Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server or TFS) is the latest iteration of Microsoft's DevOps and ALM product suite which contains source control (Azure Repos), CI/CD (Azure Pipelines), agile work and portfolio management (Azure Boards) etc. The current version of Azure DevOps Server is 2020. Use this tag for questions on the 2019 on-prem version, as opposed to Azure DevOps Service, which is the cloud version.
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Azure Devops delayed Continuous Integration build
I currently have an Azure Devops install that I am configuring for automated build and testing. I would like to enable a Continuous Integration trigger for the build process, however our check-in standards require different parts of our code to be…

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Have code to connect to TFS 2013 from Powershell. Is there an equivalent for Azure DevOps Server 2019?
This may be a pretty dumb question but I couldn't find an answer.
I have been working with TFS 2013 since it came out, and now I'm on to Azure DevOps Server 2019. For TFS, I had an easy way of connecting to the instance using the following…

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Set Permissions to Test Plans only
I'm currently searching for a way to grant specific users permissions to only use and manage the features listed ind the Test Plans tab in azure devops. So users in this group/team should not be able to see releases, builds, code and all the other…

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In DevOpsServer 2019, rules with doubles seem to be different in different locations
In DevOps Server, I am trying to set a default value for the WIT "bug". Story points should always be set to 0.5
So I changed and uploaded the witd in that way:

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Can you git clone with ssh from Azure Devops Server repos?
I would like to authenticate using SSH when git cloning repos from our Azure Devops Server (hosted onpremises).
I do see a tutorial in Microsoft's docs, however the sample seems to be for Azure Devops Services (hosted in cloud).
Moreover - in the…

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azure pipeline to delete the old azure git branch(not repo)
I am trying to create a azure pipeline to delete the old azure git branch(not repo).
So that creating an automated pipeline which will take bellow parameters.
Project Name
Repo Name
Target date
Based on input provided, all branches created before…

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Azure DevOps - Task Group - Visual Studio Test task - Path to custom test adapters - set variable by script in previous tasks does not work
We use xUnit to run tests using Visual Studio Test task after Visual Studio Build task.
The solution is created on .NET Fw 4.6.2 and using xUnit version 2.4.1.
There is some kind of bug, that makes the Test run resulting in all tests GREEN, but…

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copy feature branch code into master branch of another repository
I'm looking for steps to push feature branch on repository A to master branch of repository B using command line steps on azure DevOps build pipeline.
Thanks

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Using TFS Rest API works from curl but not from client dotnet library
I'm using the following code from the library Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Client:
var credential = new VssBasicCredential("", "");
var url = """;
using var vssConnection = new VssConnection(new Uri(url), credential);
await…

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Retrieve project's process in Azure DevOps Server
We have migrated TFS to Azure DevOps Server 2019 (17.143.28621.4).
We want to know the migrated projects' process.
In Azure DevOps Service, this information is displayed on "Organization settings -> Projects" but not with Azure DevOps…

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Clone git from Azure DevOps Server (on-prem) using access token
I have an Azure DevOps Server instance installed on a Windows Server 2019 machine: https://tfs.acme.com
I'm trying to clone a repository using a personal access token. I managed to clone the repository using my NTLM login password, but not using the…

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How to stop checkout from TFVC repositories in Azure develops server pipeline?
I have found some solution here: Checkout part of a branch in Azure DevOps Pipelines (GetSources)
But the concern is I am not using yml script to configure the pipeline.
I have configured the pipeline like this:
I can view my yml script from…

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Error when trying to create a Team Project Collection in Azure DevOps Server 2019
I can’t seem to get the 1st project collection created in Azure DevOps Server 2019.
The creation process keeps timing out (within an hour range) and stating that it can’t connect to the DB, but it’s clear it’s been connected prior to step #67 in…

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How to fix endpoint where Endpoint Administrators lost privileges by accident?
By mistake, I deleted Endpoint Administrators group privileges from a service connection endpoint in Azure DevOps Server 2019. Thus, I lost administrative privileges to that endpoint, even though I am a project administrator. I can see no users in…

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ISubscriber project creation event not being caught
We have a custom server side tfs plugin that is deployed under Azure DevOps Server 2019\Application Tier\Web Services\bin\Plugins. There are two subscribers in the plugin, one is subscribed to the WorkItemChangedEvent and the other one is for…

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