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This month I have two extensions that I am excited about. Chef, who earlier this year released their core set of CI/CD tasks for working with Chef, is adding a new extension that connects VSTS with their app & container automation system, Habitat. Agile Extensions is also making an early splash in the Marketplace with the newest awesome additio...

UPDATE 10/06/2017. The S123 Deployment is complete. The Burndown / Burnup widgets are now available for all accounts. === The Burndown and Burnup Widgets are now available for those who have installed the Analytics Extension on their Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) accounts. (NOTE: The S123 Deployment should be completed by the end of Septembe...

Microsoft Ignite is happening next week in Orlando, and we are really excited to be there! Microsoft Ignite is an IT Professional and Developer conference that happens yearly, with over 700+ sessions, insights, roadmaps and live demos from the products you use every day. The Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) team will be there and you don’t want t...

Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics.  TOP STORIES RADIOTFS TIP: If you want to get your VSTS news in audio form then be sure to subscribe to RadioTFS.  FEEDBACK What do you think? How could we do this series better? Here are some ways to connect with us...

A DevSecOps best practice is root cause analysis, so that we can learn from live site incidents and prevent their recurrence. Equifax made news recently with the exfiltration of data from half the US population. This is a sobering opportunity to look at the root cause. The Equifax attack used Apache Struts, a popular open source project for web ap...

The Release Candidate (RC) of Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 3 is now available. It is a go-live release and fully supported for production use. This release includes bug fixes for TFS 2017 since Update 2, many of which resulted from technical support case resolutions and Developer Community problem reports. You'll see fixes across the produ...

In 2014, we set a goal to make Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) a global service. This is driven by our commitment to provide our customers around the world great performance and compliance with local data sovereignty requirements. Between 2014 and 2016 we announced VSTS instances in Europe, Australia, India, and Brazil. Along the way we have als...

Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics.  TOP STORIES VIDEOS TIP: If you want to get your VSTS news in audio form then be sure to subscribe to RadioTFS .  FEEDBACK What do you think? How could we do this series better? Here are some ways to connect with us:...

Visual Studio Marketplace is moving its markdown parser to markdown-it which is based on the CommonMark specification. If you are a Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) extension publisher, this would impact formatting of your extension markdown content and thus its presentation to marketplace users. Impacted extension content is: ...

Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics.  TOP STORIES RADIOTFS **** TIP: If you want to get your VSTS news in audio form then be sure to subscribe to RadioTFS .  FEEDBACK What do you think? How could we do this series better? Here are some ways to connect ...