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Removing out-of-support components from your Visual Studio installations

November 29, 2022 Nov 29, 2022 11/29/22
Christine Ruana
Visual Studio is a rich IDE that provides an abundant collection of tools and functionality for developers to use in every stage of software development. As we all know, technologies change over time, some faster than others; consequently, certain components that are initially included with Visual Studio may go out of support faster than the ...

Enable Group Policy Settings with Visual Studio Administrative Templates (ADMX)

November 17, 2022 Nov 17, 2022 11/17/22
authorsEdward Skrod, Christine Ruana
IT Administrators often want to control, via group policy, certain aspects of Visual Studio behavior to achieve consistency, compliance, and compatibility across their organizations. One challenge has been that there was no easy way to discover what global policies exist for Visual Studio. Because there was no centralized repository that ...

Deploy Visual Studio updates to devices enrolled in Windows Update for Business

November 9, 2022 Nov 9, 2022 11/9/22
Christine Ruana
Starting in November 2022, IT Administrators can now deploy Visual Studio administrator security updates throughout their organization to cloud connected devices that are configured to use Windows Update for Business (WUfB) and are managed by mobile device management solutions such as Microsoft Endpoint Manager (also known as Intune). This ...