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Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.03.30
Here are the top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. Top Stories Podcasts & Videos If you have feedback or would like to see a story included in next weeks round-up then please leave a comment below or use the #VSTS hashtag on Twitter
What’s new in VSTS Sprint 131 Update
The Sprint 131 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has rolled out to all accounts and includes several features that were prioritized and influenced by feedback over the last several months. The Work Items hub, which is now generally available, brings important work together into a new hub with several views for items you’re following, your activity, and, of course, items assigned to you. I showed this new hub to another team in Microsoft yesterday and they were eager to start using it since it enables them to drop some of the queries they often run. We also add virtual machine support to Azure Dev...
Deadline extended for connecting VSTS accounts to AzureAD
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 are changing our tactics and extending the deadline to the end of September. PLEASE NOTE: VSTS will continue to work the way it does today and current users will never lose access. The only restriction starting in October will be on the creation of new MSA users; existing us...
TFS 2018 Update 2 RC1
We have released Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2 RC1. Update 2 is the first "feature" update for TFS 2018 based on our updated release approach. Here are some key links: TFS 2018.2 RC1 Release Notes TFS 2018.2 RC1 Web Installer TFS 2018.2 RC1 ISO TFS 2018.2 RC1 Express Web Installer TFS 2018.2 RC1 Express ISO RC1 is a go-live release that is fully supported for installation in your production environment. We've tested and used it in our own environment in addition to having run it on VSTS. RC1 is available in all languages, but you may notice that some strings are still in English. We expect to have all th...
Deployment Groups is now generally available: sharing of targets and more…
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 updates, while ensuring high availability of your application throughout. You can also deploy to servers on-premises or virtual machines on Azure or any cloud, plus have end-to-end traceability of deployed artifact versions down to the server level. Agent-based deployment ...
Announcement: Publish markdown files from your git repository to VSTS Wiki
Now you can publish markdown files from a git repository to the VSTS Wiki. Developers often write SDK documents, product documentation, or README files explaining a product in a git repository. Such pages are often updated alongside code in the code repository. Git provides a friction free experience where code and docs can live on the same branch and are reviewed together in pull requests and are released together using the same build and release process. There are few issues with hosting such pages in code repositories: You can read about more use cases in this user voice. Solution No...
Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.03.23
Here are the top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. Top Stories Podcasts & Videos If you have feedback or would like to see a story included in next weeks round-up then please leave a comment below or use the #VSTS hashtag on Twitter
TFVC Windows Shell Extension for VSTS and TFS 2018
Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) users looking for a lightweight version control experience integrated into Windows File Explorer will be happy to see the latest release of the TFVC Windows Shell Extension. This tool provides convenient access to many TFVC commands right in the explorer context menu, and the latest release adds support for Team Foundation Server 2018 and VSTS. Formerly part of the TFS Power tools, the tool has been released as a standalone tool on the Visual Studio Marketplace.
Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.03.16
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES VIDEOS TIP: If you want to get your VSTS news in audio form then be sure to subscribe to RadioTFS . FEEDBACK What do you think? How could we do this series better? Here are some ways to connect with us: