I am looking for a way to store a global variable (password) that can be used with all Team Projects in our TFS collection. This will be used in our build/release process. Currently we are on TFS 2017.3 but plan on upgrading to Azure DevOps 2019 soon.
I've tried using the Library and variable groups in TFS, but these must be entered for each team project which we have over 200 of.
Currently there is not out-of-the-box option like this.
There is a feature request here with a lot of up-votes, so I hope Microsoft will add this useful feature soon.
After you upgrade to Azure DevOps server, you can use the Azure Key Vault task to pull data from Azure Key Vault. You can have as many Vaults as you like and use in one or all Projects.
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I have deployment Azure Analysis Service from Visual Studio SSDT (2017) which I'am create new solution with Import From Server (Tabular Existing from Azure Analysis Service Model). in properties model we have input the correct model and server.
After deploy, I have duplicate model with generate character like this:
So, I have 2 model with same table, row, measure ..
my goal is model is deployment
Thanks for advice.
The database name with the format of <project name>_<user ID>_<GUID> is created when you have the Workspace server setting in your Visual Studio solution set to the Server.
It is just a temporary one, which is used when you work on your Visual Studio solution.
If you don't want it, you can use the Integrated workspace option.
The official documentation of this setting is here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/analysis-services/tabular-models/workspace-database-ssas-tabular?view=asallproducts-allversions
When you create a new tabular model project, you specify an Analysis Services server instance to use while authoring your project:
Integrated workspace - Recommended. Utilizes Visual Studio's own internal instance. Use this setting when creating a project that will be deployed to Azure Analysis Services.
Workspace server - A workspace database is created on an explicit instance, often on the same computer as Visual Studio or another computer in the same network. While you can specify an Azure Analysis Services server, it's not recommended. Using a Power BI workspace as the Workspace server is not supported.
Found from migration options doc that manual migration is possible .But for azure Devops server 2019 pipelines and history migrate to azure Devops services? is there any tools to do that?
for azure Devops server 2019 pipelines and history migrate to azure Devops services? is there any tools to do that?
You could try to use the Azure devops extension Migration Tools for Azure DevOps, which allow you to migrate Teams, Work Items, and Plans & Suits from one Project to another in Azure DevOps/TFS both within the same Organization, and between Organizations. But this without history and This tool is complicated and its not always easy to discover what you need to do.
If you insist on keeping the history, you could also try to use the 3rd tool OpsHub Visual Studio Online Migration Utility. It migrates historical information for work items, version control change sets, test cases, test results, and all the relationships between two tools in an incremental manner.
Note: No matter which tool is used, or manual migration, we may not be able to get results were not a perfect copy, but overall the results were actable.
It might sound backwards, but we have a need to move a Azure Devops project of epic's, User stores tasks etc, as well as all existing comments, links, and dependencies to a TFS environment, can this tool do that?
Yes you can using the Azure DevOps Migration Tools.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nkdagility.vsts-sync-migration
I originally felt this question was for Software Engineering, but they've closed it as off topic and sent me here, so here I am.
One of the biggest time sinks when doing the odd piece of DB development is setting up the environment locally, often my process goes like so:
Get database
Publish db server
Publish db
Load test data
Repeat for any dependencies (can go 3-4 levels deep)
This is a bit of a pain really, and can take a while, and I was thinking if there are any ways to automate this.
We make use of ADO, and through ADO we run builds that deploy our changes and load out test data to make sure we haven't broke anything. Now I imagine ADO follows a very similar process to myself like above, and reviewing the build it looks something like so:
Now, I'd love it if I could get access to the script that runs this, so that when I start development, it gets rid of all the above down-time of setting up the environment.
Does anyone know a way to do this? Or perhaps have any other recommendations?
No, it's unable to copy the build to run locally. They are all based on the existing tasks (see Build and release tasks and azure-pipelines-tasks ).
However, you can try to develop your own scripts by calling the corresponding tools for each step, then combine them together.
Alternately you could setup a private agent on your develop machine, then you can build with this private agent with that build definition.
Another way is setup a on-premise Azure DevOps server, thus you can export the definition from your Azure DevOps Service and import to the on-premise Azure DevOps server to use the definition directly.
At my company we are currently using TFS 2010 which has installed on-premise and we are developing application on it that it is contiouusly being deployed on Microsoft Azure platform.
Our plan is to upgrade our TFS 2010 to version TFS 2015 and host it on a VM on our Azure subscription since this will ease our continuous deployment speed very much by removing network latency, in addition we will be able to use TFS new features.
Question I have is,
What do we have to do to move all TFS project work items, user stories and source code to successfully finish this move and upgrade process.
Before you give your answers, please take into account that we also want to create a local users on new TFS server and map domain users which they are created on the company's active directory server, on Azure VM and during TFS movement we would like to be able to show moved changesets, workitems... everything have been created in TFS database with the newly created local users on the Azure VM.
Firstly, please have a check on this blog for the details on how to do migration upgrade for TFS: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tfssetup/archive/2013/12/19/migration-upgrade-from-tfs-2012-to-tfs-2013-with-reporting-and-sharepoint.aspx (This blog is about how to upgrade from TFS2012 to TFS2013, it applies to TFS2010 to TFS2015 as well)
Then after the TFS server is moved/upgraded successfully, create a user on Azure.