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Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.03.30

March 30, 2018 Mar 30, 2018 03/30/18
Martin Woodward
Here are the top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. Top Stories Use Cognitive Services in VSTS Custom Branch Policies - Yan Sklyarenko Following on from the popular post about using Twitter sentiment as a release gate, Yan published an interesting post showing how to use...

What’s new in VSTS Sprint 131 Update

March 28, 2018 Mar 28, 2018 03/28/18
Alex Nichols
The Sprint 131 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has rolled out to all accounts and includes several features that were prioritized and influenced by feedback over the last several months. The Work Items hub, which is now generally available, brings important work together into a new hub with several views for items you’re ...

Deadline extended for connecting VSTS accounts to AzureAD

March 28, 2018 Mar 28, 2018 03/28/18
Justin Marks
On January 5, 2018, I announced that Visual Studio Team Services will no longer allow creation of new MSA users with custom domain names backed by AzureAD.  While most customers agree with the direction of this change, I got clear feedback that they could not connect their VSTS to AzureAD by the March 31 deadline.  Based on this feedback, we...

TFS 2018 Update 2 RC1

March 28, 2018 Mar 28, 2018 03/28/18
Erin Dormier
We have released Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2 RC1. Update 2 is the first "feature" update for TFS 2018 based on our updated release approach. Here are some key links: TFS 2018.2 RC1 Release Notes TFS 2018.2 RC1 Web Installer TFS 2018.2 RC1 ISO TFS 2018.2 RC1 Express Web Installer TFS 2018.2 RC1 Express ISO RC1 is a go-live release ...

Deployment Groups is now generally available: sharing of targets and more…

March 26, 2018 Mar 26, 2018 03/26/18
Roopesh Nair
We are excited to announce that Deployment Groups is out of preview and is now generally available. Deployment Groups is a robust out-of-the-box multi-machine deployment feature of Release Management in VSTS/TFS.  What are Deployment Groups? With Deployment Groups, you can orchestrate deployments across multiple servers and perform rolling...

Announcement: Publish markdown files from your git repository to VSTS Wiki

March 25, 2018 Mar 25, 2018 03/25/18
Sandeep Chadda (MSFT)
Now you can publish markdown files from a git repository to the VSTS Wiki. Developers often write SDK documents, product documentation, or README files explaining a product in a git repository. Such pages are often updated alongside code in the code repository. Git provides a friction free experience where code and docs can live on the same ...

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.03.23

March 23, 2018 Mar 23, 2018 03/23/18
Martin Woodward
Here are the top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. Top Stories How Microsoft Does DevOps - Dave Harrison An excellent write-up of an interview by Dave Harrison of Aaron Bjork with links to Aaron's excellent Agile at Microsoft talk and other content about how Microsoft ...

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.03.16

March 16, 2018 Mar 16, 2018 03/16/18
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 GitKraken Now Integrates with VSTS - Sara BreedingGitKraken Pro now integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). Inside the app, navigate to Preferences > Authentication to set up VSTS integration....

GVFS for Mac

March 15, 2018 Mar 15, 2018 03/15/18
Saeed Noursalehi
Over the last couple of years, we built GVFS to enable the Windows team to work in a Git repo that is orders of magnitude larger than any repo in existence before it. GVFS is currently only supported on Windows 10. We recently announced that we're investigating how to build GVFS on other platforms. I'm excited to say that we've made good ...