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DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps

How VSTS is Accelerating the Engineering Group Behind Windows

March 12, 2018 Mar 12, 2018 03/12/18

Martin Woodward

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 ...

How to Contribute to Git (on Windows)

March 8, 2018 Mar 8, 2018 03/8/18

Derrick Stolee

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 ...

DevOps for IoT with Win10 IoT Core, UWP, and VSTS

March 7, 2018 Mar 7, 2018 03/7/18

Pratap Lakshman

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. ...

New Git Features in Visual Studio 2017 Update 6

March 6, 2018 Mar 6, 2018 03/6/18

Kayla Ngan (MSFT)

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 ...

Security updates for TFS 2015 Update 4, TFS 2017, and TFS 2017 Update 3

March 2, 2018 Mar 2, 2018 03/2/18

Erin Dormier

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 ...

Reducing the latency of permissions inherited through AAD Group memberships

March 1, 2018 Mar 1, 2018 03/1/18

Rajesh Ramamurthy (MSFT)

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 ...

@CurrentIteration, Team Parameter, Offset

March 1, 2018 Mar 1, 2018 03/1/18

Lauren Brose

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 ...