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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Where does the Azure DevOps/TFS cache extensions data
I have developed Azure DevOps extension and published it to marketplace. Recently I have came across mandatory UI changes. While performing dev testing, I have noticed that once I install new extension (with UI changes) it still showing old UI…
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Azure DevOps On-Premise - How can I stop and delete a windows service on a remote machine?
I have an existing Windows service on a remote machine.
Here is what I need to do:
Stop that service.
Delete that service.
Copy my build artifacts to the specified directory on that remote machine.
Recreate that Windows service.
Start the Windows…
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How to make a call to users graph API from Azure Devops Server
The following works for me for Azure Devops Services (cloud):
curl ... https://vssps.dev.azure.com/acme/_apis/graph/users
However, for my on-premise installation I'm getting 404 for all following options:
curl ...…
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Need a list of TFS versions (numbers) and their mapping to TFS 2019 updates
Our installed version is 17.143.28621.4 (2019 on premise).
The team that installed it is not sure which update was downloaded.
I checked the latest version
and cannot find version 17.143.28621.4 in the available downloads.
Could not find any page…
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When I pass the variable(path) in azure devops server shell script task, path prints without "/"
I am using the Azure DevOps server pipeline shell script task when I passed the "$(Build.SourcesDirectory)" variable as a shell script arguments, I found the path is not getting "/" while printing the variable.
Here is the Azure DevOps Pipeline…
Dharti Sutariya
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Unable to migrate TFVC to GIT from other collection of project
In Azure DevOps Server 2019 (on premise), we have one collection of project with one BIG project.
But perfomance are really bad.
We want to split this BIG project in many little project :
One collection of project by team
One project by product
I…
vernou
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Azure DevOps Server 2019 - Rules, make required attachments on state change
I'm new using Azure DevOps Server and i having some problems creating rules.
I'm trying to make a rule that doesn't allow the user to change the state of a Feature on the Board if this Feature doesn't have any attachment on it.
The rule i created is…
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Exporting work item definition fails in Azure Devops 2019
I get the following error when I try to export a work item witadmin in Azure DevOps 2019
witadmin exportwitd /collection: /p:AutoRI /n:Bug /f:\exported1.xml
The feature is disabled. Contact your Azure…
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Azure DevOps Server: Why does a Visual Studio Test step take so long to run unit tests?
In an Azure DevOps Server build system installed on premises, I have a Build Pipeline with a Visual Studio Test step. The step is configured to discover and run XUnit unit tests in a DLL.
The step is defined via the GUI. Here are its…
urig
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Azure DevOps how to edit Wiki page via REST API
I want to edit a Azure DevOps wiki page over the REST API (Azure DevOps Server 2019.0.1).
When I run this PowerShell script:
#VARIABLES
$api = "api-version=5.0"
$root = "http://136.202.18.216:8070/Samples"
$personalToken =…
Mar Tin
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TFS Upgrade to Azure DevOps - TF246017 and other access problems
I'm trying to upgrade from TFS 2018 Update 3 to Azure DevOps but several thing are not working and I'm definitely losing my temper so far, especially because Wizard went all green after all.
Problem 1) I'm one of the admin entitled to manage TFS,…
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How to enable analytics in TFS
Azure devops has in-built analytics support.I tried to pull some extensions for enabling analytics in on premise TFS without much luck. How analytics can be enabled in on -premise TFS?
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Show differences of file that has been moved and changed in pull request in azure devops web UI
Imagine you use git and have to review a pull request in which you have a file X1 containing one class (e.g C#) and one method. Now it was moved from one project P1 or folder to another P2 (which would change the namespace) and another method was…
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Azure Devops Server 2019 - Powershell@2 task does not run when Start-Process cmdlet is used with -Credential option
I use Azure Devops Server 2019 ( On prem). I have a YAML build pipeline where I need to execute a command (mycmd.exe) as a different user than the one running the Azure agent. I use the PowerShell@2 task and tried the following using -Credential…
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In TFS/Azure DevOps (TFVC) Is there a way to break a merge relationship between folders?
My company has some folders in Azure DevOps Server 2019 (TFVC) where we encounter merge issues.
When we try to merge the changes from child folder X of Branch A to child folder X in Branch B, it wants to merge it to child folder Y in Branch B…
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