Azure DevOps - Scrum Bug

Azure DevOps 2020 and 2019 (and 2018) patch for log4j vulnerability

Azure DevOps can be configured with advanced Code Search. That feature relies on Elastic Search. Depending on the age of your server, JVM version and Elastic Search version this may result in your setup being vulnerable to CVE-2021-44228.

Visual Studio 2022

Adding Visual Studio 2022 to Azure DevOps Server 2020

Visual Studio 2022 is out! But Azure DevOps Server hasn't had a release to support it yet. This means that in Azure Pipelines it won't detect your freshly installed copy of Visual Studio 2022.

Azure DevOps

"Fixing" massive parallel builds on Azure Pipelines with TFVC

Last weekend I helped migrate a client from Team Foundation Server 2017 to Azure DevOps in the cloud. One of the many reasons to migrate was the ability to leverage the hosted pool to do builds and not having to maintain build servers.

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Azure DevOps Pipelines

Renaming an Azure Pipeline task in an existing Azure DevOps extension

I have many Azure DevOps Extensions. Some recent, but also tasks dating back to 2015 when the extensibility model for build tasks forst appeared. Over time much has changed in Azure Pipeline Land...

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Azure DevOps

Accessing Azure DevOps APIs with large volumes of data

Most REST APIs exposed by Azure DevOps are limited in the amount of data they will return. You can choose to override the default number by passing a $top=### query string parameter. Azure DevOps will try to honor this request, but I've seen it refuse and return a lower number anyway.

azure-repos

Rename your master branch in Azure Repos

Renaming your master branch in Azure Repos could be as simple as a few clicks. But if you have complex policies or permissions in place, it may be a little more work. To rename your master branch you have to create a new branch and then delete the old one:

git

Rename your master branch to something better

I just went through my GitHub repositories to rid them of the master branches. It was a relatively simple process that took me about an hour or 2 for all my repositories. Scott Hanselman explains the base process. It's a simple set of steps to create a new branch with

azure-artifacts

Create an Organization level feed in Azure Artifacts

A while ago the Azure DevOps team has removed the option to create "Organization level feeds" in Azure Artifacts. This move matches many previous efforts to isolate "projects" in Azure DevOps to make things less confusing and easier to migrate.

Azure DevOps Pipelines

What to do when your build hangs on the Hosted Pool...

When your build freezes and you can't remote into the agent... You're basically blinded...

Azure DevOps Pipelines

Solving TFVC error TF14067 and Azure Pipelines

When this happens you'll see the following cryptic error message that mentions: A path you are absolutely certain exists; A workspace name that was created minutes before when the build agent initialized; TF14067.

Azure DevOps

Configuring standard policies for all repositories in Azure Repos

By default you can only configure policies on specific branches in Azure Repos. If you're using a strict naming pattern for your branches (Release Flow or GitHub Flow), you may want to set a policy for all future Release Branches, or all Feature branches.

git

Setting default repository permissions on your Azure DevOps Organization

There is no UI to set the security at the Organization level. This is fine if you're happy with the default security settings in Azure DevOps, but if you want certain settings to apply to all projects, then it's sometimes useful to set the permissions at the Organization level.

Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC)

Workspace management tips for TFVC

Workspaces are maybe the least understood feature in TFVC (Team Foundation Version Control). They're a great way to isolate different sets of files and changes from TFVC repositories.

Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps Extension Tasks 1.2.3x

It's been a while since I last blogged about the Azure DevOps Extension Tasks. Here are the things that have changed since the last update: Added support for publishing Visual Studio extensions.Support for versioning localized Azure Pipeline tasksSupport for executing under Node 10Fixed more promise issuesRenamed Visual Studio Team

git

Configure Visual Studio to use a different Git Credential Manager for Windows

Visual Studio ships with the Git credential Manager for Windows (GCMW) as part of its Team Explorer feature. This nifty little helper allows you to authenticate to Azure Repos among other git providers using your normal username and password and optional 2FA and it will handle the Personal Access Token

Azure DevOps

Connect any version of Visual Studio to Azure DevOps or Azure DevOps Server

Visual Studio has been around for a long time and there are still people developing in Visual Basic 6 or Visual Studio 2008. Even if you're using a more recent IDE, you could need one or more hotfixes and/or service packs.

Azure DevOps

Staged execution of tests in Azure DevOps Pipelines

When running Unit Tests in your build system, you may want to first run the most important suite, the one that should never fail, the ones that are currently being changed, finally the regression suite that may be slower to execute.

Azure DevOps Pipelines

VSTS Build & Release to Azure DevOps Pipelines tasks

Out with the old, in with the new! With the rename of Visual Studio Team Services Build and Release Management to Azure DevOps Pipelines all of the underlying libraries are being renamed too. In order to stay up to date and receive the latest updates you'll need to make a

Azure DevOps

Tasks and Release Gates on RadioTFS

In this episode of RadioTFS we spoke about the Global DevOps Bootcamp, Azure Pipelines and more specifically Release Gates and setting up a pipeline for your own Azure DevOps Extensions and some other recent blog posts.

Azure DevOps

Pipeline extension scoped to a specific TFS or Agent version

In The Netherlands more and more cities are creating an artificial wall around the city centers for older cars, certain fuel types or lorries. This is happening elsewhere in Europe as well. A similar things needs to happen in the Azure DevOps marketplace now that the number of supported target

Azure DevOps

Fail your builds when tests are skipped in Azure DevOps Pipelines

When the Visual Studio Test Task in Azure DevOps Pipelines fails to find any tests it logs a warning and happily succeeds. It has been a regular request on the MVP community to do something about that and to ensure that builds fail when no tests have executed. Since test

Azure DevOps

What domains are used by your Azure DevOps account?

Almost every corporate client asks us this question at some point: Which domains and IP addresses are used by Azure DevOps (formerly Visual Studio Team Services). And given that it's a cloud service, it's not an easy question to answer. The nature of the cloud, it's ability to scale, fail

Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps Extension Tasks 1.1.75

I'm happy to announce that version 1.1.75 of the Azure DevOps Extension Tasks is rolling out to the Visual Studio Marketplace. The last few releases have added a couple of significant features that I'd like to quickly highlight in this post.

Quality Code

Hard lessons in asynchronous JavaScript code

Last Friday I received a bug report for one of the extension I maintain. It took a while to first reproduce the case and then to figure out what was happening exactly. I found that my assumption about the execution order didn't match reality and that I was fighting a race condition.

Ghost

Continuous Delivery of customized Ghost themes using VSTS

In order to migrate my Ghost blog I needed to customize the default theme to support some of the features I'm relying on: - Disqus comments - Google Analytics - Integrating Google+ comments. To be able to quickly integrate updates I'm maintaining a fork of the Casper theme with my changes.