{"id":41125,"date":"2018-03-09T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=41125"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:50:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:50:13","slug":"top-stories-from-the-vsts-community-2017-03-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/top-stories-from-the-vsts-community-2017-03-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Top stories from the VSTS community\u20132018.03.09"},"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=\"https:\/\/blog.devmatter.com\/change-image-size-in-vsts-wiki\/\" target=\"_blank\">Change image size in VSTS wiki<\/a> &#8211; Jeff Bramwell<br>If you\u2019ve been making use of the Wiki feature within VSTS then you already know how useful it is for providing documentation, notes, etc. in a centralized location for your VSTS projects. If you haven\u2019t tried the Wiki feature out yet, you really should!\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/the.agilesql.club\/blogs\/Ed-Elliott\/2018-05-03\/VSS-Extensions-Mixing-Vss-Require-With-Import-Require\" target=\"_blank\">VSTS extensions, mixing VSS.require and import \u2026 Require<\/a> &#8211; Ed Elliott<br>I have been starting to write more and more typescript lately and quite enjoying it. I have also been writing a few VSTS extensions and using typescript to write VSTS extensions seems to be working quite nicely. \n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/colinsalmcorner.com\/post\/using-chrome-to-solve-identity-hell\" target=\"_blank\">Using Chrome to Solve Identity Hell<\/a> &#8211; Colin Dembovsky<br>This week at MVP summit, I showed some of my colleagues a trick that I use to manage identity hell.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wouterdekort.com\/2018\/02\/27\/build-your-own-hosted-vsts-agent-cloud-part-2-deploy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Build your own Hosted VSTS Agent Cloud: Part 2 &#8211; Deploy<\/a> &#8211; Wouter de Kort<br>In this blog post I\u2019ll show you how to script a build and deployment based on your custom image and how to deploy the VSTS agent to it.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wouterdekort.com\/2018\/03\/05\/build-hosted-vsts-agent-cloud-part-3-automate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Build your own Hosted VSTS Agent Cloud: Part 3 \u2013 Automate<\/a> &#8211; Wouter de Kort<br>In this post, I\u2019ll tie everything together and show you the Git repositories and Build and Release definitions I use to automate my Agent Pool.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vsoservice\/?p=16295\" target=\"_blank\">Updated and Completed Postmortem: Performance Issues and failures in VSTS West Europe \u2013 7 February 2018<\/a> &#8211; Taylor Lafrinere<br>A week ago we posted an incomplete postmortem and are now following up with the completed version. If you want the full story of how we progressed through this incident, start by reading that. This postmortem will cover the full root cause analysis but it won\u2019t rehash the first part of the investigation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/git-for-windows\/git\/blob\/master\/CONTRIBUTING.md\" target=\"_blank\">How to Contribute to Git for Windows<\/a> \u2013 Derrick Stolee<br>I thought it would be useful for others if we published this guide as documentation for setting up a development environment for Git on Windows and contributing those changes back upstream.<br><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"28\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"Microsoft (heart) Git\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/MicrosoftHeartGit-300x43.png\" border=\"0\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> (A FEW) SUMMIT TWEETS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VSTS\/status\/971861312698425344\" target=\"_blank\">DevOps is People, Process, Products. But mostly it\u2019s people.<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/clip_image0011.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"204\" height=\"125\" title=\"clip_image001\" alt=\"clip_image001\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/clip_image001_thumb1.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VSTS\/status\/971557187217645568\" target=\"_blank\">Great Mini-summit for some of the awesome @gdevopsbc organizers &#8211; be there June 16<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/clip_image00210.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"204\" height=\"154\" title=\"clip_image002\" alt=\"clip_image002\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/clip_image002_thumb9.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VSTS\/status\/970406169033416704\" target=\"_blank\">Today a group of us are sharing together in a MVP2MVP precon day.<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/clip_image0031.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"204\" height=\"154\" title=\"clip_image003\" alt=\"clip_image003\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/clip_image003_thumb1.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Miiitch\/status\/970458153505636352\" target=\"_blank\">Alm Rangers talking about feature flags on VSTS extensions with @LaunchDarkly<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/clip_image0047.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"204\" height=\"154\" title=\"clip_image004\" alt=\"clip_image004\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/clip_image004_thumb6.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnthonyBorton\/status\/971883617801535488\" target=\"_blank\">Are you in Brisbane and interested in DevOps on the Microsoft stack?<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/clip_image0051.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"204\" height=\"123\" title=\"clip_image005\" alt=\"clip_image005\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/clip_image005_thumb1.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/image103.png\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEOS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchannel9.msdn.com%2FShows%2FDevOps-Lab%2FDeploying-Database-changes-alongside-your-code-with-SSDT-projects-and-VSTS&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cwillys%40microsoft.com%7Cc865dccf16e1408b454908d580998ac0%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636556319310037636%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwifQ%3D%3D%7C-1&amp;sdata=9uLf7E8qtHV054VQSujLWs1Pl7W047DRjujBiAKXKQc%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\">DevOps Lab new episode: Deploying Database changes alongside your code with SSDT projects and VSTS<\/a> &#8211; Damian Brady and Abel Wang<br>Damian is joined by Abel Wang to show us one way of tracking and deploying database changes alongside your code. The SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) project type in Visual Studio allows you to keep an up to date version of your code in source control. Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) natively supports deploying any changes to an SSDT project to your SQL Server instance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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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