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Jan 30, 2018
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MSTest V2: in-assembly parallel test execution

Pratap Lakshman
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 upgrade to...

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Jan 29, 2018
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VS Subscriptions and linking your VSTS account to AzureAD

Justin Marks
Justin Marks

A few weeks ago, I posted about a change coming to organizations managing their identities with Microsoft Accounts (MSAs); as of March 30th, you will no longer able to create new MSAs with a custom domain name that is linked to an Azure Active Directory tenant.  Many customers have reached out asking how this change affects their Visual Studio subs...

DevOpsSecurityAdmin & Licensing
Jan 26, 2018
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Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.01.26

Willy-P. Schaub
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 RADIOTFS 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 bett...

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Jan 19, 2018
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Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.01.19

Willy-P. Schaub
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 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 be...

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Jan 19, 2018
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January 2018 VSTS Hosted Agent Image Updates

Chris Patterson (MSFT)
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 Linux

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Jan 12, 2018
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Link wiki pages and work items, write math formulas in Wiki, Keyboard shortcuts and more…

Sandeep Chadda (MSFT)
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 you ca...

DevOpsGit & Version ControlWiki
Jan 12, 2018
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Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.01.12

Willy-P. Schaub
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 RADIOTFS 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 be...

DevOpsCommunity
Jan 11, 2018
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Power BI and VSTS Analytics

Gregg Boer
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 BI Da...

DevOpsAgileReporting
Jan 11, 2018
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Microsoft’s Performance Contributions to Git in 2017

Derrick Stolee
Derrick Stolee

Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) hosts the largest Git repository in the world: the Windows source code. Keeping a primary copy of the code available in the cloud and having it be performant while being updated by over 4000 users at the same time is a monumental achievement, but it is only useful if engineers can use the core Git client on their ...

DevOpsGit & Version ControlOpen Source
Jan 11, 2018
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Sharing of Deployment Groups across projects

Abhishek Agrawai
Abhishek Agrawai

Last year we released Deployment Groups in Public Preview during the May 2017 timeframe, which enabled customers to deploy software to their IaaS machines.  One of the big pieces of feedback we received was that this only partially addressed the scenario of customers sharing their IaaS machines (deployment targets) across multiple applications. For...

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