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We've received some questions recently about where Microsoft Dev Box is available. While you can always check the latest list at https://aka.ms/devbox/regions, for a quick reference, here’s the current regional availability for Dev Box: Not seeing your region? Drop us a comment below or submit a feedback request via our: https://aka.ms/de...

We have just published the roadmaps for Microsoft Dev Box and Azure Deployment Environments! These roadmaps showcase our plans and upcoming features for both services, reflecting our commitment to enhancing your experience developing in the cloud. Your feedback is invaluable to us.  We’ve built these roadmaps in a direct response to some feedbac...

TLDR: We are excited to introduce team-based customization of Dev Boxes with built in imaging capabilities, using the familiar Dev Box customization format, to help you create and optimize ready-to-code Dev Box configurations for your entire team. Sign up for the private preview here.   Earlier this year, we announced the public preview ...

Dev Box customization now supports native run as user in the customization yaml files. The native run-as-user capability is more powerful in terms of reliability, status tracking and error reporting. You can also see the execution progress on run-as-user customization tasks from Dev Portal. If you are using Dev Box customization, this feature will ...

As the cloud landscape continues to evolve, there is growing need for secure, customizable tools for provisioning application infrastructure to meet unique organizational requirements. Azure Deployment Environments, a flexible and powerful solution that empowers developers to easily deploy app infrastructure in a secure, compliant, and cost-effecti...

It’s hard to believe Microsoft Dev Box has already been generally available for almost a year. Since its inception, we’ve seen Dev Box as a fundamental shift in the way we think about developer workstations—moving from static, physical dev machines to ready-to-code, cloud-based workstations. The response to Dev Box—and the feedback we’ve received f...

Have you heard the latest news about Azure Deployment Environments? Last month, we released an extensibility model that’s set to transform how platform engineers tailor deployments to their organization’s unique needs. This new model empowers you to customize deployments using any infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) framework you prefer—whether that's Bic...