diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE
index cf207af2adc5e5e9f7438c830089849e874aaec6..81b9696c6cf73d14519433c2257acb47f6ff28d9 100644
--- a/NOTICE
+++ b/NOTICE
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ The following software have components provided under the terms of this license:
 - AWS SDK for Java - Core (from https://aws.amazon.com/sdkforjava)
 - AWS SDK for Java - Models (from https://aws.amazon.com/sdkforjava)
 - Adapter: RxJava (from https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/squareup/retrofit2/adapter-rxjava)
-- Apache Ant + JUnit (from http://ant.apache.org/)
+- Apache Ant + JUnit (from https://ant.apache.org/)
 - Apache Ant Core (from https://ant.apache.org/)
 - Apache Ant Launcher (from https://ant.apache.org/)
 - Apache Commons CLI (from http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-cli/)
diff --git a/devops/azure/development-pipeline.yml b/devops/azure/development-pipeline.yml
index adbc5ad1f823ba858c2ff2e8e80fa73bd81c2cd7..7f06fb8089f29d7da4beb51e7914f4e9b7547939 100644
--- a/devops/azure/development-pipeline.yml
+++ b/devops/azure/development-pipeline.yml
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ stages:
       chartPath: ${{ variables.chartPath }}
       valuesFile: ${{ variables.valuesFile }}
       testCoreMavenPomFile: 'testing/indexer-test-core/pom.xml'
-      testCoreMavenOptions: '--settings $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/drop/deploy/testing/maven/settings.xml'
+      testCoreMavenOptions: ''
       skipDeploy: ${{ variables.SKIP_DEPLOY }}
       skipTest: ${{ variables.SKIP_TESTS }}
       providers:
diff --git a/devops/azure/pipeline.yml b/devops/azure/pipeline.yml
index 1ccfb6beea0048b15c65afe5629f84b5ca143bb6..5c5a0ecbe174bc7eef0806f23f66ac19378bda36 100644
--- a/devops/azure/pipeline.yml
+++ b/devops/azure/pipeline.yml
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ stages:
       chartPath: ${{ variables.chartPath }}
       valuesFile: ${{ variables.valuesFile }}
       testCoreMavenPomFile: 'testing/indexer-test-core/pom.xml'
-      testCoreMavenOptions: '--settings $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/drop/deploy/testing/maven/settings.xml'
+      testCoreMavenOptions: ''
       skipDeploy: ${{ variables.SKIP_DEPLOY }}
       skipTest: ${{ variables.SKIP_TESTS }}
       providers: