershell on premise TFS ?

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
powershell
Domain
devops, search

Research direction

Begin with the TFS 2017 Update 2 context, the PowerShell Invoke-RestMethod example, and the linked code-search-results reference. Determine whether the documented endpoint applies to on-premise TFS; done means providing an accurate on-premise usage path or documenting that it is unsupported.

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Description

I am running TFS 2017 on prem update 2

$tfsUrl = 'https://tfs:444/tfs'
$projectId = 'd18ff858-xxxxxxxx'
$teamId = '9907188a-xxxxxxxx'
$tfsRepos = "$tfsUrl/Common/$projectId/_apis/search/codesearchresults?api-version=4.1-preview.1"
$secureCredential = Get-Credential
$allResults = (Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $tfsRepos -Method Post -Credential $secureCredential).value
$allResults= $allResults | Select -first 20

I am getting this error

Invoke-RestMethod :
Page not found. - Microsoft Team Foundation Server

Reference ( Could not find TFS Api reference only for the VSTS one is there )
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/vsts/search/code%20search%20results/fetch%20code%20search%20results

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