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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Fetching Merge Commit in Azure Devops Server 2019 Results in Excessive Files
I have been observing some very odd behavior with our Azure Devops Server 2019 server. Occasionally fetches pull down vastly more data than necessary to complete a fetch. This usually happens around large merges, however yesterday it happened with…

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How to configure Azure-DevOps release pipeline task to kick off automated UI test scripts on xcode in MacBook?
I have setup the Build pipeline in Azure-DevOps to generate build of xcode automation project. For that, I have used Microsoft hosted MacOS agent on my macbook. Now, i want to setup release pipeline to kick off automated test scripts from…

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Error while i try to install Deployment agent on IIS Server
I have One server IIS on a Domain and I have an Azure Devops Server On Premise on another domain.
I tried to execute the deployment group script but I have this issue in my powershell:
An Error while sending the request.
Failed connection. do it…

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Finding Azure Devops Server product key
I'm trying to activate my installed Azure Devops Server 2019 update 1 (i installed the trial version).
I have access to my organization's VLSC, but when i'm trying to get the product key it says:
"This product does not required a product key".
where…

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How to create rules for work items in TFS 2018 and TFS 2019?
I need to create rules for work items that will check for special characters in the fields. I need to ban all special characters like (@&*()^%$) etc. TFS supports this?
How can I do it?
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Cannot upgrade TFS to Azure DevOps Server 2019 because Sharepoint extensions are detected
I have TFS 2013 v. 5 (Trial version) installed and I want to upgrade it to Azure DevOps Server 2019.
But I get the error:
"Direct upgrade from Team Foundation Server 2013 is not supported. You must uninstall Team Foundation Server 2013 before you…

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Change color if visited links on Azure DevOps
We have a TFS server running, now re-branded as Azure DevOps Server.
On some dashboards we use a Markdown widget to provide some information, including links. These links turn up blue before visiting them, but after visiting a link the link turns…

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Where are the Selenium Logs when Running in Azure DevOps Server
I am running a Selenium test, in C#, driven by MSTest in Azure DevOps Server 2019.
When I look in the logs for the Visual Studio Test task which runs the MSTest tests all I can see is that the test method has been discovered and that the test ran.…

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Permanently delete git repository with all its content without project id
Is there any way to permanently delete a git repository without the need of the project.
I already have deleted the projects and they are not in the database any more.
however the git repositories stil are. how can these be deleted
Especially the…

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UWP app build all 3 platforms using azure devops (CI)
I have asked a question previously on how to build a UWP app on all 3 platforms when there are platform-dependent dlls on the project. The solution is a success but now I have an issue with the automated build on Azure DevOps.
On the DevOps CI…

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VS 2010 Can't connect projects in AzureDevops server 2019
VS 2010 connects to DevOps 2019 inhouse server, it lists all the projects properly but when you try to connect to a project it gets the latest and goes offline. This is only happening in VS 2010. VS 2015, 2017 and 2019 works perfectly.

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Azure DevOps Field Values from list of builds
We are using Azure DevOps 2019 on-prem in our firm, and I would like to create an option box field in our Bug work item, and I want it to be a combo-box where the values are builds from all the build definitions under the project.
From checking the…

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Azure Devops Dry Run Import failed and I am unable to remove organization after fixing issues
I ran a migration to import my on premise Azure Devops Server to Azure Devops Service account. However, the dry run import failed. In that process it created a new organization [OrganizationName]-dryrun. When I click on that organization I get a…

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How to migrate data from one collection to another?
On Azure DevOps Server 2019, I wish to customize my backlogs and boards to add new levels and WITs, as described here.
Doing so requires the new Inherited process model, however, and my collection was created some years prior to the model's…

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NuGet package restore in builds and Visual Studio
We have a number of VS2013 solutions, with the "Enable NuGet package restore" option selected. Remembering back, selecting this option creates a ".nuget" solution folder containing a number of files (NuGet.config, NuGet.exe, NuGet.targets). As a…

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