Azure Prepare Task Missing Organization Property

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  • SonarQube Community 25.3.0.104237, .NET Scanner 7.1.1
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I’m trying to get an azure devops pipeline to run code analyses on a primarily C# codebase but I keep running into errors during the Prepare task, here is the output:

D:\agent\_work\_tasks\SonarQubePrepare_15b84ca1-b62f-4a2a-a403-89b77a063157\7.1.1\classic-sonar-scanner-msbuild\SonarScanner.MSBuild.exe begin /k:Test-Project
SonarScanner for MSBuild 9.0.2
Using the .NET Framework version of the Scanner for MSBuild
Pre-processing started.
Preparing working directories...
17:35:00.828  Updating build integration targets...
17:35:00.96  Using SonarQube v25.3.0.104237.
17:35:00.993  Fetching analysis configuration settings...
##[error]17:35:01.252  Pre-processing failed. Exit code: 1
17:35:01.252  Pre-processing failed. Exit code: 1
##[error][ERROR] SonarQube Server: Error while executing task Prepare: The process 'D:\agent\_work\_tasks\SonarQubePrepare_15b84ca1-b62f-4a2a-a403-89b77a063157\7.1.1\classic-sonar-scanner-msbuild\SonarScanner.MSBuild.exe' failed with exit code 1
##[error]The process 'D:\agent\_work\_tasks\SonarQubePrepare_15b84ca1-b62f-4a2a-a403-89b77a063157\7.1.1\classic-sonar-scanner-msbuild\SonarScanner.MSBuild.exe' failed with exit code 1
Finishing: Prepare analysis on SonarQube Server

The errors are not very helpful here so I tried navigating to the directory and executing the same command, which produced this output in powershell:

D:\agent\_work\_tasks\SonarQubePrepare_15b84ca1-b62f-4a2a-a403-89b77a063157\7.1.1\classic-sonar-scanner-msbuild> .\SonarScanner.MSBuild.exe begin /k:Test-Project
SonarScanner for MSBuild 9.0.2
Using the .NET Framework version of the Scanner for MSBuild
Pre-processing started.
Preparing working directories...
12:07:35.742  Updating build integration targets...
12:07:37.463  Organization parameter (/o:"<organization>") is required and needs to be provided!
12:07:37.465  WARNING: In version 7 of the scanner, the default value for the sonar.host.url changed from "http://localhost:9000" to "https://sonarcloud.io".
If the intention was to connect to the local SonarQube instance, please add the parameter: /d:sonar.host.url="http://localhost:9000"
12:07:37.466  Pre-processing failed. Exit code: 1

If I retry the command but add /o:"sonar" to the end, it seems to fix the error and it ends with “Pre-processing succeeded.” but I don’t see a way to do that using the azure devops task. I tried adding things like sonar.organization="sonar", organization="sonar", /o:"sonar" to the “Additional Properties” box but it didn’t seem to do anything.

I tried using a script in the pipeline that would just execute the working command in that same directory, it seems to work but then the Analysis task complains that the Prepare task wasn’t run.

Finally, I tried running the same script that executes the working command, and then running a Prepare task right afterwards that I let continue on failure, to see if I could trick the Analysis task into running. The Analysis task does try to run but gets an error, here is the output:

D:\agent\_work\_tasks\SonarQubePrepare_15b84ca1-b62f-4a2a-a403-89b77a063157\7.1.1\classic-sonar-scanner-msbuild\SonarScanner.MSBuild.exe end
SonarScanner for MSBuild 9.0.2
Using the .NET Framework version of the Scanner for MSBuild
Post-processing started.
##[error]11:57:12.917  SonarQube analysis could not be completed because the analysis configuration file could not be found: D:\agent\_work\24\.sonarqube\conf\SonarQubeAnalysisConfig.xml.
11:57:12.917  SonarQube analysis could not be completed because the analysis configuration file could not be found: D:\agent\_work\24\.sonarqube\conf\SonarQubeAnalysisConfig.xml.
##[error]11:57:12.917  Post-processing failed. Exit code: 1
11:57:12.917  Post-processing failed. Exit code: 1
##[error][ERROR] SonarQube Server: Error while executing task Analyze: The process 'D:\agent\_work\_tasks\SonarQubePrepare_15b84ca1-b62f-4a2a-a403-89b77a063157\7.1.1\classic-sonar-scanner-msbuild\SonarScanner.MSBuild.exe' failed with exit code 1
##[error]The process 'D:\agent\_work\_tasks\SonarQubePrepare_15b84ca1-b62f-4a2a-a403-89b77a063157\7.1.1\classic-sonar-scanner-msbuild\SonarScanner.MSBuild.exe' failed with exit code 1
Finishing: Run Code Analysis

I guess running the command like that instead of the actual pipeline task doesn’t generate a file that it needs…

While investigating I found a few threads of people who have similar issues where the “organization” parameter is required but there is no default value for it set. These bugs seem to have been closed, but for SonarQube Cloud, not SonarQube Community:

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Hey there.

I suggest you focus your efforts on solving this issue. The latter is caused by you not specifying soanr.host.url (so it connects to sonarcloud.io by default, which requires an organization parameter).

Can you turn on DEBUG logging in a pipeline run? This should give more details about why this fails: