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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Database compression issue in Azure DevOps server
Actually my database size was around 1.3tb, where I deleted some unnecessary files, builds, pipelines from the database through sql queries method in which my database is now reduced to 160GB in azure devops server, but still i am able to see the…
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From within a Build/Release pipeline, can we discover its path?
In Azure DevOps, we can organize our Build/Release definitions into high-level folders:
Example: for every pipeline that resides in the Framework folder, I want to conditionally execute a certain task. The pre-defined Build and Release variables…

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"Templates in other repositories may not specify a repository source when referencing another template" when trying advanced pipeline
I am trying to find a solution for a rather complicated Azure Devops build pipeline.
I have 3 repositories (lets call them RepoA, RepoB and RepoC) which each contain templates for jobs that need to run for builds within those repositories.
I also…

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How can I get repository resources associated with the given build in Azure DevOps using REST Api?
Please, observe the following image:
It shows a Pull Request Build summary page. There we can see the build has two repository resources. This is because the build checks out multiple repositories. The first one is self, the other one is…

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Automated Builds in single server Azure devops server
If i'm deploy azure devops server on single machine, why extensive use of automated build, test, or release likely will cause performance issues ?
thanks!

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Gitlab webhook can't be triggered on Azure DevOps Server Version 2020.1.RC2
Incoming webhook can be triggered on Azure DevOps Server Version Dev18.M170.6, but it can't be triggered on Azure DevOps Server 2020.1.RC2.
I'm getting an error message from the 2020.1.RC2:
Cannot find webhook for the given webHookId…

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How to queue a YAML build at the given build agent in Azure DevOps Server 2020 with on-prem agents?
Given:
Dozen of PR build agents
Sometimes PR build goes rogue on some agent
Our solution - queue a full build on that agent, rather than the default incremental
Now we migrated our classical PR builds to YAML and suddenly we are no longer able to…

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VSTS Task that changes project files and checks in the changes
With TFS 2015, we had made a vNext (VSTS) task that would find a selected file, substitute a token (version number is where it started,) wrote out the changes to the file, and checked the file in with a comment as to the nature of the change. It did…

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Azure DevOps Server deployment groups and tags
I'm not sure if I've stumbled across a bug or whether I am simply misinformed about how deployment groups / tags work in Azure DevOps Server 2020.
I've created a new release pipeline and configured the VSTS agent across all our servers. Each server…

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UseExistingEmptyCollectionDatabase must be set to true when creating a collection using a Managed Service Identity to authenticate with SQL
I have Azure DevOps Server 2020.0.1 installed in an Azure VM, then configured it to connect with backend SQL Azure database, I followed the Azure DevOps documents
Use Azure SQL Database with Azure DevOps Server however, it failed with below…

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Can Azure DevOps Server 2020 support a model where dev's PR build is run on the dev's machine?
We use Azure DevOps Server 2020 on prem. We are not in a position to move to Services. We are not in a position to use agents in Azure, because these agent would not be able to talk to the server, which is behind the corporate firewall.
So, we are…

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Upgrade Azure Devops Server 2019 to Azure Devops Server 2020
I am trying to Upgrade Azure Devops Server 2019 to Azure Devops Server 2020
looking for some best practice
Thanks
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Azure DevOps CD pipeline using CMD
I'm now using Azure DevOps Server to implement a Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline(Using Command Line to perform the job in Release Pipeline) with Spring Boot Java Application.
If you are developing java application, you will know that you have to use…

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What are the usage and resource limits for odata queries on Azure Devops Server 2020 on-premises?
Does Azure Devops Server 2020 (on-prem) have any limits to the number of odata queries and/or amount of data returned in odata queries (for Analytics feature)? I found this documentation,…

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Can Azure Devops Server provision hardware
I know that you can apply ARM templates to create VM's via Azure Devops Services, but can it be done on prem using Azure Devops Server?
or is it just a matter of building a pipeline with powershell to solve this?

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