DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps
March 30, 2018Mar 30, 201803/30/18Here are the top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics.
Top Stories
Use Cognitive Services in VSTS Custom Branch Policies – Yan Sklyarenko
Following on from the popular post about using Twitter sentiment as a release gate,
March 28, 2018Mar 28, 201803/28/18The Sprint 131 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has rolled out to all accounts and includes several features that were prioritized and influenced by feedback over the last several months.
The Work Items hub, which is now generally available,
March 28, 2018Mar 28, 201803/28/18On January 5, 2018, I announced that Visual Studio Team Services will no longer allow creation of new MSA users with custom domain names backed by AzureAD. While most customers agree with the direction of this change, I got clear feedback that they could not connect their VSTS to AzureAD by the March 31 deadline.
March 28, 2018Mar 28, 201803/28/18We have released Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2 RC1. Update 2 is the first “feature” update for TFS 2018 based on our updated release approach.
Here are some key links:
TFS 2018.2 RC1 Release Notes
TFS 2018.2 RC1 Web Installer
TFS 2018.2 RC1 ISO
TFS 2018.2 RC1 Express Web Installer
TFS 2018.2 RC1 Express ISO
RC1 is a go-live release that is fully supported for installation in your production environment.
March 26, 2018Mar 26, 201803/26/18We are excited to announce that Deployment Groups is out of preview and is now generally available. Deployment Groups is a robust out-of-the-box multi-machine deployment feature of Release Management in VSTS/TFS.
What are Deployment Groups?
With Deployment Groups, you can orchestrate deployments across multiple servers and perform rolling updates,
March 25, 2018Mar 25, 201803/25/18Now you can publish markdown files from a git repository to the VSTS Wiki. Developers often write SDK documents, product documentation, or README files explaining a product in a git repository. Such pages are often updated alongside code in the code repository.
March 23, 2018Mar 23, 201803/23/18Here are the top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics.
Top Stories
How Microsoft Does DevOps – Dave Harrison
An excellent write-up of an interview by Dave Harrison of Aaron Bjork with links to Aaron’s excellent Agile at Microsoft talk and other content about how Microsoft does DevOps.
March 21, 2018Mar 21, 201803/21/18Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) users looking for a lightweight version control experience integrated into Windows File Explorer will be happy to see the latest release of the TFVC Windows Shell Extension. This tool provides convenient access to many TFVC commands right in the explorer context menu,
March 16, 2018Mar 16, 201803/16/18Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics.
TOP STORIES
GitKraken Now Integrates with VSTS – Sara BreedingGitKraken Pro now integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). Inside the app,
March 15, 2018Mar 15, 201803/15/18Over the last couple of years, we built GVFS to enable the Windows team to work in a Git repo that is orders of magnitude larger than any repo in existence before it.
GVFS is currently only supported on Windows 10.
