Powershell is used very often on Azure DevOps tasks, as with it you can implement functionality that is not supported out of the box.
In this article I will explain some options that you may need during your executions.
You can fail a task on Azure Devops with powershell checks. For instance you can integrate your logic and if you get a response that is not the requested you can fail the task.
Fail a powershell task on Azure DevOps
$json = WebServiceCall ConvertFrom-Json
if ($json.value-eq "correct") { Write-Host success } else { exit 1 }
Continue a failed task on Azure DevOps.
Under control options you should enable continue on error
This will result on a partial success.
Retry a failed task on failure
Run the task under certain conditions
Change working directory of powershell
When running a file path and not an inline script you can also define arguments
