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Aug 6, 2026
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Pull request annotations on work item cards

Dan Hellem

It's now easier to track development progress without leaving your Kanban board. Azure Boards now displays pull request annotations directly on work item cards, making it easy to see at a glance when work is actively moving through code review. With pull request status visible directly on the board, your team can quickly understand the state of ...

Azure & Cloud
Aug 5, 2026
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Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server is generally available

Dan Hellem

Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of the Azure DevOps MCP Server 🎉 The Azure DevOps MCP Server gives AI assistants secure, contextual access to your Azure DevOps projects so they can help you plan, build, and ship software more effectively. With the Azure DevOps remote MCP Server, you can get started without installing or h...

Azure & Cloud
Jun 9, 2026
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Copilot Code Reviews for Azure Repos

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Andrew

Over the last several years, we have encouraged customers to move their repositories from Azure Repos to GitHub to take advantage of the latest AI powered and agentic development experiences that GitHub is delivering. At the same time, we recognize that migrating repositories to GitHub can vary significantly in complexity depending on an organiz...

Azure & Cloud
Jun 8, 2026
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Enterprise Live Migrations: Moving from Azure DevOps Repo to GitHub with minimal disruption

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Bhuvan

Over the last several years, we’ve encouraged customers to move their repositories from Azure Repos to GitHub to take advantage of the latest AI-powered and agentic development experiences. For many enterprise teams, however, migrating at scale comes with real constraints. Traditional approaches can require extended downtime - sometimes days - whi...

Azure & CloudDevOps
Apr 21, 2026
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Azure DevOps MCP Server April Update

Dan Hellem

This update brings a set of improvements and changes across both local and remote Azure DevOps MCP Servers. Here’s a summary of what’s changed. Query work items with WIQL We’ve introduced a new tool that enables users to construct and run work item WIQL queries. For our remote MCP, to ensure reliability and performance, access to this tool is c...

Azure & Cloud
Apr 1, 2026
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Improving the Markdown Editor for Work Items

Dan Hellem

We introduced the Markdown editor in July 2025 to bring Markdown support to large text fields in work items. Since then, we’ve received valuable customer feedback highlighting challenges with the editing experience, particularly when switching in and out of edit mode. Many users found the current interaction model confusing and, at times, disrupti...

Azure & Cloud
Mar 19, 2026
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Remote MCP Server preview in Microsoft Foundry

Dan Hellem

Earlier this week we release the public preview for our Azure DevOps MCP Server. Today we are excited to let you know that the Azure DevOps MCP Server is now available to use in Microsoft Foundry. For those who are new to Foundry, Microsoft Foundry is a unified platform for building and managing AI powered applications and agents at scale. It brin...

Azure & Cloud
Mar 17, 2026
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Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server (public preview)

Dan Hellem

When we released the local Azure DevOps MCP Server, it gave customers a way to connect Azure DevOps data with tools like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code through GitHub Copilot Chat. The next step was to make this experience easier to get started with and to enable it for services that support only remote MCP servers. The Remote MCP Server is ...

Azure & Cloud
Feb 27, 2026
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Updates to Team Calendar extension

Dan Hellem

We are excited to release a new update to the Team Calendar extension. This update includes a series of visual refinements across the extension, introducing a more consistent design language, smoother transitions when expanding and collapsing sections, improved contrast for better readability, an updated color palette aligned with Azure DevOps, an...

Azure & Cloud
Feb 18, 2026
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TFVC Remove Existing Obsolete Policies ASAP

Dan Hellem

In April 2025, we announced the deprecation schedule for legacy TFVC check-in policies. This change was required due to limitations in how those policies were previously implemented and stored. The old policies have been marked as obsolete, and you can replace them by selecting the equivalent updated policy. We are currently in Phase II of this tr...

Azure & Cloud