diff --git a/ci/azure/pipelines.yml b/ci/azure/pipelines.yml
index fdf9d92d7..388d6db04 100644
--- a/ci/azure/pipelines.yml
+++ b/ci/azure/pipelines.yml
@@ -40,12 +40,20 @@ jobs:
   timeoutInMinutes: 360
 
   steps:
+  - powershell: |
+      (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile("https://github.com/msys2/msys2-installer/releases/download/2020-06-02/msys2-base-x86_64-20200602.sfx.exe", "sfx.exe")
+      .\sfx.exe -y -o\
+      del sfx.exe
+    displayName: Download/Extract/Install MSYS2
   - script: |
-      git clone https://github.com/msys2/msys2-ci-base.git %CD:~0,2%\msys64
-      %CD:~0,2%\msys64\usr\bin\rm -rf %CD:~0,2%\msys64\.git
-      set PATH=%CD:~0,2%\msys64\usr\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem
-      %CD:~0,2%\msys64\usr\bin\pacman --noconfirm -Syyuu
-    displayName: Install and Update MSYS2
+      @REM install updated filesystem package first without dependency checking
+      @REM because of: https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/2021
+      %CD:~0,2%\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "pacman --noconfirm -Sydd filesystem"
+    displayName: Workaround filesystem dash MSYS2 dependency issue
+  - script: |
+      %CD:~0,2%\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "pacman --noconfirm -Syuu"
+      %CD:~0,2%\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "pacman --noconfirm -Syuu"
+    displayName: Update MSYS2
   - task: DownloadSecureFile@1
     inputs:
       secureFile: s3cfg
diff --git a/ci/azure/windows_msvc_install b/ci/azure/windows_msvc_install
index ece3bbde1..8ac5181ca 100644
--- a/ci/azure/windows_msvc_install
+++ b/ci/azure/windows_msvc_install
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ set -x
 set -e
 
 pacman -Su --needed --noconfirm
-pacman -S --needed --noconfirm wget p7zip python3-pip
+pacman -S --needed --noconfirm wget p7zip python3-pip tar xz
 pip install s3cmd
 wget -nv "https://ziglang.org/deps/llvm%2bclang%2blld-10.0.0-x86_64-windows-msvc-release-mt.tar.xz"
 tar xf llvm+clang+lld-10.0.0-x86_64-windows-msvc-release-mt.tar.xz