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VSTS SSH on Azure’s Global Network

October 23, 2017 Oct 23, 2017 10/23/17
Kayla Ngan (MSFT)
Over the past few months, we've been moving SSH for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) onto Azure's global network. As part of the move, we’re asking our SSH users to update their remotes to new SSH URLs. We have rolled out the new URLs to all accounts, and will be maintaining support for the old URLs though December 1, 2017. We recognize ...

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...

Building and Deploying a Java Application to Oracle WebLogic Server Running in Azure VM with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services

June 6, 2017 Jun 6, 2017 06/6/17
Emin Askerov
If you are interested in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) platform and Java development, maybe you know that VSTS has everything you need to organize CI/CD pipeline for your Java application development. Visual Studio ALM Blog has a lot of useful and helpful resources describing how to build and deploy your Java application and ...

New Release Definition Editor in Team Services

May 26, 2017 May 26, 2017 05/26/17
Saumya Venkataraman [MSFT]
Have you ever struggled to create a mental model of how the deployments to your environments would progress? We are introducing the pipeline view for your release definitions that will show how your deployments flow. Approvals, environment and deployment settings are now in-context and easily configurable. The new release definition editor ...

Cloud Solution Provider – Purchase from Visual Studio Marketplace Roadmap

May 9, 2017 May 9, 2017 05/9/17
Rajesh Ramamurthy (MSFT)
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 ...

Setup continuous deployment to Azure Government using Visual Studio Team Services

April 30, 2017 Apr 30, 2017 04/30/17
Shashank Bansal
Azure Government clouds provide private and semi-isolated locations for specific Government or other services, separate from the normal Azure services. Highest levels of privacy have been adopted for these clouds, including restricted data access policies. Azure Government clouds require unique Azure endpoints to manage the services...