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Jan 6, 2025
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Reducing personal access token (PAT) usage across Azure DevOps

Angel Wong
Angel Wong

In the new year, we’ll be making moves towards strengthening Microsoft and our customers' security posture in regards to the usage and creation of personal access tokens (PATs). If you’ve been following this blog, you may have noticed we’ve been distancing away from PATs as the recommended authentication method for Azure DevOps APIs by offering re...

Azure & CloudSecurity
Jan 5, 2025
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Important: Switching CDN providers

Clayton Kanyika
Clayton Kanyika

The current content delivery network (CDN) provider Edgio, used by Azure DevOps is retiring. We're urgently transitioning to a solution served by Akamai and Azure Front Door CDNs to maintain the responsiveness of our services. What this means for you For most of you, this transition will be seamless. To ensure that you can continue to access Azu...

Azure & Cloud
Dec 11, 2024
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New Boards Hub Rollout Expectations

Dan Hellem
Dan Hellem

Although the process may seem slow, we are steadily progressing toward rolling out the New Boards Hub to all customers. Our plan is to deprecate the old Boards experience for all Azure DevOps service users by the end Q1 2025. The rollout is advancing on two fronts. First, we are setting the New Boards Hub as the default experience. Second, for cus...

DevOpsAzure & CloudCommunity
Dec 3, 2024
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Microsoft DevLabs Extensions

Dan Hellem
Dan Hellem

The Microsoft DevLabs publisher was created as a hub for internal teams at Microsoft to channel their passion for Azure DevOps into experimental extensions. These extensions helped address product gaps and fostered innovation, ultimately benefiting Azure DevOps customers via the public marketplace. The challenge Over time, as the original creat...

CommunityDevOpsAzure & Cloud
Nov 19, 2024
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Getting the most out of Azure DevOps and GitHub

Aaron Hallberg
Aaron Hallberg

Microsoft has two very successful DevSecOps products in the market – GitHub and Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps has a large enterprise customer base that loves the highly customizable enterprise-focused planning and tracking capabilities in Azure Boards, the robust continuous delivery capabilities in Azure Pipelines, the manual and exploratory testing c...

Azure & CloudDevOpsAdmin & Licensing
Nov 18, 2024
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Announcing the General Availability of Managed DevOps Pools (MDP) for Azure DevOps

Suraj Guptha Eliza Tarasila
Suraj,
Eliza

We are thrilled to announce that Managed DevOps Pools for Azure DevOps is now generally available! This milestone marks a significant advancement in our mission to improve developer productivity in the CI/CD loop, reduce your cloud bill for ES infra and to reduce the toil associated with creating and maintaining custom CI/CD infrastructure for your...

DevOpsAzure & CloudCI/CD
Oct 28, 2024
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No new Azure DevOps OAuth apps beginning April 2025

Angel Wong
Angel Wong

(Edit 03/26: Dates have been changed to April 2025.) Starting April 2025, we will no longer accept new registrations of Azure DevOps OAuth apps. This is the first step we’ll be taking towards our longer-term vision of sunsetting the Azure DevOps OAuth platform. Moving forward, we’ll be publicly advocating all developers that are building applicati...

Azure & CloudDevOps
Oct 24, 2024
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Using Entra profile information in Azure DevOps

Andrew Brenner
Andrew Brenner

We’re excited to announce the ability to use Entra profile information in Azure DevOps. This has been a long-standing feature request from the community (ex. profile, picture, email, and name). Beyond the convenience of configuring profile information in one place and ensuring the accuracy of personal information, using Entra profile information in...

Azure & Cloud
Oct 16, 2024
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Introducing Pull Request Annotation for CodeQL and Dependency Scanning in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps

Michael Omokoh
Michael Omokoh

In the world of software development, security is paramount. As developers, we strive to write clean, efficient, and most importantly, secure code. GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps has always been at the forefront of providing tools that make it easier to build and release high-quality software. Today, we’re excited to announce a new featu...

SecurityAzure & Cloud
Sep 27, 2024
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Azure Boards, September Update

Dan Hellem
Dan Hellem

September was a productive month for Azure Boards, and we’re excited to share some of the new features coming your way. Area and Iteration Level Fields Area and iteration level fields have been crucial for querying or displaying results based on their specific levels: (Root) Level 1 / Level 2 / Level 3 / etc. Previously limited to a few organiz...

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