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Apr 21, 2026
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Azure DevOps MCP Server April Update

Dan Hellem

This update brings a set of improvements and changes across both local and remote Azure DevOps MCP Servers. Here’s a summary of what’s changed. Query work items with WIQL We’ve introduced a new tool that enables users to construct and run work item WIQL queries. For our remote MCP, to ensure reliability and performance, access to this tool is c...

Azure & Cloud
Apr 1, 2026
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Improving the Markdown Editor for Work Items

Dan Hellem

We introduced the Markdown editor in July 2025 to bring Markdown support to large text fields in work items. Since then, we’ve received valuable customer feedback highlighting challenges with the editing experience, particularly when switching in and out of edit mode. Many users found the current interaction model confusing and, at times, disrupti...

Azure & Cloud
Mar 19, 2026
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Remote MCP Server preview in Microsoft Foundry

Dan Hellem

Earlier this week we release the public preview for our Azure DevOps MCP Server. Today we are excited to let you know that the Azure DevOps MCP Server is now available to use in Microsoft Foundry. For those who are new to Foundry, Microsoft Foundry is a unified platform for building and managing AI powered applications and agents at scale. It brin...

Azure & Cloud
Mar 17, 2026
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Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server (public preview)

Dan Hellem

When we released the local Azure DevOps MCP Server, it gave customers a way to connect Azure DevOps data with tools like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code through GitHub Copilot Chat. The next step was to make this experience easier to get started with and to enable it for services that support only remote MCP servers. The Remote MCP Server is ...

Azure & Cloud
Feb 27, 2026
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Updates to Team Calendar extension

Dan Hellem

We are excited to release a new update to the Team Calendar extension. This update includes a series of visual refinements across the extension, introducing a more consistent design language, smoother transitions when expanding and collapsing sections, improved contrast for better readability, an updated color palette aligned with Azure DevOps, an...

Azure & Cloud
Feb 18, 2026
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TFVC Remove Existing Obsolete Policies ASAP

Dan Hellem

In April 2025, we announced the deprecation schedule for legacy TFVC check-in policies. This change was required due to limitations in how those policies were previously implemented and stored. The old policies have been marked as obsolete, and you can replace them by selecting the equivalent updated policy. We are currently in Phase II of this tr...

Azure & Cloud
Feb 16, 2026
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Condensed views on Kanban and Sprint boards

Dan Hellem

One of the challenges teams face when working with large boards or displaying multiple fields on work item cards is limited screen space. This became even more noticeable with the rollout of the New Boards hub, which introduced additional spacing and padding for improved readability. While this enhances clarity, it can also reduce the number of car...

Azure & Cloud
Dec 19, 2025
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Work item linking for Advanced Security alerts now available

Laura Jiang

Security vulnerabilities don't fix themselves. Someone needs to track them, prioritize them, and actually ship the fix. If you've ever tried to manage security alerts alongside your regular sprint work, though, you know the friction: you're looking at an alert in one tab, switching to your backlog in another, trying to remember which vulnerability ...

DevOpsAzure & CloudSecurity
Nov 4, 2025
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Azure Developer CLI: Azure Container Apps Dev-to-Prod Deployment with Layered Infrastructure

PuiChee (PC) Chan

This post walks through how to implement "build once, deploy everywhere" patterns using Azure Container Apps with the new and layered infrastructure features in Azure Developer CLI v1.20.0. You'll learn how to deploy the same containerized application across multiple environments with proper separation of concerns. This is the third installment i...

Azure & CloudDevOpsCI/CD
May 26, 2023
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Improved Flaky Test Management in Azure Pipelines

Ravi Kumar

In software development, testing is an integral part of the development process. Tests are used to verify that software behaves as expected, and they ensure that changes made to the code do not break existing functionality. However, there is a problem that often arises when running automated tests: Flaky tests. Flaky tests are tests that produce d...

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