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March 2023 - Azure DevOps Blog

New Boards Hub Update, Sprint 219

March 22, 2023 Mar 22, 2023 03/22/23
Dan Hellem
Sprint 219 was dedicated to fixing bugs. We continue to drive down the bug backlog as quickly as we can. We will also have a couple new preview features coming that will be announced in the 219 sprint notes. Notable bugs fixed Issue Description Delivery plans tab name Browser tab name should reflect the name of the actual ...

March patches for Azure DevOps Server

March 21, 2023 Mar 21, 2023 03/21/23
Gloridel Morales
This month, we are releasing fixes that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. The following will be fixed with this patch: Addressed issue that required restarting tfsjobagent service and Azure DevOps Server application pool after updating SMTP-related setting in the Azure DevOps Server Management Console. Copy Endpoint state...

Write Your Bicep Files in Visual Studio

March 8, 2023 Mar 8, 2023 03/8/23
April Edwards
The growth of Bicep has increased massively over the last few years for those of you deploying into Azure. The community made it clear that being able to work in Visual Studio and not have to interrupt their workflow was critical to them. The product teams listened and they released a Bicep extension for Visual Studio version 17.3 and higher...

New Boards Hub, Sprint 218 Update

March 7, 2023 Mar 7, 2023 03/7/23
Dan Hellem
Not a lot to report other than a list of issues fixed 😁. Bug fixes will continue at full speed through sprint 219 as well. Notable bugs fixed Issue Description Save Comments permission preventing the saving of images in discussion New save work item comments permission is not allowing the adding of images in a comment. ...

Integrate Azure Load Testing into Azure DevOps

March 7, 2023 Mar 7, 2023 03/7/23
April Edwards
Azure Load Testing became generally available in February 2023. It shipped with a lot of new features that were requested by you, the community. You can get started quickly from within the Azure portal, or upload your own custom JMeter script. Azure Load Testing allows you to find bottlenecks within your application stack, load testing your ...

How to build, test and deploy your application using Azure and GitHub

March 6, 2023 Mar 6, 2023 03/6/23
Liam Hampton
In this blog-tutorial you will: Use GitHub Codespaces (or your own IDE) Create a simple Go web server application Run unit tests on the application Build the application into a multi-stage Docker Image Use the Azure Container Registry (ACR) to store your Docker Images Deploy the application into Azure App Services Automate the delivery ...

Create Azure DevOps Management Reports

March 5, 2023 Mar 5, 2023 03/5/23
April Edwards
When managing any sized organization, there is always the question of how to track and review your existing policies on every single project. There is a solution that can query your exiting projects and provide management reports for a multitude of reports. Using this tool can help you assess and manage all of the projects in your Azure DevOps...