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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. Use this tag for questions on the on-prem version, as opposed to Azure DevOps Service, which is the cloud version.

Azure DevOps Server (previously known as TFS - Team Foundation Server) is the home for your project data in the cloud and provided by Microsoft.

Questions about Azure DevOps Server may be more appropriate at one of the other Stack Exchange sites, such as

Azure DevOps includes:

  • Azure pipelines CI/CD that works with any language, platform, and cloud. Connect to GitHub, Azure Repos or any Git repository and deploy continuously.
  • Azure boards Powerful work tracking with Kanban boards, backlogs, team dashboards, and custom reporting.
  • Azure artifacts Maven, npm, and NuGet package feeds from public and private sources.
  • Azure repos Git repos for your project. Collaborative pull requests, advanced file management, and more.
  • Azure test plans All in one planned and exploratory testing solution.

Updates

The current cadence of Azure DevOps Server releases is annual, with versions named by the year they were released (Azure DevOps Server 2019, Azure DevOps Server 2020 etc.). Feature timeline for both on-prem and cloud version can be found here

Tag usage

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Error TF401444 when calling TFS Server REST API with a PAT (personal access token)

I have created a PAT token for my user account in TFS Server 2017 (on-premises, not VSTS). Using Postman I am attempting to call the following REST API with Basic Auth: GET http://{server:port}/tfs/DefaultCollection/_apis/projects?api-version=1.0 In…
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DevOps Server 2019.0.1 (Azure DevOps Error - TF30063: You are not authorized to access tfs.)

After updating from TFS 2018 v3 to DevOps Server 2019.0.1 last weekend I now receive this authentication error when attempting to manage security: TF30063: You are not authorized to access tfs. I receive this error when attempting to manage security…
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Where does Azure Artifacts code get stored in On-Premise solutions?

We have an On-Premise version of TFS 2018. I am interested in utilizing the packages (now Azure Artifacts) feature within TFS. I am wondering where the source code of the packages that are built and deployed gets stored. For example, if I build a…
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How can I use a custom work item when creating a "Bug" from a test failure in Azure Devops Server?

Background We are using Azure DevOps Server 2020 at our company. (Version Azure DevOps Server 2020 Update 1.1, installed from here) We are using the XML process workflow with customized workitems, as well as a yaml pipeline configuration that runs…
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How to synchronize sequentially different jobs in a single YAML build?

We use Azure DevOps Server 2020 (on-prem). Rationale Our PR build takes a long time to build. With msbuild /m:4 flag it takes about 45 minutes to build from clean. The pipeline is configured to clean the outputs and run git clean before the build…
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How to build azure pipeline tasks from https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks locally and consume them in an on-prem Azure DevOps Server?

So I cloned their repository, but how do I actually build the tasks? Here is my scenario. We use Azure DevOps Server 2020 (on prem). All of our build pipelines run the Index Sources & Publish Symbols task However, it has a bug…
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Create task automatically when creating bug in Azure Devops Server

We are using Azure Devops Server. When a bug is created, I would like to create a child task automatically. The task does not need to have any particular properties, it just need to be created with default values and have a default name like…
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Use Azure Devops Git Api to view UML file in browser

In our team, we follow the docs-as-code approach, and have some plantUML files in our git repository, which is hosted by an azure devops server (i.e., on premise). Now we want to serve the UML diagrams as hyperlinks on another website. The idea is…
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Dynamics 365 OnPremise + VPN = CI/CD process within AzureDevOps

welcome community. currently, our customer has Dynamics 365 On-premise infrastructure, additionally more connected applications to CRM. All is available thru VPN. Case is to implement CI/CD process. i would like to use AzureDevOps Cloud. Code…
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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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Best practice for supporting small/personal projects/repos on Azure DevOps (on premises)

I am setting up a on premises instance of Azure DevOps 2019 and have read over the guide for planning the organizational structure. In our situation, having a single organization and several projects and teams seems to be the most appropriate…
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Is it possible to customize Steps of Test Case work item?

I'm using Azure DevOps Server 2019 update 1.1 on premises. I'd like to customize Steps of Test Case work item described here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/test/create-test-cases?view=azure-devops-2019#create-test-cases For…
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Since upgrade, on-prem AzureDevops Server 2019 is retaining 10x build data in dbo.tbl_content

My on-prem, Azure DevOps 2019's backups are showing an unsubstainable increase in size of the .mdf file query1 shows that it's the "dbo.tbl_content" table query2 shows that it's "FileContainer" at 112GB. query3 shows that it's pipelines://b …
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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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