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As part of our engineering processes in Microsoft, we often share best practices and stories of change across the engineering teams in the company. At our latest internal engineering conference as I listened in to sessions, I was struck by the sheer scale of the effort the Windows and Devices Group (WDG) undertook and the problems they've solved us...

Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES (A FEW) SUMMIT TWEETS VIDEOS TIP: If you want to get your VSTS news in audio form then be sure to subscribe to RadioTFS . FEEDBACK What do you think? How could we do this series better? Here are some ways to c...

Git was originally designed for Unix systems and still today, all the build tools for the Git codebase assume you have standard Unix tools available in your path. If you have an open-source mindset and want to start contributing to Git, but primarily use a Windows machine, then you may have trouble getting started. In fact, while responding to com...

We often get asked how to do CI/CD for IoT apps using Win10 IoT Core. If you’ve been considering or using Win10 IoT Core, then read on. The Visual Studio Test Platform that ships with Visual Studio 15.6 RTW now supports Testing on Win10 IoT Core. Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are key practices in DevOps. Integrations ar...

This week we released Visual Studio 2017 Update 6. In this release, you can now push, delete, and view all of the Git tags in your repository. Additionally, if you use Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), you can checkout pull request branches making it easier to review, test, and build changes. To learn more about what else is new in Visual Studio ...

We released updates to Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 4, Team Foundation Server 2017, and Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 3 to fix security vulnerabilities. You can read the details in Brian's blog post. We recommend customers install these updates. The installation process is the same as other updates, where you'll have to go through the Up...

Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES TIPS FEEDBACK What do you think? How could we do this series better? Here are some ways to connect with us:

Ever since we introduced the support for Azure AD groups in VSTS, the usage of Azure AD groups for managing permissions by our customers have grown significantly. The growth in usage also highlighted a gap we had where VSTS took anywhere between 24-48 hours to catch up with any membership changes that happened in upstream Azure AD. This meant a use...

With our Sprint 131 update (rolling out over the next few weeks), there are some major changes coming to the @CurrentIteration macro used for work item queries. We are introducing the concept of a macro parameter, as well as allowing an offset to @CurrentIteration. These updates are mainly motivated by: Using the Team Parameter ...