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Measuring Concurrent Jobs Over Time

Premier DeveloperJuly 29, 2020Jul 29, 202007/29/20

If you are looking to move your Azure DevOps Server or TFS implementation to Azure DevOps Services, you will find that the licensing and pricing around concurrent jobs has changed.

5 Super Useful Azure DevOps Extensions

Premier DeveloperJune 24, 2020Jun 24, 202006/24/20

Thanks in part to Microsoft's recent embrace of open source principals there is a large marketplace of community driven extensions available.

CI/CD with SharePoint Framework (SPFx)

Premier DeveloperJune 8, 2020Jun 8, 202006/8/20

In this post, App Dev Manager Dhaval Shah shows how to get started with CI/CD for SharePoint Framework (SPFx).

The Importance of Quality Assurance in the Development Life Cycle

Premier DeveloperJune 6, 2020Jun 6, 202006/6/20

Whether it's a software lab or an in-house department that creates its own applications, its reputation can be made or destroyed whenever a product is launched. Therefore, the concern with software quality becomes increasingly essential for any company that wants to stand out in the market.

Upgrading to the New Work Item Form in Azure DevOps

Premier DeveloperMay 31, 2020May 31, 202005/31/20

This blog post will highlight a case from the field to shed some light on what changes are made to the work item form, also known as the 'Best-effort transformation'. We'll walkthrough a case from the field where the custom work item was very different after upgrade.

Power Apps Build Tools for Azure DevOps

Premier DeveloperMay 30, 2020May 30, 202005/30/20

Given the dire need expressed by many of our enterprise customers for a complete ALM and DevOps support in to the Microsoft Power Platform I felt like writing this blog to give a very quick high-level overview of the tool and its capabilities.

Simplified Automated QA Testing on Azure DevOps

Premier DeveloperMay 29, 2020May 29, 202005/29/20

Setting up automated testing can be complex, but I wanted to build out an automated testing system that would be simple to understand and implement, yet cover most of the basic needs of test automation.

Approach for Merging Dynamics CRM Solutions with DevOps implementations.

Premier DeveloperMay 28, 2020May 28, 202005/28/20

How do I merge solutions in CRM? How do I perform feature-based deployment in Dynamics CRM? These are a few frequently asked questions when I am presenting DevOps for CRM talks or asked about my post on “Continuous Integration, Deployment and Test Automation for Dynamics CRM.

Azure DevOps setting up Repository permissions

Premier DeveloperMay 15, 2020May 15, 202005/15/20

As your organization grows, you will start to have many repositories inside of your Azure DevOps projects. Most organizations allow developers to browse and contribute to any repository, and put policies on pull requests for specific branches to protect them.

3 Tips for Adding Security to CI/CD Pipelines

Premier DeveloperMay 4, 2020May 4, 202005/4/20

When working with customers that are just starting their journey of converting to CI/CD pipelines within Azure DevOps, the initial focus is making sure their current manual build and release processes are automated. Can our pipeline do more? How do we build security steps into the process?

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