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January 2018 - Azure DevOps Blog

Supporting AzureAD Conditional Access Policy across VSTS

January 30, 2018 Jan 30, 2018 01/30/18
Justin Marks
In February 2017, VSTS announced support for Azure Active Directory Conditional Access Policy (CAP).  One caveat that was called out in that announcement was that alternate authentication mechanisms, such as personal access tokens, would not enforce CAP. As I discussed previously, many VSTS administrators gave us feedback that they need a ...

Stakeholders can now view VSTS Analytics widgets

January 30, 2018 Jan 30, 2018 01/30/18
Gregg Boer
Why can't Stakeholders view the Analytics widgets? That is a question we often heard. Now we have an answer. They can! Well, now they can. We've updated the VSTS Analytics extension to allow users with Free licenses (Stakeholders license) to view Analytics widgets. This means Stakeholders can view CFD, Lead/Cycle Time, Velocity, Burndown/...

MSTest V2: in-assembly parallel test execution

January 30, 2018 Jan 30, 2018 01/30/18
Pratap Lakshman
Introduction MSTest V2 v1.3.0 Beta2 now supports in-assembly parallel execution of tests - the top most requested/commented issue on the testfx repo. The feature can dramatically reduce the total time taken to execute a suite of tests. To get started, install the framework and adapter from NuGet. If you are already using MSTest V2, then ...

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.01.26

January 26, 2018 Jan 26, 2018 01/26/18
Willy-P. Schaub
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES What I learned about Microsoft doing DevOps: Part 8 – Deploying in a continuous delivery and cloud world or how to deploy on Monday morning - Wouter de Kort In this post I want to highlight some principles that...

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.01.19

January 19, 2018 Jan 19, 2018 01/19/18
Willy-P. Schaub
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Improve Software Testing - Take The Driving Seat - Phil Edward Before you can begin to improve software testing in your organisation, you need to refresh yourself as to why testing is so important. DevOps: ...

January 2018 VSTS Hosted Agent Image Updates

January 19, 2018 Jan 19, 2018 01/19/18
Chris Patterson (MSFT)
The January 2018 updates are rolling out this week and should complete by the end of the day Friday January 19, 2018 GitHub Release #1801 Visual Studio 2017 on Windows Server 2016 Disabled IE Welcome Screen #41Added .NET Core SDK to 2.1.4 Updated Node.js to 8.9.1 #14Updated VisualStudio to 15.5.3 Added Visual Studio Components #...

Link wiki pages and work items, write math formulas in Wiki, Keyboard shortcuts and more…

January 12, 2018 Jan 12, 2018 01/12/18
Sandeep Chadda (MSFT)
Happy new year to all Wiki lovers. We are learning a lot with each passing day and in this blog I will share our learning and value that we delivered in the past few sprints. Few of these features are coming up in this sprint (Jan end). Link work items and Wiki pages In October, we had enabled the referencing work items to a wiki page, now ...

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.01.12

January 12, 2018 Jan 12, 2018 01/12/18
Willy-P. Schaub
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES What I learned about Microsoft doing DevOps: Part 7 – How to shift quality left in a cloud and DevOps world - The Art Of Coding - Wouter de Kort Quality and testing is an essential part of application ...

Power BI and VSTS Analytics

January 11, 2018 Jan 11, 2018 01/11/18
Gregg Boer
We have been working hard to improve the integration between VSTS Analytics and Power BI. We are happy to announce we've released the first step in doing so. The VSTS Power BI Desktop Connector has been updated to provide additional options for historical trend and bug analysis.   Please refer to our guidance on connecting to VSTS with Power...