April 27, 2018
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics, listed in no specific order: TOP STORIES Tip: Creating Task Groups with Azure Service Endpoint ParametersColin Dembovsky introduces the DRY practice “Don’t Repeat Yourself” with Release Management and Task Groups. Benefits of Agile for TestersAdam... Read More
April 27, 2018
Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) offers a suite of DevOps capabilities to developers including Source control, Agile planning, Build, Release, Test and more. But until now all these features require the user to first login using a Microsoft Account before they can be used. Today, we’re starting a limited preview of a new capability that... Read More
April 20, 2018
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics, listed in no specific order: TOP STORIES VSTS Gems – Marketplace, the one stop location for added functionalityRui Melo highlights the place to find widgets and extensions to enhance your VSTS experience. Opps, I made... Read More
April 19, 2018
Whenever I talk to somebody about Git and version control, one question always comes up: How do you do your branching at Microsoft? And there’s no one answer to this question. Although we’ve been moving everybody in the company into one engineering system, standardizing on Git hosted in Visual Studio Team Services, what we haven’t... Read More
April 17, 2018
The Sprint 132 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has rolled out to all accounts and includes several features to help you scale your build and release pipeline. If you have multiple, dependent teams in your organization working on large products, check out the new build completion trigger. It allows you to chain two... Read More
April 17, 2018
We have released Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2 RC2. You can see details about Update 2, including some key new features, in our RC1 blog post. RC2 is our last planned release before TFS 2018 Update 2 RTW. Here are some key links: TFS 2018.2 RC2 Release Notes TFS 2018.2 RC2 Web Installer TFS... Read More
April 16, 2018
We are excited to announce an easy-to-use solution for integrating Power BI with VSTS Analytics. You don’t have to know how to write OData queries anymore! Our new feature Analytics views makes getting VSTS work tracking data into Power BI simple, and it works for the largest accounts. Similar to a work items query, an... Read More
April 13, 2018
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics, listed in no specific order: TOP STORIES Is there a place for DevOps in desktop software development?Andrei Marukovich raises the question whether the DevOps principles, widely accepted by cloud and Web projects, may benefit desktop... Read More
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