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From Manual Testing to AI-Generated Automation: Our Azure DevOps MCP + Playwright Success Story

In today’s fast-paced software development cycles, manual testing often becomes a significant bottleneck. Our team was facing a growing backlog of test cases that required repetitive manual execution—running the entire test suite every sprint. This consumed valuable time that could be better spent on exploratory testing and higher-value tasks. We set out to solve this […]
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25 Jul 2025

Azure Developer CLI: From Dev to Prod with One Click

This post walks through how to implement a “build once, deploy everywhere” pattern using Azure Developer CLI (azd) that provisions environment-specific infrastructure and promotes applications from dev to prod with the same build artifacts. You’ll learn how to use conditional Bicep deployment, environment variable injection, package preservation across environments, and automated CI/CD promotion from development […]
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22 Jul 2025

July Patches for Azure DevOps Server

Today we are releasing patches that impact the latest version of our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly encourage and recommend that all customers use the latest, most secure release of Azure DevOps Server. You can download the latest version of the product, Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 from the Azure DevOps Server download page. […]
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9 Jul 2025

Markdown Support Arrives for Work Items

After several months in private preview and many bug fixes along the way, we’re excited to announce that Markdown support in large text fields is now generally available! 🎉 🦄 How it works By default, all existing and new work items will continue using the HTML editor for large text fields. However, you now have […]
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8 Jul 2025

Removing Azure Resource Manager reliance on Azure DevOps sign-ins

Azure DevOps will no longer depend on the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) resource (https://management.azure.com) when you sign in or refresh Microsoft Entra access tokens. Previously, Azure DevOps required the ARM audience during sign-in and token refresh flows. This requirement meant administrators had to allow all Azure DevOps users to bypass ARM-based Conditional Access policies to […]
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26 Jun 2025

Azure DevOps MCP Server, Public Preview

A few weeks ago at BUILD, we announced the upcoming Azure DevOps MCP Server: 👉 Azure DevOps with GitHub Repositories – Your path to Agentic AI Today, we’re excited to share that the local Azure DevOps MCP Server is now available in public preview. This lets GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code […]
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18 Jun 2025

June Patches for Azure DevOps Server

Today we are releasing patches that impact the latest version of our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly encourage and recommend that all customers use the latest, most secure release of Azure DevOps Server. You can download the latest version of the product, Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 from the Azure DevOps Server download page. […]
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11 Jun 2025

Restricting PAT Creation in Azure DevOps Is Now in Preview

As organizations continue to strengthen their security posture, restricting usage of personal access tokens (PATs) has become a critical area of focus. With the latest public preview of the Restrict personal access token creation policy in Azure DevOps, Project Collection Administrators (PCAs) now have another powerful tool to reduce unnecessary PAT usage and enforce tighter […]
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6 Jun 2025

GitHub Secret Protection and GitHub Code Security for Azure DevOps

Following the changes to GitHub Advanced Security on GitHub, we’re launching the standalone security products of GitHub Secret Protection and GitHub Code Security for Azure DevOps today. You can bring the protection of Advanced Security to your enterprise with the flexibility to enable the right level of protection for your repositories. GitHub Secret Protection for […]
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2 Jun 2025

Azure DevOps with GitHub Repositories – Your path to Agentic AI

GitHub Copilot has evolved beyond a coding assistant in the IDE into an agentic teammate – providing actionable feedback on pull requests, fixing bugs and implementing new features, creating pull requests and responding to feedback, and much more. These new capabilities will transform every aspect of the software development lifecycle, as we are already seeing […]
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28 May 2025

One Pipeline to Rule Them All: Ensuring CodeQL Scanning Results and Dependency Scanning Results Go to the Intended Repository

“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings In the world of code scanning and dependency scanning, your pipeline is the One Ring—a single definition that can orchestrate scans across multiple repositories. […]
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21 May 2025

Introducing Azure DevOps ID Token Refresh and Terraform Task Version 5

We are excited to share some recent updates that improve the experience of using Workload identity federation (OpenID Connect) with Azure DevOps and Terraform on Microsoft Azure. Many working parts have come together to make this possible and we’ll share those here. We are also very pleased to announce version 5 of the Microsoft DevLabs […]
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2 May 2025

Our Favorite NEW Visual Studio Features of 2024

Last year, the Visual Studio team delivered many new developer-focused improvements and AI integrations, many of which came directly from your feedback on Developer Community. In this post, we highlight the team’s favorite features from 2024 that boost productivity, streamline workflows, and enhance your coding experience. Let’s dive in! Image Hover Preview: See your images […]
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17 Jan 2025

Create internal GitHub repos for your team

Visual Studio 2022 now includes support for creating internal repositories for GitHub organizations. This feature allows developers to work within their GitHub organization’s guidelines within the Visual Studio environment more effectively. Managing repositories involves configuring varying levels of visibility and permissions. Visual Studio 2022’s new feature aims to smooth this process by providing support for […]
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16 Dec 2024

Boost your Git confidence with the new file rename notification

Have you ever renamed a file in Solution Explorer and wondered if Git is tracking your changes correctly? You’re not alone. Many developers have found this process confusing and worry whether their changes are being properly staged in Git. But worry no more – there’s a solution! When you rename files in Solution Explorer, Visual […]
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12 Dec 2024

New Boards Hub Rollout Expectations

Although the process may seem slow, we are steadily progressing toward rolling out the New Boards Hub to all customers. Our plan is to deprecate the old Boards experience for all Azure DevOps service users by the end Q1 2025. The rollout is advancing on two fronts. First, we are setting the New Boards Hub […]
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12 Dec 2024

Microsoft DevLabs Extensions

The Microsoft DevLabs publisher was created as a hub for internal teams at Microsoft to channel their passion for Azure DevOps into experimental extensions. These extensions helped address product gaps and fostered innovation, ultimately benefiting Azure DevOps customers via the public marketplace. The challenge Over time, as the original creators of these extensions moved on […]
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4 Dec 2024

Introducing the Copy Git Permalink Feature in Visual Studio 17.12

We are excited to announce the release of the Copy Git Permalink feature in Visual Studio 17.12. This new functionality streamlines the process of sharing code references, enhancing collaboration and ensuring that critical context is preserved. Effortless Code Sharing If you’ve found yourself needing to share code snippets with colleagues, you know the challenges of […]
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3 Dec 2024

Getting the most out of Azure DevOps and GitHub

Microsoft has two very successful DevSecOps products in the market – GitHub and Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps has a large enterprise customer base that loves the highly customizable enterprise-focused planning and tracking capabilities in Azure Boards, the robust continuous delivery capabilities in Azure Pipelines, the manual and exploratory testing capabilities in Azure Test Plans, and […]
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19 Nov 2024

Announcing the General Availability of Managed DevOps Pools (MDP) for Azure DevOps

We are thrilled to announce that Managed DevOps Pools for Azure DevOps is now generally available! This milestone marks a significant advancement in our mission to improve developer productivity in the CI/CD loop, reduce your cloud bill for ES infra and to reduce the toil associated with creating and maintaining custom CI/CD infrastructure for your […]
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19 Nov 2024

November Patches for Azure DevOps Server

Today we are releasing patches that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly encourage and recommend that all customers use the latest, most secure release of Azure DevOps Server. You can download the latest version of the product, Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 from the Azure DevOps Server download page. The following versions of […]
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13 Nov 2024

No new Azure DevOps OAuth apps beginning February 2025

Starting February 3, 2025, we will no longer accept new registrations of Azure DevOps OAuth apps. This is the first step we’ll be taking towards our longer-term vision of sunsetting the Azure DevOps OAuth platform. Moving forward, we’ll be publicly advocating all developers that are building applications on top of Azure DevOps REST APIs to […]
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29 Oct 2024

Using Entra profile information in Azure DevOps

We’re excited to announce the ability to use Entra profile information in Azure DevOps. This has been a long-standing feature request from the community (ex. profile, picture, email, and name). Beyond the convenience of configuring profile information in one place and ensuring the accuracy of personal information, using Entra profile information in Azure DevOps provides […]
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25 Oct 2024

Introducing Pull Request Annotation for CodeQL and Dependency Scanning in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps

In the world of software development, security is paramount. As developers, we strive to write clean, efficient, and most importantly, secure code. GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps has always been at the forefront of providing tools that make it easier to build and release high-quality software. Today, we’re excited to announce a new feature […]
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17 Oct 2024

Deprecation of the macOS-12 Hosted Pipeline Image

Azure DevOps is starting the deprecation process for the macOS-12 (Monterey) hosted pilelines image. While the image is being deprecated, you may experience longer queue times during peak usage hours. Deprecation will begin on October 7 and the image will be fully unsupported by December 3. Pipeline jobs using the macOS-12 image label should be […]
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1 Oct 2024

Azure Boards, September Update

September was a productive month for Azure Boards, and we’re excited to share some of the new features coming your way. Area and Iteration Level Fields Area and iteration level fields have been crucial for querying or displaying results based on their specific levels: (Root) Level 1 / Level 2 / Level 3 / etc. […]
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27 Sep 2024

Introducing Object Limit Tracker in Azure DevOps

We’re excited to introduce the Object Limit Tracker in Azure DevOps! This new feature provides real-time visibility into resource usage for each organization and project directly within Azure DevOps. By offering insights into commonly asked limits, we enable users to manage resources more proactively and prevent potential issues.
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22 Aug 2024

New Boards Hub Rollout Update

Back in March, we shared an update on our initiative to make the New Boards Hub the default experience for all organizations. However, that rollout was delayed as we shifted priorities for several months. Today, we’re excited to announce that the rollout of the New Boards Hub is back on track.
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21 Aug 2024

New Azure DevOps Server Roadmap

While we recommend our hosted service for most customers due to its scalability and flexibility, we understand the importance of the on-premises version for many of our customers. Therefore, we remain committed to providing support and improvement for both versions.

Previously,
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20 Aug 2024

New git tooling features

Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 includes fantastic updates to everyone working with Git. They bring the richness of both GitHub and Azure DevOps into Visual Studio and part of your natural workflow. This greatly simplifies your inner loop, making you even more productive than before.
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19 Aug 2024

Announcing Public Preview of Managed DevOps Pools (MDP) for Azure DevOps

Engineering teams ideally want to spend all their time writing code to create applications and services for their users! In reality, many end up spending a significant portion of their time on other tasks, such as maintaining DevOps infrastructure.

In Azure DevOps,
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3 Aug 2024

Update on Azure Boards + GitHub Integration

It’s been a few months since our last update on the initiative to enhance the integration between Azure Boards and GitHub. We’re excited to share that many new features have been completed and are in the process of being rolled out.
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26 Jul 2024

Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 RTW now available

7/19 Update: The issue affecting Boards Team Configuration was successfully resolved with the Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 RTW release. We are still investigating the issue with loading Teams names and will continue to share updates in this blog.

7/16 Update: We are currently investigating issues with loading Boards Team Configuration and loading Teams names.
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10 Jul 2024

June patches for Azure DevOps Server

This month, we are releasing fixes that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server.

The following version of the product has been patched.

Azure DevOps Server 2022.1 Patch 4

If you have Azure DevOps Server 2022.1, you should install Azure DevOps Server 2022.1 Patch 4.
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12 Jun 2024

Test & Feedback Extension in Manifest V3

We are excited to announce a new update to the Azure DevOps Test and Feedback extension! This update brings essential implementation changes, upgrading from manifest version 2 to version 3. Following Google’s announcement of their Manifest V2 deprecation schedule, we have been actively working on our implementation of Manifest V3.
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10 Jun 2024

May patches for Azure DevOps Server

This month, we are releasing fixes that impact our self-hosted product, Azure DevOps Server.

The following version of the product has been patched.

Azure DevOps Server 2019.1.2 Patch 9

If you have Azure DevOps Server 2019.1.2, you should install Azure DevOps Server 2019.1.2 Patch 9.
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29 May 2024

Azure DevOps Server 2022 Update 2 RC now available

Today we’re thrilled to announce the release candidate (RC) of Azure DevOps Server 2022.2!

This release includes new features that have been previously released in our hosted version of the product. Here are a few of the highlights:
Limits for area and iteration paths

Bypass approvals and checks in pipelines

Improved YAML validation

Azure Artifacts support for Cargo Crates

New Dashboard directory experience

Quick Copy and import for Test Plan or Suite ID
There are more features with this release,
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8 May 2024