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Azure DevOps: ‘Removed’ Work Items Missing from ‘Assigned to me’ Query Results
I got a question from a customer yesterday as part of an upgrade to Azure DevOps 2020. He was telling me that some of the work items that were assigned to him were missing from the “Assigned to me” work item query results. He showed it to me and — sure enough — they were…
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Azure DevOps Tips: Handling Strings in YAML Pipelines
Yesterday I wrote a post about an error I was getting in an Azure DevOps YAML Pipeline script. The gist was that I had a long string in the YAML file and I was running into a problem using the YAML string literal pipe ‘|’ syntax. Well, in my effort to understand what the specification…
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YAML error in azure-pipelines.yml: “Bad indentation of a mapping entry”
Love it or hate it, you’ve got to admit that YAML build pipeline scripts can be a brittle. One little bit of whitespace out of place and — boom! — you staring at a ton of errors. I ran into two related errors yesterday while I was working on an Azure DevOps pipeline script: “bad…
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Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines: How to Set an Environment Variable during a Build or Release
I got a question from a user of my EF Core Migrations deploy utilities last week. He was running into problems where “dotnet ef database update” was picking up the wrong version of his appsettings.json config file. At first, it looked like it was a problem with my utility’s code but after some more digging,…
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Tip: How to Skip a Continuous Integration Build for an Azure DevOps Git Commit
It doesn’t happen a lot but sometimes you’ve got a git commit that you know that there’s no reason to build. For example, you’re committing a change to a Git repo and that change only has some minor documentation change. Basically, it’s something that would never effect a build or a release so there’s no…
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“TF31002: Unable to connect” error from Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2012, & Visual Studio 2010
I recently ran into a strange problem while doing an upgrade from Team Foundation Server to Azure DevOps Server 2020 for a client. Everything upgraded smoothly but users running older versions of Visual Studio couldn’t connect. They were getting the dreaded “TF31002: Unable to connect to this Team Foundation Server” error if they tried to…
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Azure DevOps Server 2020: Missing Sprint Burndown Dashboard Widgets
I recently did an Azure DevOps Server 2020 upgrade for a client. We took their Team Foundation Server 2017 (TFS2017) instance, migrated the data to new hardware, and upgraded it to Azure DevOps 2020. Everything seemed to be fine but we got a report of a strange issue with the project Dashboards. This user wanted…
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Convert your TFVC Source Control to Git: The #1 Most Hidden Feature in all of Azure DevOps
Did you know that there’s a way to convert your existing Azure DevOps TFVC source code to Git? This post will show you how.
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An Easier Way to Manage Permissions in Azure DevOps
When you’re managing permissions in Azure DevOps Server or in Azure DevOps Services, often you’re tempted to add people directly to your project or directly to a team. It’s not wrong exactly but over time it tends to get messy – especially if you’re adding the same people to new projects and new teams over…
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Azure DevOps Server 2020 Install Guide
Hey All — I just published my Azure DevOps Server 2020 Installation Guide. This guide continues the tradition going back to 2009 of publishing installation guides for each new version of Team Foundation Server and Azure DevOps Server. Here’s the list of chapters the Azure DevOps Server 2020 guide: Install Windows Server 2019 Install SQL…