Sebastian is an Azure Nerd with focus on DevOps and Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS) that converted from the big world of SharePoint and O365. He was working with O365 since 2013 and loved it ever since. As his focus shifted in 2017 to more DevOps related topics in the Microsoft Stack. He learned to love the possibilities of automation. Besides writing articles in his blog and German magazines, he is still contributing to the SharePoint Developer Community (and PnP SharePoint) to help to make the ALM part a smoother place to live in.
A new Azure DevOps sprint was just released. The sprint contains the following new features: With this update, we’ve added a preview-but-don’t-run mode for YAML pipelines so you can try a YAML pipeline without running it or committing it to a repo. This will let you see a fully parsed YAML document without running the [...]
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A new Azure DevOps sprint was just released. The sprint contains the following new features: An update to Azure DevOps includes improved Azure Pipelines security with read-only variables and support for output variables in deployment jobs. Go to the sprint.
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This is a quick one. To notify all Windows VM owners in Azure we wanted to get all VMs for each subscription with their respective owners and contributors. Of course, I started with a normal Az PowerShell module and it’s cmdlets. But then I remembered the resource graph and wondered if I can get all VMs with subscription id, os [...]
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Azure DevOps introduced the multi-stage-pipelines UX experience for GA with the sprint update 162 (not exactly, but it’s a big step because this is default now). With the introduction of this feature also pipelines as code were introduced. You may say “Whaaaaat? Pipeline as Code?”. Yes! In the past, Azure DevOps [...]
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A new Azure DevOps sprint was just released. The sprint contains the following new features: In the Sprint 163 update of Azure DevOps, release and pipelines events have been added to the audit logs. In addition, service connections can now be used to reference repositories in another organization in a YAML pipeline. Go to the sprint.
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A new Azure DevOps sprint was just released. The sprint contains the following new features: GitHub Actions for Azure Pipelines is now available in the sprint 161 update of Azure DevOps. Use GitHub Actions to trigger an Azure Pipelines run directly from your GitHub Actions workflow. Go to the sprint.
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A new Azure DevOps sprint was just released. The sprint contains the following new features: In the latest update to Azure DevOps, we added a new sprint burndown widget that supports burning down by story points, count of tasks, and by summing custom fields. In addition, we improved pipelines security by restricting the scope of access [...]
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A new Azure DevOps sprint was just released. The sprint contains the following new features: Exciting enhancements and features are coming soon to all Azure DevOps services. Visit the features timeline for the complete list. Go to the sprint.
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I was watching the Ignite live stream today and they were talking about Edge having being reprogrammed and publicly released in January 2020. I knew that already since the Edge Insider program could give you access to the new Edge version for a long time already. As you may be well aware (or not ;-)) the new Edge version is completely [...]
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A new Azure DevOps sprint was just released. The sprint contains the following new features: In the latest Azure DevOps update, we added new Microsoft Teams apps for Azure Boards and Azure Repos. The Azure Boards app will let you monitor work item activity and create work items from your Microsoft Teams channel. On the other hand, the [...]
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