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.
Questions tagged [azure-devops-server-2019]
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How to migrate collections from TFS 2017 to Azure DevOps Server 2019 (Different DB servers)
I have been handling an aging Windows Server 2008 machine with TFS upgraded in place to 2017.2. Now, with Azure DevOps Server 2019, support for Windows Server 2008 is no longer available. Also, the existing SQL Server is 2012 and is no longer…

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what is azuredevops pools maintenance job
Is AzureDevops pools maintenance job can be restricted to specific path ?
What are all directories it willl be deleting or cleaning up. If we have some cofig settings settled in any files, will this cleanup will affect them ?

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Azure devops server (on premise) integrate with SourceTree or Gitkraken
I've recently setup an azure devops server on a VM but I can't seem to connect to it using Gitkraken. GitKraken will give the error "Could not reach the specified host domain"
SourceTree will give an error "TF400813: Resource not available for…

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what is the way to get the variable group id of AzureDevops using CLI command
We are using AzureDevops server and automated our pipeline variable group and variables creation using a pre-build task which will run bash script below and will gerate the variabel and Variable group together
Since its a sensitive information, we…

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how to lock down release pipepline Azure Devops Server
I have a requirement to prevent changes to the part of a release pipeline that releases to databases.
in my release pipeline, I have 2 release agent jobs, one for the database, one for the application. The agentpool that runs the database release…

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How to integrate Jenkins with Azure repo
We are trying to setup CICD pipeline with Jenkins. Currently it's in Azure DevOps. Our code is in an Azure repo (GIT). We have Jenkins installed onto an on-prem windows server.
Via a dummy job we are trying to checkout the code from Azure repo. Our…

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AzureDevOps OnPremise behind reverse-proxy
is it possible to run Azure DevOps server behind reverse-proxy and give it an alias name?
Let's say I have server on HTTP://adps.domain:8080/tfs
And I want it to sit behind HTTPS://safe.adps.domain/tfs with reverse-proxy
Is it possible at…

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Azure DevOps Server 2019/2020 Access Levels Page Not Found
I am running Azure DevOps Server 2019 cu7. When I click on the Access Levels link at the Project Collection level, I get a page not found error for ../_admin/_licenses. I then upgraded my development farm to ADO Server 2020, and still have the same…

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Azure DevOps OnPrem - Service Connection failed - Failed to obtain the Json Web Token
So, a bit of a strange one and I'm hoping that someone's had this issue and found a fix (Or understands why it's happening)
So this used to work without any issue... Just started happening this week - to our knowledge
Basically, when you create a…

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Azure DevOps - Branch Policies are resulting in multiple builds running during Pull Requests
Our repositories has folders, the code in the folder are sometimes dependent on code in other folders, but only in one direction. For way of explanation:
C depends on B
B depends on A
We have 3 builds required on our Pull Request policy for…

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How to compare @Today with a tag in Azure DevOps?
I know this is a weird question as there are other ways to do what I'm asking but I do have a use case here...
I'm trying to add a custom sprint style rule to turn any card containing a tag with the date of today red. Please note I live in Australia…

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Deployment Groups - You do not have permissions to register targets. Contact your release manager to grant permissions
Coming across an issue in Azure DevOps Server (On-prem) 2019 Patch 1.1 where when 1 person creates a 'Deployment Group' under a project - no one else can register a target, as they see an alert stating: 'You do not have permissions to register…

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Azure DevOps getting 403(forbidden) in a Cypress Testing pipeline
I have an Azure DevOps pipeline that runs a series of tests(Cypress) against an App Service. This App Service has restricted access, so i get 403(forbidden) on every request, and i have been looking for the IP's to get white listed. After a lot of…

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How to add new custom categories for work item states in azure devops?
I want to create new categories for work item states in azure devops . Also is that possible to create a new workflow and map that new categories to the new workflow. Thus creating an entirely new workflow and categories in Azure Devops?

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Azure DevOps Server migration & upgrade
I am preparing for a process of migrating and upgrading our on-premise Azure DevOps Server instance. I tried to collect information on the best practices to perform these tasks, but I am still not sure, what is the best way to get this done.
What I…

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