This post covers the latest features and enhancements in Microsoft Dev Box. These updates introduce advanced customization capabilities, improved security, performance optimizations, and better developer experience to make Dev Box even more efficient. Last update: 04/03/2025 In this post: Config-as-wor...
This blog post is a continuation from a previous blog post where we talked about Teams Customizations for Microsoft Dev Box and how they accelerate the developer onboarding experience, as well as empower leads for developer teams to ensure all the right tools and settings are present when a developer joins the team and begins work. Developers to...
The following blog walks through the experience of defining and automating the creation of developer environments with the newly announced Teams Customizations feature in Microsoft Dev Box. This allows developer team leads or managers to define the software installed by default every time a developer creates a new environment, ensuring that every t...
We are excited to announce enhanced support for Generation 2 VMs on Azure DevTest Labs, now in public preview. We listened to your feedback and have improved the support for using Generation 2 VMs in Azure DevTest Labs. Generation 2 Virtual Machines (VMs) support key capabilities that are not supported in Generation 1 VMs such as increased memor...
In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, cost efficiency remains a top priority for platform engineers and lab users. To help organizations optimize cloud costs and management, we’re excited to introduce the Hibernation feature for virtual machines (VMs) in Azure DevTest Labs, now in public preview. The new Hibernation feature in Azure...
