diff --git a/.azure-pipelines/build-docker-sonic-vs-template.yml b/.azure-pipelines/build-docker-sonic-vs-template.yml
index 163230a66..16042c74f 100644
--- a/.azure-pipelines/build-docker-sonic-vs-template.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/build-docker-sonic-vs-template.yml
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ jobs:
       path: $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download
       runVersion: 'latestFromBranch'
       runBranch: 'refs/heads/$(BUILD_BRANCH)'
+      allowPartiallySucceededBuilds: true
     displayName: "Download sonic swss common deb packages"
   - task: DownloadPipelineArtifact@2
     inputs:
diff --git a/.azure-pipelines/build-swss-template.yml b/.azure-pipelines/build-swss-template.yml
index 0ca1ea72c..90850974a 100644
--- a/.azure-pipelines/build-swss-template.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/build-swss-template.yml
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ jobs:
       git status
     displayName: Set up sonic-swss branch
   - script: |
+      set -ex
+      sudo apt-get update
       sudo apt-get install -y libhiredis0.14 libhiredis-dev
       sudo apt-get install -y libzmq5 libzmq3-dev
       sudo apt-get install -qq -y \
@@ -76,6 +78,7 @@ jobs:
       artifact: ${{ parameters.swss_common_artifact_name }}
       runVersion: 'latestFromBranch'
       runBranch: 'refs/heads/$(BUILD_BRANCH)'
+      allowPartiallySucceededBuilds: true
       path: $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download
       patterns: |
         libswsscommon_1.0.0_*.deb
diff --git a/.azure-pipelines/build-template.yml b/.azure-pipelines/build-template.yml
index a7bb26769..49db3d521 100644
--- a/.azure-pipelines/build-template.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/build-template.yml
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ jobs:
     clean: true
     submodules: true
   - script: |
+      set -ex
+      sudo apt-get update
       sudo apt-get install -qq -y \
         qtbase5-dev \
         libdbus-glib-1-2 \
@@ -137,6 +139,7 @@ jobs:
       artifact: ${{ parameters.swss_common_artifact_name }}
       runVersion: 'latestFromBranch'
       runBranch: 'refs/heads/$(BUILD_BRANCH)'
+      allowPartiallySucceededBuilds: true
       path: $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download
     displayName: "Download sonic swss common deb packages"
   - script: |
diff --git a/.azure-pipelines/build_and_install_module.sh b/.azure-pipelines/build_and_install_module.sh
index 493a2f04e..35c519634 100755
--- a/.azure-pipelines/build_and_install_module.sh
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/build_and_install_module.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ function build_and_install_kmodule()
     SUBLEVEL=$(echo $KERNEL_MAINVERSION | cut -d. -f3)
 
     # Install the required debian packages to build the kernel modules
+    apt-get update
     apt-get install -y build-essential linux-headers-${KERNEL_RELEASE} autoconf pkg-config fakeroot
     apt-get install -y flex bison libssl-dev libelf-dev
     apt-get install -y libnl-route-3-200 libnl-route-3-dev libnl-cli-3-200 libnl-cli-3-dev libnl-3-dev
diff --git a/.azure-pipelines/test-docker-sonic-vs-template.yml b/.azure-pipelines/test-docker-sonic-vs-template.yml
index 16914f4c9..9390629d0 100644
--- a/.azure-pipelines/test-docker-sonic-vs-template.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/test-docker-sonic-vs-template.yml
@@ -42,12 +42,14 @@ jobs:
       path: $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download
       runVersion: 'latestFromBranch'
       runBranch: 'refs/heads/$(BUILD_BRANCH)'
+      allowPartiallySucceededBuilds: true
     displayName: "Download sonic swss common deb packages"
 
   - script: |
       set -ex
       sudo sonic-sairedis/.azure-pipelines/build_and_install_module.sh
 
+      sudo apt-get update
       sudo apt-get install -y libhiredis0.14 libyang0.16
       sudo dpkg -i --force-confask,confnew $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download/libswsscommon_1.0.0_amd64.deb || apt-get install -f
       sudo dpkg -i $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download/python3-swsscommon_1.0.0_amd64.deb
@@ -82,6 +84,8 @@ jobs:
       fi
       rm -rf $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/download
     displayName: "Run vs tests"
+    ${{ if ne(variables['Build.Reason'], 'PullRequest') }}:
+      continueOnError: true
 
   - task: PublishTestResults@2
     inputs: