{Packaging} FIX: windows pool upgraded from 2019 to 2022

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Description

windows pool upgraded from 2019 to 2022. The Msibuild path is updated w.r.t windows pool 2022 vm.
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[Component Name 1] BREAKING CHANGE: az command a: Make some customer-facing breaking change
[Component Name 2] az command b: Add some customer-facing feature

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Pull request overview

Updates Azure Pipelines Windows agent pool selection to Windows Server 2022 and aligns the local Windows MSI build script with the expected Visual Studio 2022 MSBuild install location.

Changes:

• Switch pipeline windows_pool from pool-windows-2019 to pool-windows-2022.
• Update build.cmd PATH to include Visual Studio 2022 MSBuild instead of Visual Studio 2019.

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File	Description
build_scripts/windows/scripts/build.cmd	Updates MSBuild location in PATH for building MSI on Windows 2022/VS2022 environments.
.azure-pipelines/templates/variables.yml	Moves pipeline Windows pool variable to the 2022 pool.

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Using %ProgramFiles% for the VS2022 MSBuild path can resolve to the 32-bit "Program Files (x86)" when the script is run from a 32-bit process, which would break MSBuild discovery (VS2022 installs under the 64-bit Program Files). Prefer using %ProgramW6432% (or vswhere to locate MSBuild) to make the PATH update reliable across environments.

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	set "PATH=%PATH%;%ProgramFiles%\Git\bin;%ProgramFiles%\Git\usr\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin;%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin"
	set "VS2022_PROGRAM_FILES=%ProgramW6432%"
	if "!VS2022_PROGRAM_FILES!"=="" (
	set "VS2022_PROGRAM_FILES=%ProgramFiles%"
	)
	set "PATH=%PATH%;%ProgramFiles%\Git\bin;%ProgramFiles%\Git\usr\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin;!VS2022_PROGRAM_FILES!\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin"