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We are excited to announce that release gates are now generally available to all VSTS users and accounts so everyone can now add progressive exposure to their continuous delivery pipelines. What are release gates If you haven’t tried them yet,  Release gates enable data-driven approvals for phased deployments with VSTS based on monitoring of dep...

Since we announced Azure DevOps Projects at the Connect conference late last year, we've been hard at work to make it as easy as possible to get set up with a fully functioning DevOps pipeline for your team in a few short steps – regardless of what platform you build your applications in and which features you want to use in Azure. We have also bee...

One of the favorite parts of my job is curating a web site with the stories of how we work. Those experience reports and more of our guidance are now  consolidated at https://aka.ms/devops. In addition to our own stories, this center offers content to help your team learn DevOps practices, Git (including Git at scale), and Agile. There's also a ...

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 will ev...

We are excited to announce that Deployment Groups is out of preview and is now generally available. Deployment Groups is a robust out-of-the-box multi-machine deployment feature of Release Management in VSTS/TFS.  What are Deployment Groups? With Deployment Groups, you can orchestrate deployments across multiple servers and perform rolling update...

We often get asked how to do CI/CD for IoT apps using Win10 IoT Core. If you’ve been considering or using Win10 IoT Core, then read on. The Visual Studio Test Platform that ships with Visual Studio 15.6 RTW now supports Testing on Win10 IoT Core. Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are key practices in DevOps. Integrations ar...

Introduction MSTest V2 v1.3.0 Beta2 now supports in-assembly parallel execution of tests - the top most requested/commented issue on the testfx repo. The feature can dramatically reduce the total time taken to execute a suite of tests. To get started, install the framework and adapter from NuGet. If you are already using MSTest V2, then upgrade to...

The January 2018 updates are rolling out this week and should complete by the end of the day Friday January 19, 2018 GitHub Release #1801 Visual Studio 2017 on Windows Server 2016 Linux

Last year we released Deployment Groups in Public Preview during the May 2017 timeframe, which enabled customers to deploy software to their IaaS machines.  One of the big pieces of feedback we received was that this only partially addressed the scenario of customers sharing their IaaS machines (deployment targets) across multiple applications. For...

In the previous blog post on How to perform Lab management operations in Build and Release, we explained about performing Build-Deploy-Test scenarios on your SCVMM environments using our TFS/VSTS SCVMM extension. This post focuses on self service creation of isolated virtual networks using SCVMM and VSTS/TFS Build & Release.  Network Virtuali...