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Dec 12, 2025
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Retirement of Global Personal Access Tokens in Azure DevOps

Angel Wong

In the new year, we’ll be retiring the Global Personal Access Token (PAT) type in the Azure DevOps Services product. No changes will be made to global PATs in the Azure DevOps Server product. Global PATs allow users to authenticate across all accessible organizations. While this can feel convenient, a single credential with broad reach creates a c...

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Jan 6, 2025
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Reducing personal access token (PAT) usage across Azure DevOps

Angel Wong

In the new year, we’ll be making moves towards strengthening Microsoft and our customers' security posture in regards to the usage and creation of personal access tokens (PATs). If you’ve been following this blog, you may have noticed we’ve been distancing away from PATs as the recommended authentication method for Azure DevOps APIs by offering mo...

Azure & CloudSecurity