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Oct 5, 2018
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Getting started with Universal Packages

Mitch Denny

At the end of last sprint we flipped the switch on a new feature for Azure Artifacts called Universal Packages. With Universal Packages teams can store artifacts that don’t neatly fit into the other kinds of package types that we support. A Universal Package is just a collection of files that you’ve uploaded to our service and labelled with a name and version.

Oct 1, 2018
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Analytics will be available on TFS 2019 RC1 – Want to help us test it?

Gregg Boer

Analytics is the new reporting platform for both Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Azure DevOps. Analytics will be available with TFS 2019 RC1, which should be available later this year. We are looking for TFS customers who are planning to install RC1 when its released and would be willing to participate in a test program for Analytics.

Sep 27, 2018
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Using AzureAD identities in Azure DevOps organizations backed by Microsoft Accounts

Justin Marks

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.

Sep 24, 2018
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Navigation Update for Azure DevOps

Aaron Bjork

Back in June of this year, we rolled out the first iteration of our new navigation model for Azure DevOps. We’ve spent the summer improving that experience based on the feedback many of you have provided. Thank you! Our next step is to move from the new model being a preview, to becoming the navigation for the product. In this post, I’ll walk through some of the key feedback we’ve addressed and lay out the schedule you can expect going forward.

Sep 24, 2018
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Azure DevOps Reporting – What reports do you want?

Gregg Boer

If you are using Azure DevOps – we want to hear what reporting metrics are important to you. We've authored a short survey to gather this data.

Sep 18, 2018
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Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 3 and Update 1.1 are available

Erin Dormier

Last week, we released both TFS 2018 Update 3 and TFS 2018 Update 1.1. Update 3 is a roll up of bug fixes on top of Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2. You can see a list of the bugs that were fixed in the release notes.

Sep 14, 2018
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Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.09.14

Edward Thomson

Wow, y'all: seven years ago today, at the BUILD conference, we announced the preview of what we called "Team Foundation Service". That service offering became Visual Studio Team Services. And on Monday, we announced the newest evolution of what that vision has become: Azure DevOps.

Sep 14, 2018
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Announcing new REST API’s for Process Customization

Dan Hellem

In the new 5.0 (preview) version we combined the two inherited REST API's under a single domain. Making it much easier to determine what REST API endpoints to use. What domain you need depends on the process model used by your projects.

Sep 13, 2018
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Introducing Search service authentication to make communications with TFS more secure

Subrahmanya Srinivas

Basic authorization is now enabled on the communication between the TFS and Search services to make it more secure.