The public preview of the MemberOf rule operator is ending

The retirement date is November 3rd, 2026, except of course if your tenant has Microsoft Entra ID Governance then you have until March 31, 2027. If you're not sure check the message center of your tenant for MC1488839. As a backup solution for groups when they are converted from Dynamic to … Continue reading →

Creating YAML Templates for Flyway CLI in Azure DevOps

I was lucky enough to work on a project recently. They chose to use Redgate Flyway Enterprise instead of Redgate SQL Change Automation which was quite exciting. Their goal was to deploy database changes to Azure SQL where they had several different environments (dev, test, staging and … Continue reading →

Azure DevOps Server 2022 RC1 Upgrade Notes

For those of you thinking about upgrading to the latest available version of the on-premises server (RC1), I wanted to post about my experiences with an upgrade from TFS 2018. Server OS requirements Group Selected Clauses Deployment Groups Update Max Attachment Size [Updated … Continue reading →

Copy files on the target server back to the Azure DevOps Agent

I was asked yesterday about copying files from a remote computer back to the computer running the Azure DevOps Agent. I've never had a requirement for something like this but hey, I love a challenge and it turned out to be simpler than I originally thought due to the fact that Copy-Item supports … Continue reading →

Visual Studio Installer – Update Channels

Visual Studio Installer not only allows you to manage all the different versions of Visual Studio you have installed on your workstation, you can also manage the channels for each of your products. For example Visual Studio 2019 allows you to select from the following update channels in update … Continue reading →

Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Awesomeness

DevOps like 10!? Turn your DevOps up to 11!