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Known issue with publishing extensions: “Your ability to create global personal access tokens (PATs) is restricted by your organization.”

pazand November 9, 2021 Nov 9, 2021 11/9/21

If you’ve run into trouble while trying to publish an Azure DevOps or Visual Studio extension to the Visual Studio Marketplace, please ask your administrator if they have enabled the new policy to restrict the creation of global personal access tokens (PATs).

New policies to restrict personal access token scope and lifespan

pazand June 3, 2021 Jun 3, 2021 06/3/21

Azure DevOps Administrators can now define a maximum lifespan for personal access tokens (PATs) and restrict the creation of global and full-scoped personal access tokens (PATs). These policies will affect all users and Azure DevOps organizations linked to the Azure AD tenant.

Limit user visibility and collaboration to specific projects

pazand February 22, 2021 Feb 22, 2021 02/22/21

This sprint we’re releasing a public preview feature to enable organization administrators in [Azure DevOps](https://azure.microsoft.com/services/devops/) to restrict users from seeing and collaborating with users in different projects.

Supporting SHA-2 algorithm in SSH on Azure DevOps

Jimson Chalissery [MSFT] March 18, 2020 Mar 18, 2020 03/18/20

With the release of OpenSSH 8.2 last month, connections to SSH servers using SHA-1 was disabled by default in the OpenSSH client. We understand that this move helps improve the security of SSH connections, by encouraging all users to adopt the SHA-2 class of algorithms, generally considered safer. However, this resulted in OpenSSH users not ...

Policy support to restrict creating new Azure DevOps organizations

Rajesh Ramamurthy (MSFT) December 6, 2019 Dec 6, 2019 12/6/19

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.

Bring your GitHub collaborators to Azure DevOps

Jimson Chalissery [MSFT] July 22, 2019 Jul 22, 2019 07/22/19

Today we’re announcing the next step in the journey of making Azure DevOps and GitHub work great together. If you are an admin, sign into Azure DevOps with your GitHub identity, and you can now invite your GitHub team members.

Auditing for Azure DevOps is now in Public Preview

Octavio Licea Leon June 26, 2019 Jun 26, 2019 06/26/19

Auditing for Azure DevOps is now available for all organizations as a Public Preview! A new way to monitor activities and changes throughout Azure DevOps organizations.

A simpler way to buy Azure DevOps

Todd Manion May 6, 2019 May 6, 2019 05/6/19

We are constantly working to improve our experience end-to-end, including how our products are purchased. In response to feedback from our customers, we are pleased to announce some changes that will simplify how some Azure DevOps services are purchased.

ExpressRoute for Azure DevOps

Martin Woodward October 23, 2018 Oct 23, 2018 10/23/18

Today we are excited to announce that Azure DevOps is now available over Azure ExpressRoute. Customers who typically operate in the government and financial services sectors have requested this support because they want private connections that don’t go over the public Internet for security reasons. ExpressRoute also typically offers them more reliability, faster speeds, and lower latencies than typical Internet connections.

Using AzureAD identities in Azure DevOps organizations backed by Microsoft Accounts

Justin Marks September 27, 2018 Sep 27, 2018 09/27/18

Azure DevOps now supports AzureAD (AAD) users accessing organizations that are backed by Microsoft accounts (MSA). For administrators, this means that if your organization uses MSAs for corporate users, new employees can use their AAD credentials for access instead of creating a new MSA identity.

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