February 9, 2018
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Updates from the DevOps VSTS Bot – Jeffrey OpdamDear community, I want to inform you for my upcoming update, which will be deployed on February 10, 2018. VSTS Gems- Identify flaky tests –... Read More
February 2, 2018
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Work can flow across the Sprint boundary – Martin HinshelwoodThere is nothing in the Scrum Guide that says that you can’t have workflow across the Sprint boundary. I’m going to suggest that not... Read More
January 30, 2018
In February 2017, VSTS announced support for Azure Active Directory Conditional Access Policy (CAP). One caveat that was called out in that announcement was that alternate authentication mechanisms, such as personal access tokens, would not enforce CAP. As I discussed previously, many VSTS administrators gave us feedback that they need a way to ensure their users... Read More
January 30, 2018
Why can’t Stakeholders view the Analytics widgets? That is a question we often heard. Now we have an answer. They can! Well, now they can. We’ve updated the VSTS Analytics extension to allow users with Free licenses (Stakeholders license) to view Analytics widgets. This means Stakeholders can view CFD, Lead/Cycle Time, Velocity, Burndown/Burnup widgets. For more... Read More
January 30, 2018
Introduction MSTest V2 v1.3.0 Beta2 now supports in-assembly parallel execution of tests – the top most requested/commented issue on the testfx repo. The feature can dramatically reduce the total time taken to execute a suite of tests. To get started, install the framework and adapter from NuGet. If you are already using MSTest V2, then... Read More
January 29, 2018
A few weeks ago, I posted about a change coming to organizations managing their identities with Microsoft Accounts (MSAs); as of March 30th, you will no longer able to create new MSAs with a custom domain name that is linked to an Azure Active Directory tenant. Many customers have reached out asking how this change affects... Read More
January 26, 2018
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES What I learned about Microsoft doing DevOps: Part 8 – Deploying in a continuous delivery and cloud world or how to deploy on Monday morning – Wouter de Kort In this post I... Read More
January 19, 2018
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Improve Software Testing – Take The Driving Seat – Phil Edward Before you can begin to improve software testing in your organisation, you need to refresh yourself as to why testing is so... Read More
January 19, 2018
The January 2018 updates are rolling out this week and should complete by the end of the day Friday January 19, 2018 GitHub Release #1801 Visual Studio 2017 on Windows Server 2016 Disabled IE Welcome Screen #41 Added .NET Core SDK to 2.1.4 Updated Node.js to 8.9.1 #14 Updated VisualStudio to 15.5.3 Added Visual Studio... Read More
January 12, 2018
Happy new year to all Wiki lovers. We are learning a lot with each passing day and in this blog I will share our learning and value that we delivered in the past few sprints. Few of these features are coming up in this sprint (Jan end). Link work items and Wiki pages In October,... Read More