Rajesh Ramamurthy (MSFT)

Director of Product Management, Azure DevOps

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Deprecating weak cryptographic standards (TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1) in Azure DevOps

November 30th, 2021
Due to the potential for future protocol downgrade attacks and other Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol versions 1.0 and 1.1 vulnerabilities not specific to Microsoft’s implementation, it is required that dependencies on all security protocols older than TLS 1.2 be removed wherever possible. Per Microsoft’s position to protect ...

Policy support to restrict creating new Azure DevOps organizations

December 6th, 2019
We are rolling out a new tenant policy in Azure DevOps to configure who are allowed to create new Azure DevOps organizations in your company.

Signing into Azure DevOps using your GitHub credentials

May 8th, 2019
Today, we are enabling developers to sign in with their existing GitHub account to Microsoft online services, on any Microsoft log in page. Using your GitHub credentials, you can now sign in via OAuth anywhere a personal Microsoft account does, including Azure DevOps and Azure.

Protecting our users from the ESLint NPM package breach

July 18th, 2018
On the 12th of July 2018, malicious code was detected in two popular open-source NPM packages, eslint-scope (version 3.7.2) and eslint-config-eslint (version 5.0.2). As a result, developers who downloaded and installed these packages may have had credentials stored in their .npmrc file compromised. This may include credentials required to ...

Reducing the latency of permissions inherited through AAD Group memberships

March 1st, 2018
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 ...

Cloud Solution Provider – Purchase from Visual Studio Marketplace Roadmap

May 9th, 2017
Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) is a one stop program for Microsoft partners to sell all Microsoft online commercial services to their customers. While CSP partners can purchase O365, Azure and other commercial services for their customers from Microsoft today, they can't purchase Visual Studio subscriptions, team services users and many first ...