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 pipelines checking status of individual matrix jobs
How can I check the status of individual job in matrix strategy?
jobs:
- job: A
strategy:
matrix:
nonprod:
environment: test
prod:
environment: prod
steps:
- pwsh: Write-host something…

Aurimas Stands with Ukraine
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Accessing output variables in matrix job
I am generating output variables in matrix job A:
- job: A
strategy:
matrix:
nonprod:
environment: test
prod:
environment: prod
steps:
- pwsh: Write-Host "##vso[task.setvariable…

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Azure DevOps Server 2019 Analytics configure via Power BI query issue
I get the following error when trying to configure via Power BI query.
DataSource.Error: Microsoft.Mashup.Engine1.Library.Resources.HttpResource: Request failed:
OData Version: 3 and 4, Error: The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad…

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Tie pull request to work items only in the current project in Azure Devops
Within Azure DevOps Server, is there a way to limit the work items that can be tied to a given pull request to only those in the current project? Currently, when submitting a pull request Azure DevOps Server suggests and allows all work items…

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Azure DevOps Server - CI - Database Unit test
I have an on-premises Azure DevOps Server and have a VS2019 Solution that contains a database project (using SSDT). I have added some database unit tests to the solution and these run through correctly.
I have created a build pipeline for the…

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In AzureDevOps Server (on prem) how do I get the timestamp when I last looked at a Pull Request?
I'm using the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Client library (added via NuGet) to connect to my on-prem Azure Dev Ops server and query various bits of information regarding pull requests. I'd like to make a little notification application that can…

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Azure DevOps Server (onprem) - container job - checkout not working
I'm trying to run my build inside a container with azure-pipelines in Azure DevOps Server(onprem). Following the official guide https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/process/container-phases?view=azure-devops-2019
I do have a…

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Can I, as a Visual Studio Enterprise subscriber, run a DevOps Server 2019 on premise (Production) without buying additional licences?
On this page the wording is "Visual Studio subscriptions include one server license plus a user CAL for the subscriber". I simply cannot find additional information that explains this in more detail.
I understand that I need OS and DB licenses, I'm…

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Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1.1. Can't detach Collection. Collection is "offline" now, can't turn it "online"
Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1.1. Can't detach Collection. Collection is "offline" now, can't turn it "online".
If I try at Azure DevOps Managment Console:
- on "detach": "The following error occurred while running readiness checks: TF400579:…

Ivan Pivovarov
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Azure devops server file system trigger
How could I achieve this on Azure Devops Server. I need to trigger a release pipeline based on the creation of a file at specific location. Is there any extension that can monitor a file system location an trigger the pipeline. Creating a schedule…

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Azure DevOps Server - How to migrate existing collection/project to SCRUM
We did upgrade TFS 2013 Update 2 to Azure DevOps Server (on-premises), we don't know exactly which Template all of our collections use but we would like to convert it to SCRUM.
Is it possible to convert our existing projects/collections to this…

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Azure Devops Server - Deploy database updates under a specific domain account
In an on-prem/self-hosted azure pipelines release task, I want to deploy database updates via sqlpackage.exe to sql server.
I am currently doing this with a command line task.
The admins require a connection to sql server with a trusted domain…

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Large Azure DevOps (and Azure DevOps Server 2019) changesets fail with "Request Entity Too Large"
We seem to be hitting a limit when trying to add a large binary file to Azure DevOps using the REST APIs. The same file check-in works fine using the old SOAP APIs and also works using the TFVC CLI (tf.exe). But we have a use case where we need to…

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Where are the Description and Discussion fields in TFS stored in the SQL database
I've been looking in the TFS_Default Collection and TFS_Warehouse database's but haven't had any luck.
Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated.
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Getting an error when trying to create an agent pool
I am trying to create a new agent but getting below error.
Any idea what is causing the issue?

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