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Introducing Town Halls in Microsoft Teams and Retiring Microsoft Teams Live Events

As teams are now more globally dispersed, virtual events have remained a constant to connect and bring people together regardless of where they are, while doing so at a lower cost and giving attendees flexibility, accessibility, and the ability to enga...

7 Oct 2023

Announcing general availability of the new Microsoft Teams app for Windows and Mac

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on October 5, 2023, and updated on October 31, 2023, to reflect the schedule for the update from classic Teams to new Teams.
October 31, 2023: After March 31, 2024, any classic Teams users that haven...

6 Oct 2023

Announcing more seamless collaboration in Microsoft Teams for multi-tenant organizations

Today, we’ve started rolling out new features tailored to multi-tenant organizations in the new Microsoft Teams desktop app for Windows. These features will be enabled when admins have configured a multi-tenant organization (MTO) group in the Microsoft...

6 Oct 2023

Enable the new Microsoft Teams for your organization today!

Today, we announced the general availability of the new Microsoft Teams application for Windows and Mac including availability for our education customers. We have also commenced public preview for our government cloud and Virtual Desktop Infrastructur...

5 Oct 2023

How Microsoft Empowers Developers with Disabilities: Celebrating NDEAM

October is National Disabled Employee Awareness Month, or NDEAM, a time to celebrate the contributions of workers with disabilities and raise awareness about the value of diverse and inclusive workforces across the globe. At Microsoft, we are committed to empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more,
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5 Oct 2023

Team Work Item Automation Rules (Private Preview)

Customers have been requesting to automate state transitions for a while. Take this request from 2018:

“When a User Story contains several child tasks, often developers update the child tasks but not the overall state of the User Story. It would be great to automatically update the state of the User Story according to the state of the child tasks.
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3 Oct 2023

Microsoft Learn: Four key features to help expand your knowledge and advance your career

As a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), I can say from experience that if you want to improve your skills, expand your knowledge, and advance your career, Microsoft Learn can be an essential resource for...

29 Sep 2023

New Azure DevOps scopes now available for Microsoft Identity OAuth delegated flow apps

We have added new Azure DevOps scopes for delegated OAuth apps on the Microsoft Identity platform, also colloquially known as Azure Active Directory OAuth apps. These new scopes will enable app developers to announce specifically which permissions they are hoping to request from the user in order to perform app duties.
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28 Sep 2023

Now Streaming: The Visual Studio ‘Tea & Technology’ Miniseries

2023 Visual Studio Miniseries:

Tea & Technology

The Visual Studio team is full of stories and insights, and we knew it was time to share them. So, we picked up our cameras and went on a special tour of Microsoft’s iconic Redmond Campus.
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27 Sep 2023

Managed identity and service principal support for Azure DevOps now in General Availability (GA)

After announcing the release of Managed Identity and Service Principal support in public preview last March, we were overcome by the positive response many of you had. We’re grateful to those who have taken the time to implement a managed identity within your apps and tools.
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27 Sep 2023

New Boards Hub Rollout Update

In July, we provided an overview on the steps for New Boards hub to go GA. In this blog post, we wanted to provide a short update on where things are at and what you can expect over the next couple of months.
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26 Sep 2023

A unit of profiling makes the allocations go away

In Visual Studio 17.8 Preview 2 we have updated unit test profiling, allowing you to use any of the available tools in the performance profiler – not just the instrumentation tool. With this change, it’s easy to quickly profile small units of work in isolation,
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25 Sep 2023

Microsoft Learn: Updates to our training and certification portfolio

As an IT pro, you know that staying ahead of the curve in today’s rapidly changing tech environment is critical. Your skills are key to your success—and the success of your team. Microsoft Learn has the tools, resources, and opportunities to help ...

22 Sep 2023

New React TypeScript SPA Templates and More

We have made the latest React TypeScript SPA Templates available in our latest preview. If you are developing React TypeScript Web application with ASP.NET as backend in Visual Studio, go ahead and try the new template! All the Visual Studio React and Vue templates using the JavaScript SDK are now using Vite,
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22 Sep 2023

How to transform work with plugins for Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI apps

With Microsoft 365 Copilot, people now have access to a next-gen AI assistant that can alleviate digital debt while boosting productivity, unleashing creativity, and freeing up time for more high-value work. At Build 2023, we announced the ability for ...

21 Sep 2023

IntelliTest simplifies writing and maintaining unit tests

Writing a suite of unit tests that exhaustively exercise and validate the logic of the code is not easy. It can even be considered too expensive to do at all. Fortunately, IntelliTest addresses both concerns: it helps you achieve high code coverage at a fraction of the cost,
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21 Sep 2023

Now Generally Available: GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps is ready for you to use

We’re excited to announce that GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps is now generally available and is ready for you to use in your own Azure DevOps repos! You can now enable code, secret, and dependency scanning within Azure Repos and take advantage of the new product updates.
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20 Sep 2023

Deploy frontline dynamic teams is now available in public preview

Customers who have successfully deploy Teams to their frontline workers follow a consistent pattern. They create a team for each frontline location and a channel for each department at that location.
This consistent structure enables local collaboratio...

20 Sep 2023

Introducing Azure DevOps Server 2022 Update 1 RC1

Today we’re very excited to announce the first release candidate (RC1) of Azure DevOps Server 2022.1!

With this release, we’ve added many new features that you’ve been asking for. Here are a few of the highlights:
Last Accessed column on Delivery Plans page

Visualize all dependencies on Delivery Plans

New PAT Scope for managing pipeline authorization and approvals and checks

New user interface for upstream package search

Show Parent in Query Results Widget
There are many more features with this release,
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20 Sep 2023

Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 2 has arrived!

We hope everyone enjoyed all the new and updated features that came with our first preview of Visual Studio’s next version, and now we’re back with more! This release brings additional tools to help you improve your productivity, debug your code,
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15 Sep 2023

Skill-it-forward: Making the skills-based job market work for you

Our Microsoft Learn community, along with the rest of the world, has experienced a time of great change over the last few years—the pandemic, a sudden shift to remote work, economic volatility, and huge leaps in the capabilities and implementation...

15 Sep 2023

Balancing User Updates with Security Best Practices

In today’s world, it is imperative for IT administrators and organizations to manage security effectively and embrace security best practices. One common best practice involves implementing appropriate permission levels to ensure that only authorized accounts can access sensitive data and functionality.
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14 Sep 2023

All About Microsoft Teams webinars: Technical walkthrough and live Q&A sessions from Teams Engineers

Based on multiple requests, we are hosting EMEA/APAC time zone webinar sessions to accommodate regional interest. Please find below additional sessions for you to register and attend:

You can find the upcoming session schedules and...

13 Sep 2023

September patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server

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

The following versions of the products have been patched. Check out the links for each version for more details.
Azure DevOps Server 2022.0.1
Azure DevOps Server 2020.1.2
Azure DevOps Server 2020.0.2
Azure DevOps Server 2019.1.2
Azure DevOps Server 2019.0.1
Team Foundation Server 2018.3.2
Azure DevOps Server 2022.0.1 Patch 3
Note: If you have Azure DevOps Server 2022,
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13 Sep 2023

Public preview of Workload identity federation for Azure Pipelines

Do you want to stop storing secrets and certificates in Azure service connections? Are you tired rotating these secrets whenever they expire? We are now announcing a public preview of workload identity federation for Azure service connections. Workload identity federation uses an industry-standard technology,
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11 Sep 2023

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | August 2023

Welcome to the August 2023 edition of What’s New in Teams! Following a month of great announcements from Microsoft Inspire 2023, we are not slowing down by bringing you 52 new features and devices for the month of August.We have a great line-up of new ...

7 Sep 2023

Elevating Debugging with Auto-decompilation and External Sources

Visual Studio has been supporting external sources debugging and decompilation for some time now. However, with the release of Visual Studio 17.7, the debugger took a significant leap forward by introducing Auto-decompilation for .NET libraries making the external code debugging in Visual Studio much more streamlined and effortless.
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7 Sep 2023

Survey extended to 9/30: How has technical skilling impacted your career?

The annual Skillsoft IT Skills and Salary Report provides extremely valuable insights—like which IT certifications are most in-demand globally, the costs and risks of skills gaps, salary trends, and the reasons why IT professionals leave their jobs. Re...

7 Sep 2023

How Microsoft Teams apps can help improve wellbeing at work

In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in digital solutions for health and wellness, and more organizations are now investing in technology to help improve the wellbeing of their workforce.¹ Microsoft Teams provides an ideal platform for depl...

6 Sep 2023

Keep your casing with Case-preserving Find and Replace

The Visual Studio search experience is getting a new feature that allows users to find and replace text without having to worry about different casings. For example, a method parameter `catalogItemId` and object property `CatalogItemId` have the same name but different capitalization but should both be replaced by something like ‘productId’ with their respective casings.
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6 Sep 2023

A deep dive into intelligent cameras Multi-Stream and Cloud IntelliFrame for Teams Rooms

When you join a meeting in Microsoft Teams, what do you expect to see when you have participants in a shared, physical space? Today, most cameras in Microsoft Teams Rooms show a view of the whole room, what we have become accustomed to as the “default”...

2 Sep 2023

What’s new in Microsoft Shifts Notifications

In response to valuable feedback from our customers, we embarked on a mission to significantly improve the way notifications are handled within our system. Our users highlighted concerns regarding noisy and irrelevant notifications that lacked the nece...

1 Sep 2023

Meet learners who changed their career with the help of Microsoft Learn

Microsoft Learn has a passionate and inspiring community to support your learning journey wherever it may take you. Here we highlight a few of our global learners who have shared their stories about making successful career changes using Microsoft Lear...

1 Sep 2023

Visual Studio for Mac Retirement Announcement

Today we are announcing the retirement of the Visual Studio for Mac IDE. Visual Studio for Mac 17.6 will continue to be supported for another 12 months, until August 31st, 2024, with servicing updates for security issues and updated platforms from Apple.
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31 Aug 2023

Discover Microsoft Azure learning, training, certifications, and career path opportunities

What is Microsoft Azure?
In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, cloud computing has become the backbone of many businesses and industries. Microsoft Azure—a key part of the Microsoft Cloud, which also includes Microsoft Security, ...

30 Aug 2023

Microsoft Learn: Updates to our business applications training and certification portfolio

IT professionals around the world count on Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions—key components of Microsoft business applications, along with Microsoft Power Platform—to help them manage sales, customer service, field service, finance, operations, and more...

30 Aug 2023

Supercharge brand content with the Typeface AI app for Microsoft Teams

We are just starting to scratch the surface of what generative AI can do, and yet it’s already beginning to transform the marketing industry. An April 2023 survey of global CMOs revealed that about 70 percent of their organizations use generative AI, w...

25 Aug 2023