{"id":38835,"date":"2017-12-22T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=38835"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:50:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:50:25","slug":"top-stories-from-the-vsts-community-2017-12-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/top-stories-from-the-vsts-community-2017-12-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Top stories from the VSTS community &#8211; 2017.12.22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOP STORIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clemensreijnen.nl\/post\/2017\/12\/15\/How-to-setup-a-VSTS-pipelines-for-Azure-Service-Fabric-and-its-containing-services\" target=\"_blank\">How to setup a VSTS pipelines for Azure Service Fabric and its containing services<\/a> &#8211; Clemens Reijnen<br>Sven wrote a detailed How To covering the creating of a release pipelines for a secure Azure Service Fabric cluster and the containing services, based on a project we did together. \n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benday.com\/2017\/12\/15\/how-to-make-git-work-with-self-signed-ssl-certificates-on-tfs2018\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to Make Git Work with Self-Signed SSL Certificates on TFS2018<\/a> &#8211; Ben Day<br>When you install Team Foundation Server 2018 (TFS2018), the installer gives you the option to configure TFS to use HTTPS with a self-signed SSL certificate. This is a good thing.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericksegaar.com\/2017\/11\/27\/using-typescript-for-your-vsts-extension-walk-trough\/\" target=\"_blank\">Using TypeScript for your VSTS extension walk through<\/a> &#8211; Erick Segaar<br>One of my targets of this year was to start writing TypeScript and experience the usability compared to my experience writing JavaScript over 20 years ago.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codewrecks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/19\/configure-git-repository-for-automatic-pull-rebase\" target=\"_blank\">Configure Git repository for automatic pull \u2013rebase<\/a> &#8211; Ricci Gian Maria<br>I\u2019m not a great fan of Git Graphical User Interfaces, I use mainly command line, but I needed to admit that, for novice user, the ability to use a GUI is something that can ease the pain of transition to a new tool. \n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mattvsts.blogspot.com\/2017\/12\/the-impact-of-upgrade-to-team.html\" target=\"_blank\">The impact of an upgrade to Team Foundation Server 2018<\/a> &#8211; Matteo Emili<br>Usually upgrading Team Foundation Server is smooth and easy, but there is an exception this time around. It is not strictly related to TFS per-se, instead the issue lies with the new deprecations introduced with version 2018.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/premier_developer\/2017\/12\/08\/tfs-2017-sometimes-we-must-look-back-before-we-can-move-forward-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">TFS 2017 \u2013 Sometimes we must look back before we can move forward!<\/a> \u2013 Part 1 &#8211; Chuck Goodspeed<br>This is the first of a series of posts, focusing on the challenges encountered in migrating\/evolving TFS 2005\/2008\/2010 installations a full decade forward into TFS 2017 and\/or VSTS. Experiences and situations encountered at multiple customer installations provide real-life NOT \u201cout-of-the-box experiences\u201d, [! OOB} which can be built upon to avoid common pitfalls.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/the.agilesql.club\/blogs\/Ed-Elliott\/2017-12-18\/Using-Azure-Stack-To-Understand-Azure-ARM-Internals\" target=\"_blank\">Azure ARM template function internals<\/a> &#8211; Ed Elliott <br>I have been working with azure arm functions for quite a while and they are exceptionally useful but also quite a pain to work with, visualizing what it is that the functions will resolve to is often hard.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mattvsts.blogspot.ca\/2017\/12\/help-my-tfs-automatically-redirects.html\" target=\"_blank\">Help! My TFS automatically redirects HTTPS to HTTP!<\/a> &#8211; Matteo Emili <br>If you are deploying HTTPS to TFS and you want to keep HTTP for a while, you might experience a strange behaviour: despite following the documentation, every time you browse to your TFS Web Access with HTTPS you are redirected to HTTP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p><strong> HOLIDAYS <\/strong><em>&#8211; We wish you all a safe and restful holiday with your friends and family!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span><br><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>TIP<\/strong>: If you want to get your VSTS news in audio form then be sure to subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotfs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">RadioTFS<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><strong>FEEDBACK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What do you think? How could we do this series better?<br> Here are some ways to connect with us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add a comment below<\/li>\n<li>Use the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/vsts\" target=\"_blank\">#VSTS<\/a> hashtag if you have articles you would like to see included<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. 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