We're thrilled to announce that Azure DevTest Labs has joined the Visual Studio Developer Community to collect valuable feedback and suggestions from our customers. 🌟 This fantastic feedback portal is here to make your experience smoother and more engaging. It's your go-to place to connect with the Azure DevTest Labs product and engineering team...
We are excited to announce preview of enhancements in Azure DevTest Labs designed to accommodate two upcoming retirements in Azure: These retirements will not impact VMs with Private IPs. However, they will impact VMs with Public or Shared IPs in the following ways: Impact on VMs with Public IPs: ...
What features and enhancements are planned for Microsoft Dev Box Microsoft Dev Box continues to evolve, providing a secure, scalable, and ready-to-code cloud-based development environment. Over the next few months, significant improvements will focus on three key areas: By prioritizing these enhancements, Microsoft aims to boost...
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: 03/21/2025 In this post: Config-as-wor...
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...
We’re excited to announced new support in Azure DevTest labs for accessing Azure DevOps artifact repos via Managed Identities and GitHub artifact repos through GitHub app authentication. Additionally, the lab storage account can also now be accessed via Managed Identities. Until now, users have relied on Personal Access Tokens (PATs) and Storage...
At Microsoft, we are dedicated to shaping a developer experience that is efficient, user-friendly, and tailored to your needs. With the new landing page and welcome tour, we’re excited to empower you to work more effectively and unlock new levels of productivity. Together, we’re building a platform that evolves with you. At Microso...
Streamline Your Development Workflow with Dev Box Customizations Are you looking to enhance your team's development environment? Look no further! With Microsoft Dev Box, you can now customize your development boxes to fit your team's specific needs. Let's dive into how you can leverage Dev Box customizations to streamline your workflow. What ...
If you’ve been following our journey with Azure Deployment Environments (ADE), you’ll know we’ve been on a mission to make the service as seamless and simple as possible to help developers access the infrastructure they need. Earlier this year at Build, we were excited to announce continued improvements to the ADE extensibility model that enable pl...
