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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Running a build task to start a process and do not wait
How can I run a build pipeline task to start a process (in this case the Java process with Selenium grid) and continue the build pipeline? I tried a number of different techniques with PowerShell (start-process, start-job) and command line but the…
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How to use a test plan (it is a manual test) on Azure devops 2019 CI/CD pipeline
Righ now, I am setting a CI/CD pipeline on Azure devops 2019. I have implemented some Autometed test, but I would like to know if there is a way to set a stage in a pipeline with a task that allow me to trigger a manual test created on test plans ?
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Can't create a Team Project for Azure DevOps Server 2019 from Visual Studio 2017
I'm trying to create a new Team Project for my Collection on a newly installed Azure DevOps Server 2019 from Visual Studio 2017. I'm able to successfully create the project using the web interface, but when try from VS it fails. Here is the…
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Unable to install Test Manager extension on Azure DevOps Server 2019
Recently we have upgraded our TFS server to the latest 2019 version.
As the Admin, I was trying to install the downloaded Test Manager extension just like we did in TFS2017 and TFS2018.
However, I was unable to install it even with full access and…
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How to merge the changes of a Work Item to branches other than the source branch?
My question is similar to this older question To merge from the current branch into the other branch, except that I would like to know whether this can be done directly with TFS 2017 / 2019.
Assume we have a master branch that contains all the…
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Azure DevOps Server deleted builds don't free up space
The on premises SQL Server 2017 database, for Azure DevOps Server is approaching 280GB in size.
One of our builds was adding 210MB artifact to Azure DevOps Server (on premises) instance.
The build job had about 100 builds and I deleted 99 of them.…
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On Azure DevOps Server 2019, how can I merge the master branch into develop branch WITHOUT its policies being applied?
On a NuGet library, I'm using the develop branch as the continuous integration branch. I've set policies on it so that no pull request can be approved without it being built. Furthermore, any successful merge will cause a CI build to run and…
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Is there an option to Hide/Show fields in work item(Inheritance process)?
I am new to the Inheritance process, I try to create a dynamic Work Item
Where selection on one field value will Show/Hide another field.
In the TFS 2018 i could fill the values Using different global lists - which are not available any more.
Using…
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TFS ServerItemExists method of versionControlServer returns file not exists, while it is present
I'm trying to update in-house developed plugin for Azure DevOps Server. Previously company was using TFS 2017, and plugin worked correctly. Now, it launches (I see it through messages in EventLog), but there is an issue, that function…
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Should I put my custom build steps in MSBuild or TFS/Azure DevOps Build pipelines?
Is MSBuild being deprecated in favor of TFS/Azure DevOps Build pipelines? I have some custom build steps I need to add, such as obfuscating code and computing file hashes. I'm not sure if I should add them as a custom target in my MSBuild/csproj…
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Azure DevOps Server - enter proper license on brand new DevOps Server RC2?
I recently installed the new DevOps Server RC2 on my Windows Server. I decided to end the trial evaluation mode. However i find nowhere i can enter a proper license for DevOps Server or configure paid users.
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Maven packages from Azure Artifacts feed
I'm following the article to deploy Azure Artifact for managing my maven packages.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/maven/install?view=azure-devops
I created a new feed and configured the upstream as…
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Azure DevOps Server (onPrem) SQL DB Deploy - how to add certificate trust?
I am using TFS (Azure DevOps Server 2019) and am trying to use the SQL DB Deploy (version 0.*) step to perform a publish of a SQL script.
I am getting the error: The connection was successful -- The certificate chain was issued by an authority that…
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how to have multiple nodepools to the Azurepipeline yaml
In AzureDevops yaml pipeline, can we define multiple node pools to the same stage. For example we have vm [vmpool] based and docker [dockerpool] based build agents and they are belongs to separate pools. But Some our pipeline stages can be run in…
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Get 3 hierarchies in Azure Devops server query for tasks and user story
I have task that has dependency between each other. They are linked as predecessor.
I've created a query that shows this predecessor but only for tasks.
I'd like to show the UserStory (parent) of the task. Is it possible?
I tried to edit the query…
