Background

GitHub is a great system for individuals and OSS communities for both public and private project. However, corporate customers commonly want more control over their system than the standard GitHub offering. It is for this reason GitHub offers  GitHub Enterprise.

For most corporates, the essential feature …

I recently got a very interesting PR for my Cross-platform Release Notes Azure DevOps Pipelines Extension from Kenneth Scott. He had added a new templating engine to the task, Handlebars.

Previous to this PR the templating in the task was done with a line by line evaluation of a template that used my own mark-up. This …

Problem

I recently tripped myself up whist adding SonarQube analysis to a rather complex Azure DevOps build.

The build has two VsTest steps, both were using the same folder for their test result files. When the first VsTest task ran it created the expected .TRX and .COVERAGE files and then published its results to …

I wrote recently about Creating Hyper-V hosted Azure DevOps Private Agents based on the same VM images as used by Microsoft for their Hosted Agent.

As discussed in that post, using this model you will recreate your build agent VMs on a regular basis, as opposed to patching them. When I came to do this recently I found …

Introduction

There are times when you need to run Private Azure DevOps agents as opposed to using one of the hosted ones provided by Microsoft. This could be for a variety of reasons, including needing to access resources inside your corporate network or needing to have a special hardware specification or set of …

Over the past few days I have published two major enhancements to my Azure DevOps Cross Platform Release Notes Extension.

Added Support for Builds

Prior to version 2.17.x this extension could only be used in Releases. This was because it used Release specific calls provided in the Microsoft API to work out the work …

I have recently been doing a TFS 2015 to Azure DevOps Server 2019.1 upgrade for a client. The first for a while, I have been working with Azure DevOps Service mostly of late. Anyway I saw an issue I had never seen before with any version of TFS, and I could find no information on the Internet.

The Problem

The error …

Hit a strange problem today trying to do a simple Work Item update via the Azure DevOps REST API.

To do a WI update you need to call the REST API

• Using the verb PATCH
• With the Header “Content-Type” set to “application/json-patch+json”
• Include in the Body the current WI update revision (to make sure you are updating …

I have recently been getting a problem swapping between different organisations in Azure DevOps. It happens when I swap between Black Mable ones and customer ones, where each is back by different Azure Active Directory (AAD) but I am using the same credentials; because I am either a member of that AAD or a guest.

The …

I have recently be working on a release pipeline that deploys to a server behind a corporate firewall. This is done using an Azure DevOps private build agent and works fine.

As the service is a basic REST service and takes a bit of time to start-up I though a gate was a perfect way to pause the release pipeline until …