diff --git a/.pipelines/PowerShell-Packages-Official.yml b/.pipelines/PowerShell-Packages-Official.yml
index edd4692298a..a53bd0c86e1 100644
--- a/.pipelines/PowerShell-Packages-Official.yml
+++ b/.pipelines/PowerShell-Packages-Official.yml
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ variables:
   - name: LinuxContainerImage
     value: mcr.microsoft.com/onebranch/cbl-mariner/build:2.0
   - group: mscodehub-feed-read-akv
+  - name: branchCounterKey
+    value: $[format('{0:yyyyMMdd}-{1}', pipeline.startTime,variables['Build.SourceBranch'])]
+  - name: branchCounter
+    value: $[counter(variables['branchCounterKey'], 1)]
 
 resources:
   pipelines: