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Discovering relevant work items should consume as little time and effort as possible. That’s why we have built work item search with speed and simplicity in mind, so you can spend more of your time on your work and less time searching for work items.  Say hello to Work item search, now available by default with Visual Studio Team Services. 5/25: T...

A little over a year ago we released the new work item form to Visual Studio Team Services and now with TFS 2017 the same great functionality is available to our on-premises customers. Here are some highlights of the new features available today: Additionally, we've made great improvements to the links, attachments, and hist...

To demonstrate our continued commitment to support Java developers and their full lifecycle DevOps needs with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS), I want to share some of our recent and exciting Java-related feature announcements. Our teams are working with large and small Java teams every day to better understand th...

Back in March, I wrote about the WhiteSource Bolt extension for VSTS. This is a fantastic way to automate security checks for open source vulnerabilities in the release pipeline of your team project. The most frequent question I’ve received is, When can we have this for TFS too? I’m happy to announce that the extension now works with TFS on-pre...

We have had a number of customers ask us how they can create / define variables while creating a Release, similar to how they can do this while queueing a Build.  So I thought I would write a quick blog that explains how this can be done. For reference, below is the screenshot of how this can be achieved while queueing a build: In RM, let ...

It was a busy week for everyone last week at the Build 2017 conference in Seattle. Thanks to everyone who was able to attend the conference and stop by the DevOps area to talk about VSTS. Even for the people that were there in person it is impossible to catch everything, but also for the hundreds of thousands watching online I thought it would be w...

On June 17th 2017, the always awesome community of individuals passionate about DevOps on the Microsoft stack are coming together in a series of meet-ups around the world as part of their first Global DevOps Bootcamp. At the events you’ll learn about the latest trends and people will be sharing their DevOps experiences.  It’s a great opportunity to...

The previous post introduced how - for a given code commit - TIA will select and run only the relevant tests required to validate that commit. Thus, without sacrificing quality, both the testrun and its enclosing CI definition will complete faster. Here is how that translated to reality for one of our teams: The top graph plots the time-to-compl...

I am pleased to announce the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) IntelliJ plugin is now built-in and provided with JetBrains Rider IDE out-of-the-box. The plugin is a result of a partnership between JetBrains and Microsoft. Previously, both of our companies provided separate plugins accessing certain features of VSTS...

This blog post shows how you can deploy an application from Visual Studio Team Services to Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set.  An application running on a VM Scale Set is typically deployed in one of the two ways: Creating a custom image approach, also known as immutable deployments has its advantages. It is predictable, as you are prom...