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 2022. Use this tag for questions on the on-prem version, as opposed to Azure DevOps Service, which is the cloud version.
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Cannot switch user after upgrade from Azure Devops Server 2019 to 2020.1.2
After the upgrade from Azure DevOps Server 2019 to 2020.1.2, it is impossible to switch users. Currently, this is being tested on a test ADS server
Original version:
Edition: Azure DevOps Server 2019
Product Version: 17.153.29522.3 (AzureDevOps2019…

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Azure DevOps Server 2020.1 analytics issue related to iteration creation
When we're trying to look at the burn down report we face the error "Iteration not found. Information about this iteration could not be found on the analytics service. If this iteration was recently created, please reload shortly."
Investigating…
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Create work item on failed build: Enviroment Variables set during build are ignored
During a build we use a powershell script to retrieve our current iteration path. This iteration path should be used to create a work item if the build fails.
try
{
$Uri = "https://.../" +…

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Powershell commands for Process Template Editor and DevOps similar to PowerTools and TFS
I was able to run the following commands in Powershell with PowerTools and TFS. What are the equivalent Powershell commands for Process Template Editor and DevOps please? Or is there any other way of doing this in Powershell with DevOps Server…

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Migrating information from TFS Collections to ADOS Collections
My organization formerly used TFS, but has now upgraded to the latest version of ADOS 2020. There are several things that collections that were created after switching to Azure DevOps Server 2020 can do that still involve a process on our…
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Azure DevOps - Is there a way to restrict A Deployment until all previous stages of the pipeline successfully complete?
As written deploy pipelines can be pushed manually. I want to know if there is a way to stop the deploy from happening unless all pervious stages are done.
For example if I push deploy on Production, the Production deploy should check that Dev,…

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GIT fails "fatal: Authentication failed" (offline scenario)
When connecting to my git repo I have to add authentication header
git -c http.extraHeader="Authorization: Basic $b64pat" pull
instead of
git pull that fails
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://xxxap01/xxxApps/xxxPreview/_git/xxxPreview/
This…

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Azure DevOps Web Hooks - How to limit history/logging
I started using Web Hooks in Azure DevOps and was curious, if there's a way to limit history to an x amount of days/events and/or disable Detailed logging.
I subscribed to events like Build completed and Work item updated, which are generating a…

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Error when creating a pipeline. "You don’t appear to have an active Azure subscription."
I'm getting an error when I try to create a pipeline in our Azure DevOps. I've created a service connection for Azure US Gov to Azure Resource Manager that seems to have verified and saved successfully. Tried different browsers / incognito mode with…

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Send Mail Job hangs in Azure DevOps Server
We are running Azure DevOps Server 2020 Update 1.2
For the second time this month, the email notification system stopped working.
The test email function still works though, so the smtp server details are good.
Restarting the background job agent…

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Azure DevOps on-premise cannot verify Kubernetess service connection
I am creating New Kubernetes service connection in Azure DevOps Server 2020 Update 1 via KubeConfig.
When I click to Verify that the connection it says that Verification Failed with the generic error:
Failed to query service connection API:…

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Assign branch policies to newly created repository in new project
I am currently in the process of automating the creation of a repository within a project. So far I have been successful in creating the repository, creating a main/development branch and placing prerequisite files into the respective branches.
Now…
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How to fix excessively large size of unpacked object files in Git (with GitLFS)?
I'm having an odd issue with Git on my Azure Devops build agents. We have a large repo that is using GitLFS, while GitLFS prunes keep the size of .git/lfs/objects down, some of our environments have begun accumulating massive numbers and sizes of…

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How to list permissions in source control for Azure DevOps Server
I need to review all source code permissions on a particular folder structure. I have gone through the apis and can't find what I need or haven't figured out how to use them correctly yet.
I have also tried the tfssecurity command but, can't figure…

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Multi-Domain permissions problem using Azure Devops Server Build Agent running a PowerShell script
We just upgraded from TFS 2017 to ADS 2020. The ADS runs in one domain and the build server runs in another. All appropriate cross-domain permissions are set up - these domains talk all of the time every day.
I had a service account created for the…

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