Before you can assign work items to a sprint (or an iteration) in Azure DevOps, someone needs to create those sprints. That boring task is a great candidate for delegation. Unfortunately, the only role that can do this work by default is the project administrator. Before you turn everyone into a project administrator, let me …
We created a new build agent pool for Visual Studio 2022 in Azure DevOps. To check if everything works, we temporarily switched jobs to the new agent pool. That worked for most jobs, but not for all. A few where stubborn and keep running on the old agent pool. How can that be? As it …
Last week I run into the strangest problem with Azure DevOps since we started using it in 2015. From one day to the next, one of our local build servers took massively more time to do its work. Build steps that took 30 seconds now run for 10 minutes, some even for more than an …
Last week we run into a strange problem with our build server. We use Azure DevOps with a local build machine. Everything worked as expected on Monday, yet on Tuesday without any changes on our part the CI job failed with this problem: WARNING: Unable to find version ‘2.7.1’ of package ‘Serilog’. WARNING: Unable to …
Over the last weeks I run in to constant login problems with my Git repositories hosted in Azure DevOps. One day everything works, the next day I cannot connect. I seems as if Microsoft is pushing more actively the move to personal access tokens and the older approach with alternate credentials comes to an end. …
Let’s Encrypt offers free SSL certificates to protect the traffic between your website and the visitors. They are as good as the expensive commercial ones, but they need to be renewed every three months – thanks to automation, this is not a problem. I use Let’s Encrypt for all my sites and never had any …