diff --git a/devops/service-pipeline.yml b/devops/service-pipeline.yml
index 7313dae70231fac31fd04d9c85e4f0519d518513..e1dce1ba191151f7f62a0e1052f278f3aaf84512 100644
--- a/devops/service-pipeline.yml
+++ b/devops/service-pipeline.yml
@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@ variables:
 
   - name: serviceName
     value: 'indexer'
-  - name: AGENT_POOL
-    value: 'dps-build' # uses open-jdk (outdated cli causes automated startup command to fail)
 
 resources:
   repositories:
@@ -52,7 +50,7 @@ stages:
     parameters:
       serviceName: ${{ variables.serviceName }}
       testCoreMavenPomFile: 'testing/indexer-test-core/pom.xml'
-      testCoreMavenOptions: '--settings $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/drop/deploy/testing/maven/settings.xml'
+      testCoreMavenOptions: '--settings $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/drop/deploy/testing/maven/settings.xml -DVSTS_FEED_TOKEN=$(VSTS_FEED_TOKEN) -U'
       providers:
         -  name: Azure
            environments: ['devint']