April 6, 2018
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics, in no specific order: TOP STORIES TRAINING: Free “DevOps” Professional Training & CertificationKurt Shintaku introduces 8 courses, totaling 128-256 hours of training, to allow people to up their skill How we checked & fixed the... Read More
March 30, 2018
Here 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, Yan published an interesting post showing how to... Read More
March 28, 2018
The 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, brings important work together into a new hub with several views for items you’re... Read More
March 28, 2018
On 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. ... Read More
March 28, 2018
We 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... Read More
March 26, 2018
We 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, while ensuring high availability of your application... Read More
March 25, 2018
This feature will be available in VSTS after the deployment of the Sprint 132 update is completed. Now 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... Read More
March 23, 2018
Here 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... Read More
March 21, 2018
Team 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, and the latest release adds support for Team... Read More
March 16, 2018
Here 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, navigate to Preferences > Authentication to set up VSTS integration. Creating a... Read More