Questions tagged [azure-devops]
Azure DevOps provides unlimited private Git hosting, cloud build for continuous integration, agile planning (issues, Kanban, Scrum, dashboards) along with release management for continuous delivery to the cloud and on-premises. Azure DevOps has a powerful set of collaboration tools to support your DevOps team on every platform with IDE support in Eclipse, IntelliJ, XCode and Visual Studio.
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Multi-branch release pipeline in Azure Devops for multiple artifact triggers
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I seem to run around myself in circles with this problem. Either I'm doing something wrong, or Azure Devops simply does not support it.
For the simplest case (we've got many products ...
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What happens when a PAT expires
In azure devops when you create a PAT you can set it's lifetime up to a year. What happens when it expires? Does it auto renew? Do I need to crate a new one and for every service that uses it, I ...
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Creating a task for a backlog item automated in the release pipeline of VSTS
I'm looking for a possibility to create a task and attach it to a backlog-item from the release pipeline in Microsofts TFS/VSTS. So far I couldn't find anything that would make this possible. Has ...
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Continuous integration azure slow or fails
Two weeks ago the deployment time for my Azure Bots started to be totally atypical
Before it was running between 2-4 minutes max. but since then it takes more than 30mins or most of the times ...
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Container to Obfuscate
I have a few CI environment in VSTS. One for dev, QA, staging, and production. my builds are created in the cloud by VSTS build agents. these builds are not obfuscated by design and need to be ...
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How to generate Code Churn in VSTS?
In this article I noticed that is it possible to generate code churn reports for TFS:
I would like to generate the similar report using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). Is that possible and, if so,...
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How do I get Azure Release Pipelines to move a .jar from a Build Pipeline job and place it on a Linux VM?
I know Azure release pipelines can deploy to on-premise servers and other cloud VMs. My pom.xml file enables Maven to create a .jar file. My Azure build uses this pom.xml file. The Azure build ...
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Single Build with Multiple Artifacts
I'm a little confused on the Azure Pipeline steps. My solutions has many projects and one UI project that contains both an ASP.Net-Core WebApi/MVC with Angular.
the Build Solution builds similar to ...
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Conditionally stopping SQL replication during deployment
The project that i recently started working on uses a dacpac to deploy / update a database in MS SQL Server. The database is replicated, whenever the dacpac contains modifications to any table, we ...
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How Build Retention Policy Works in VSTS/Azure DevOps Server 2019 using Build Definitions
Hi , I want to know How Build Retention Policy Work Internally.
I have a shared location where outputs of all Builds copied.Build retention Policy deletes those outputs/artifacts according to ...
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Deploy desktop application in Azure DevOps
I'm using Azure DevOps and I need a way to release an internal desktop application. Right now I have a pipeline ready and generating artifacts, but I don't see anywhere in the documentation how can I ...
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Gitflow with pull request or pull request
My team is currently using gitflow workflow into develop branch.
Here is an overview for what we are doing. We are a sql server data warehouse team using Azure repos and Azure devops to build and ...
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How to I get a TFS CI Build to Bastion Host?
My company is implementing Azure for the first time. We have applications doing Devops stuff( CI/CD) on-prem. Now, we are going to deploy to Azure from on-Prem. But we are connecting to Azure through ...
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Azure Devops: Filter Test Projects in Nuget Build Pipeline
I'm working on a nuget build pipeline. My problem is that my integration test project is being packaged and deployed to the azure artifacts, while my unit test projects are not.
The integration test ...
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Can anyone explain what is happening in an Azure Devops build and release in more detail?
I'm finding the Azure devops documentation pretty poor - or maybe I'm just not familiar enough with it for it to make any kind of sense to me. Having said that, I've managed to create a build pipeline ...
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Azure DevOps/Pipelines seed job equivalent?
I'm looking at moving to Azure and using Azure Pipelines (I've used Jenkins before now) - I plan to deploy to Azure Kubernetes Service and store my Docker images in an Azure Container Registry. Using ...
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VSTS Azure for DevOps: Unit test checking mechanism on pull request
Is there a way in VSTS Azure for DevOps to implement unit test checking mechanism on pull request.
The condition is to only allow commits that change something in the unittest folder for example.
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Why does AAD not Sync with Organisation users?
I have an issue with email addresses (username) not sync-ing with AAD and DevOps organisations.
I had some email addresses in mixed case (upper & lower) in the AAD, but made them all lowercase ...
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Add a rule to a work item type with formula in Azure DevOps boards
In Azure DevOps I'm adding some fields on a task and now I'll do some calculations with them. For example if I enter in field A 10 and in the field B 50, field C must be equal to 15, calculated using ...
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Web deploy package for asp.net website
I have created two websites in single solution. I have created a VSTS build definition with following MSBuild arguments:
/p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:WebPublishMethod=Package /p:PackageAsSingleFile=true /...
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Why does Azure DevOps continue with Text must not be null error message?
I am trying to help someone who is trying to build a React Native application on Azure DevOps that continues to give them this error:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* Where:
Script 'D:\a\1\...
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One time Web release deployment in Azure DevOps
Can someone tell me how or point me to a good video/doc on how to create a one-time release for a build in Azure DevOps. Our apps are ASP.net. We don't usually create constant weekly builds at my ...
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Azure DevOps Server: Why does a Visual Studio Test step take so long to run unit tests?
In an Azure DevOps Server build system installed on premises, I have a Build Pipeline with a Visual Studio Test step. The step is configured to discover and run XUnit unit tests in a DLL.
The step is ...
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Azure DevOps change the default wiki URL
We've got an on-premise instance of Azure DevOps server and we'd like to have the project Overview/Wiki 'button' to point to our dedicated wiki server instead of the Azure default's one.
There's no ...
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Update release variable value via Azure DevOps Service EndPoint
I am currently researching the Azure DevOps ServiceNow Extension. There is a Pre-Deploy Gate that outputs a variable PREDEPLOYGATE.adop.CHANGE_REQUEST_NUMBER which i would like to capture into a ...
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How to restrict access on changing task status in Azure Devops
My manager would like to use the Azure DevOps board feature to keep track of her employee's tasks but asked if there is a way so that only she can move or closeout task items. It's a process control ...
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Reading two Repos in Azure Build pipeline
I created a Build pipeline in Azure using classic editor and selected empty job instead of using any template. This way provides option to connect only one repository at once. My requirement is to ...
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How do I enable Progress report for Test Plans
Sprint 156 update rolled out Progress report in preview (should be an option between Test plans* and Parameters) but I can't seem to find where to enable it. I have turned on all my previews and still ...
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Migrating from TFS 2015 to DevOps Server 2019
We are attempting to migrate our current TFS 2015 (Source control and build server) to Azure DevOps Server 2019.
We have followed the instructions given on the
We have followed all instructions ...
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Installing Composer Fails in Azure
I'm new the CI - CD field.I signed up for the azure free plan and have been trying to deploy my laravel website on my laravel DevOps project I created on azure.It fails spectacularly.It says composer ...
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Unable to import pyodbc in an Azure function
I have an Azure function which runs fine locally but when I run it after deploying to azure it gives an error: "No module named 'pyodbc'". Any help?
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Azure ARM template limits - what is a template expression
I read this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/azure-subscription-service-limits#template-limits and see that the limits is 4mb which is fine. My template is no way near this. But I can see that ...
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Kanban Board: customising number of fields displayed on the board items for individual user preference
This may be a similar question to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56999453/is-there-a-way-to-visualise-a-query-in-a-kanban-style-board-view
Is it possible to have a custom views for the Kanban ...
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How to view statistics on code churn per developer and commit data using Power BI?
I have been tasked with creating a report on developer efficiency statistics and would like any pertinent information on how to use Power BI with our Azure DevOps repo (or any other means, this was ...
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Azure DevOps Server deleted builds don't free up space
The on premises SQL Server 2017 database, for Azure DevOps Server is approaching 280GB in size.
One of our builds was adding 210MB artifact to Azure DevOps Server (on premises) instance.
The build job ...
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How to determine mappings between Azure VMs and Azure storage accounts
I am organizing the resources of an azure tenant. I am creating new resource groups to host resources with different utilization.
Formerly all resources where in the same Resource Group. There were ...
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Facing issue while using “Publish Over CIFS Plugin” jenkins plugin?
I am using Jenkins in windows machine to build my .Net code and to publish artifacts in IIS server hosted on remote windows server. in this process i followed following steps.
Installed jenkins,...
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Resource Group Deployment never ends
I have an ARM template that is meant to deploy an Azure private DNS and a small number of linked VNets to a new Resource Group.
I am doing this deployment through az CLI, but the deployment seems to ...
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How to build asp core 2.2 linux image on Hosted Windows 2019 with VS2019?
I'm currently redefining our build pipeline and build our sources by using the VM image windows-latest which currently resolves to Hosted Windows 2019 with VS2019.
After calling publish I get my ...
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How do I specify a database name for a SQL DB Deploy task?
Using Azure DevOps, I'm trying to setup a SQL DB Deploy task as a part of a new release pipeline. Database Name is a required field for this task. However, the field is read only, so I cannot manually ...
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Can we reuse Variables across variable groups in Azure DevOps?
I'm using DevOps to deploy Azure Data Factory ARM template
I'm using a deployment pipeline to take artifacts from a prior build pipeline and deploy to various environments (TEST, PROD)
I've created ...
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Azure DevOps extract unique visitors
I am running a version of Azure DevOps and would like to track adoption.
Is it possible to get the number of unique visitors who have logged in / used Azure DevOps in the last 30 days, for instance?
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How to access VSTS (Azure DevOps) Service Endpoint through PowerShell?
I am trying to access the VSTS Service Endpoint through PowerShell. My goal is to use Service Endpoint Credentials to authenticate a service using PowerShell or command line.
Is it possible?
Please ...
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Hide a custom field from work item layout and set its default value
How can I hide a custom field from workItem layout, and it should be added in Web Hook payload.?
When I set the default value for the custom field, it gets reset upon creation of new Bug and then its ...
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In Azure Devops, is it possible to pass an argument that is variable on the source environment?
I am trying to create a Task Group that can be used interchangeably between Build and Release pipelines.
However, I am having an issue passing one of the arguments to my Powershell Task Group.
The ...
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Assign bug from different repo when creating a pull request
Say I have 2 repos...
And I have a work item (or bug, or whatever) in one repo, and my code in another repo (yes, I know it's silly, that's how my group rolls for historical reasons).
Is there a way ...
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WorkItem Tracking error when performing clone operation in Azure Devops
Today I received an error when trying to clone test plans in Azure DevOps web portal.
Steps:
In Visual Studio, I select the Test Case option
I find the Test Plan I want to clone, select it , and ...
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How to completely replace master with another branch in TFS Azure Devops
Using TFS Azure Devops, there is a repo with valid code being maintained in a secondary branch. However, the master branch is multiple years out of date.
I want to obliterate the contents of master ...
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Azure Pipelines with Bitbucket “unresolved user”
I'm using Azure Pipelines to build a Node.JS project hosted in Bitbucket. I've enabled continuous integration and everything works fine, except for the fact that Azure doesn't recognise the Bitbucket ...
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Exclude sub .vcxproj from .sln when using Azure pipelines CI tool
Following is my azure-pipelines.yml. It's a generic one for Visual Studio (Windows) project that triggers on master and trying to build the main .sln file. The problem is that I have three sub ....
