Pull Request Decoration not working with Azure DevOps Server 2019

  • Go To Administration
  • Hover over Projects
  • Select Background Tasks
  • Click the Gear Icon of a task that has recently failed to decorate a Pull Request
  • Select Show Warnings
  • Mine said the following

“Pull request decoration failed because the token specified in the settings does not have sufficient rights. Please check the permissions of this token.”

  • Created a new Token and saved it under configuration

Not related to the certificate at all. The Background Tasks area provided more details about what was wrong over the logs.