{"id":42905,"date":"2018-04-27T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=42905"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:50:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:50:04","slug":"top-stories-from-the-vsts-community-2018-04-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/top-stories-from-the-vsts-community-2018-04-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Top stories from the VSTS community &#8211; 2018.04.27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics, listed in no specific order:<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOP STORIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/colinsalmcorner.com\/post\/tip-creating-task-groups-with-azure-service-endpoint-parameters\" target=\"_blank\">Tip: Creating Task Groups with Azure Service Endpoint Parameters<\/a><br><strong>Colin Dembovsky<\/strong> introduces the DRY practice &#8220;Don&#8217;t Repeat Yourself&#8221; with Release Management and Task Groups.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nfocussoftwaretesting.com\/benefits-of-agile-for-testers\" target=\"_blank\">Benefits of Agile for Testers<\/a><br><strong>Adam Bardell<\/strong> talks about Agile principles how the success of a release may be largely based on the effectiveness of the test role.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalmrangers\/2018\/04\/26\/vsts-gems-chain-related-builds\/\" target=\"_blank\">VSTS Gems- Chain related builds<\/a><br><strong>Shmulik Ahituv<\/strong> has another VSTS Gem. The ability to chain related builds together using build completion triggers &#8211; currently the #2 highest voted suggestion with 1,129 votes.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/devops\/2018\/04\/19\/release-flow-how-we-do-branching-on-the-vsts-team\/\" target=\"_blank\">How We Do Branching on the VSTS Team<\/a><br>A must read! <strong>Edward Thomson<\/strong> elaborates on how Microsoft does branching and how different teams are using different models.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/clip_image00119.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"123\" title=\"clip_image001\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"clip_image001\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/04\/clip_image001_thumb18.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.greglow.com\/2018\/04\/20\/devops-scripting-sql-server-objects-from-the-command-line\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scripting SQL Server objects and data from the command line<\/a><br><strong>Greg Low<\/strong> shows how you can script your SQL objects from the command line.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vsoservice\/?p=16725\" target=\"_blank\">Global VSTS CI\/CD outage due to service bus failure \u2013 13 April 2018<\/a><br><strong>Taylor Lafrinere<\/strong> shares another post mortem of a recent incident. Transparency is key!\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/premier_developer\/2018\/04\/21\/using-vsts-api-with-powershell-to-scaffold-team-projects\/\" target=\"_blank\">Using VSTS API with PowerShell to scaffold Team Projects<\/a><br><strong>Art Garcia<\/strong> walks you through the place to find the VSTS REST calls and how to get started with Projects and Teams.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/clip_image00217.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"103\" title=\"clip_image002\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"clip_image002\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/04\/clip_image002_thumb14.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> RADIOTFS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/radiotfs.com\/Show\/159\/CatchingupwithMartin#?t=1&amp;cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&amp;refsrc=email&amp;iid=597ad4c7400447f4b691a471cc93446a&amp;uid=236528963&amp;nid=244+276893704\" target=\"_blank\">159<\/a> \/\/ Catching up with Martin<br>In this episode <strong>Greg<\/strong> catches up with <strong>Martin<\/strong>, chatting about the new Microsoft, new leadership, new VSTS features, new TFS 2018 RC2 features [XAML Build&#8217;ers will be happy], Greg&#8217;s VSTS migration and the latest and greatest VSTS, TFS news, tips and tricks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/image389.png\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEOS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Blogs\/DevOps-Interviews\/How-Windows-Windows-Store-Xbox--Surface-moved-their-350gig-source-repo-into-Git-hosted-on-VSTS#c636600826158299856\" target=\"_blank\">How Windows, Windows Store, Xbox &amp; Surface moved their 350gig source repo into Git hosted on VSTS<\/a><br>In this video <strong>Donovan Brown <\/strong>interviews <strong>Tony Seeley<\/strong>, Group Program Manager who works in the Windows and Devices Group (WDG), Engineering Systems team, overseeing the group managing the source control system which is used by thousands of users working on code for an extensive portfolio of products including Xbox, Surface, Windows Store and of course the Windows operating system itself.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/image390.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" title=\"image\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/04\/image_thumb364.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/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>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, listed in no specific order: TOP STORIES Tip: Creating Task Groups with Azure Service Endpoint ParametersColin Dembovsky introduces the DRY practice &#8220;Don&#8217;t Repeat Yourself&#8221; with Release Management and Task Groups. Benefits of Agile for TestersAdam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics, listed in no specific order: TOP STORIES Tip: Creating Task Groups with Azure Service Endpoint ParametersColin Dembovsky introduces the DRY practice &#8220;Don&#8217;t Repeat Yourself&#8221; with Release Management and Task Groups. Benefits of Agile for TestersAdam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}