Service Hooks queued in Azure DevOps – Alternate Solution
As you all know Service Hooks have been getting queued multiple times over the past few months. There has been instance of service hooks being queued up forever also. If you again see some...
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The pipeline is not valid. Could not get the latest source version for repository PublicWeb hosted on Azure Repos using ref refs/heads/Dev/feature/test.
Issue: Sometimes you may get an error like for no fault of yours. This error mostly occurs when the branch you are working on has been renamed or you have another branch with a...
Removing direct Assignments for a user
This is a lesser known feature where a user can be removed from different groups at once.Go to Organization Settings and Users. In the users, list of users would be displayed, click on the...
Access Levels in Azure DevOps Explained
In AzureDevOps users can have different kind of access levels based on the level they have been assigned and also based on the type of MSDN license they have.There 6 main access levels are...
Billing in AzureDevOps – A Beginner’s Guide
Billing is easy and seamless in Azure DevOps and you can purchase “Basic” licenses for any users by going to Organization Settings —> Billing You can find more articles about billing Setting up Billing...
Creating a Bug in Azure DevOps
We might have seen how to create a bug from a TestCase let us now see how to create a bug in Azure DevOps using normal methods 1. Access Azure DevOps: 2. Initiate Bug...
Automated Email Reminders for WorkItems in Azure DevOps
Though Azure DevOps doesn’t have the ability to set up Automated Email reminders, we can use PowerAutomate and queries from Azure DevOps to send some automated reminder emails to the users who have been...
error: cannot lock ref ‘refs/remotes/origin/xxx’: there is a non-empty directory ‘.git/refs/remotes/origin/xxx’ blocking reference ‘refs/remotes/origin/xxx
This issue usually occurs when there are 2 branches with conflicting names. Suppose let us say you have a branch “QA” and when you have another branch with a name something like “qa/feature/test”, then...
cannot lock refs/remotes/origin/xxx/xxxx : ‘refs/remotes/origin/xxx’ exists
This issue usually occurs when there are 2 branches with conflicting names. Suppose let us say you have a branch “Dev” and when you have another branch with a name something like “dev/hotfix”, then...
Azure VM Password restrictions
Whenever you are creating an Azure VM via Azure CLI you might have encountered an issue like the one shown below The above error messages occurs because Azure has inbuilt restrictions for the password...
