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April 2017 - Azure DevOps Blog

Setup continuous deployment to Azure Government using Visual Studio Team Services

April 30, 2017 Apr 30, 2017 04/30/17
Shashank Bansal
Azure Government clouds provide private and semi-isolated locations for specific Government or other services, separate from the normal Azure services. Highest levels of privacy have been adopted for these clouds, including restricted data access policies. Azure Government clouds require unique Azure endpoints to manage the services...

Team Services Extensions Roundup – April

April 30, 2017 Apr 30, 2017 04/30/17
Joe Bourne
A 6 month high of 30 new Visual Studio Team Services extensions got added to the Marketplace in April. It was really hard to only pick two from such a big set so I encourage everyone to check them all out on the 'Recently Added' section of our Marketplace. There are two extensions I want to highlight this month. One is from a well known Visual...

How to Build & Deploy a Java Web Application using Team Services and Azure

April 25, 2017 Apr 25, 2017 04/25/17
David Staheli
So, you’ve heard the tagline “Microsoft Loves Java” but the skeptic in you still has doubts. Well, it’s true! Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) are Microsoft developer toolkits to help developers plan, design, develop, test, deploy and support (the entire DevOps cycle) with all programming languages, ...

How we use RM – Part 1

April 25, 2017 Apr 25, 2017 04/25/17
Importer
< p>The teams that contribute to VSTS (TFS and other micro-services like Release Management, Package Management, etc) began using Release Management to deploy to production as outlined by Buck Hodges in this blog. However, in Feb this year, there was some feedback that it was difficult to debug failed deployments using RM, and that ...

Configuring your release pipelines for safe deployments

April 24, 2017 Apr 24, 2017 04/24/17
Shashank Bansal
For large and high scale applications, the promise of “enterprise grade” availability and high reliability levels are key to customer confidence on the applications. Continuous delivery pipelines for such scaled out applications typically consist of multiple environments. DevOPS enables faster & automated delivery of changes, thereby ...

Update on Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2017

April 24, 2017 Apr 24, 2017 04/24/17
Jeremy Epling
Last month, we shipped Visual Studio 2017 RTM and since then we’ve had many reports on Team Explorer issues.  In a nutshell, the quality of Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2017 RTM isn’t up to our usual standards. Most of the bugs stem from 2 sets of changes: a major refactor of the authentication library and moving the Git experience ...

Streamlined User Management

April 13, 2017 Apr 13, 2017 04/13/17
Ali Tai
Effective user management helps administrators ensure they are paying for the right resources and enabling the right access in their projects. We've repeatedly heard in support calls and from our customers that they want capabilities to simplify this process in Visual Studio Team Services. I’m excited to announce that we have released a ...

Building Your App in a CI Pipeline with Customized Build Servers (Private Agents)

April 13, 2017 Apr 13, 2017 04/13/17
Chris Patterson (MSFT)
With the expanding number of tools to help you become more productive or to improve the functionality of your app, you may have a requirement for a custom tool or specific version to be used during the build process in a Continuous Integration build. If using Visual Studio Team Services, there may be instances when the Hosted agent won’t ...