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Revoking potentially impacted tokens from ESLint vulnerability

August 8, 2018 Aug 8, 2018 08/8/18

Justin Marks

On the 24th of July 2018, we notified some customers via e-mail and on this blog about a planned action that we would start taking in relation to the malicious ESLint NPM package incident. This action is now underway.

Enabling administrators to revoke VSTS access tokens

July 24, 2018 Jul 24, 2018 07/24/18

Justin Marks

As promised in the Protecting our users from the ESLint NPM package breach blog post last week, we have deployed new REST APIs to allow administrators of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) accounts to centrally revoke Personal Access Tokens (PAT) and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) created by users in their accounts. We've reviewed our system ...

If I am a VSTS Stakeholder, can I also be an Admin?

July 5, 2018 Jul 5, 2018 07/5/18

Paris Morgan

Today, we’re excited to announce that users with the Stakeholder access level can now be administrators in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). With these upcoming changes, Stakeholders can administer access levels, permissions, and settings – if they have been granted permissions to do so. Previously, they were only able to invite users ...

VSTS Public Projects Limited Preview

April 27, 2018 Apr 27, 2018 04/27/18

Jamie Cool

Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) offers a suite of DevOps capabilities to developers including Source control, Agile planning, Build, Release, Test and more. But until now all these features require the user to first login using a Microsoft Account before they can be used. Today, we’re starting a limited preview of a new capability that...

Deadline extended for connecting VSTS accounts to AzureAD

March 28, 2018 Mar 28, 2018 03/28/18

Justin Marks

On January 5, 2018, I announced that Visual Studio Team Services will no longer allow creation of new MSA users with custom domain names backed by AzureAD. While most customers agree with the direction of this change, I got clear feedback that they could not connect their VSTS to AzureAD by the March 31 deadline. Based on this feedback, we...

Supporting AzureAD Conditional Access Policy across VSTS

January 30, 2018 Jan 30, 2018 01/30/18

Justin Marks

In February 2017, VSTS announced support for Azure Active Directory Conditional Access Policy (CAP). One caveat that was called out in that announcement was that alternate authentication mechanisms, such as personal access tokens, would not enforce CAP. As I discussed previously, many VSTS administrators gave us feedback that they need a ...

VS Subscriptions and linking your VSTS account to AzureAD

January 29, 2018 Jan 29, 2018 01/29/18

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 ...

VSTS will no longer allow creation of new MSA users with custom domain names backed by AzureAD

January 5, 2018 Jan 5, 2018 01/5/18

Justin Marks

3-28-2018 UPDATE : The deadline listed below has been extended to the end of September. Read my latest blog post for more information. On September 15, 2016, the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) team blocked the ability to create new Microsoft accounts using email addresses in domains that are configured in Azure AD. Many VSTS customers ...

Improved user settings in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)

July 26, 2017 Jul 26, 2017 07/26/17

Whitney Jenkins

We're excited to announce some upcoming changes that will make it easier to update your user settings. Here is a preview of what's coming in Q4 2017. Coming Q4 2017 Updated user interface (image) We're updating the navigation and polishing the user experience. Today, navigation in user settings consists of two ...

Improved alternate authentication experience for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)

July 14, 2017 Jul 14, 2017 07/14/17

Justin Marks

Recently, we've heard feedback from customers that developers have a poor experience creating and managing their alternate authentication credentials and that administrators moving from TFS to the cloud aren't provided the policies they need to enforce how alternate authentication is used by their end users. This post will describe our plans...

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