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Beyond VDI: Get secure cloud dev environments with Microsoft Dev Box
Nov 19, 2024
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Beyond VDI: Get secure cloud dev environments with Microsoft Dev Box

Anthony Cangialosi
Anthony Cangialosi

Modern software development can drive innovation to new heights, but to get there, developers need tools that are built to handle today’s challenges and future ...

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Automating Developer Environments with Microsoft Dev Box and Teams Customizations
Jan 29, 2025
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Automating Developer Environments with Microsoft Dev Box and Teams Customizations

Isaac Levin
Isaac Levin

The following blog walks through the experience of defining and automating the creation of developer environments with the newly announced Teams Customizations feature in Microsoft Dev Box. This allows developer team leads or managers to define the software installed by default every time a developer creates a new environment, ensuring that every team member has the latest tools and frameworks needed to deliver on a project right away. This automates the typical process of using a combination of custom images, miscellaneous scripts, and manual configuration that is used in most organizations today. Moving to an a...

Unlock key capabilities via Generation 2 VMs in Azure DevTest Labs
Jan 28, 2025
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Unlock key capabilities via Generation 2 VMs in Azure DevTest Labs

Anish Trakru
Anish Trakru

We are excited to announce enhanced support for Generation 2 VMs on Azure DevTest Labs, now in public preview. We listened to your feedback and have improved the support for using Generation 2 VMs in Azure DevTest Labs. Generation 2 Virtual Machines (VMs) support key capabilities that are not supported in Generation 1 VMs such as increased memory, Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX), and virtualized persistent memory (vPMEM). Generation 2 VMs might have improved boot and installation times. You can now easily choose between 1 (Gen 1) and Generation 2 (Gen 2) version of the same marketplace image and...

Reduce costs with Hibernation in Azure DevTest Labs
Jan 27, 2025
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Reduce costs with Hibernation in Azure DevTest Labs

Anish Trakru
Anish Trakru

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, cost efficiency remains a top priority for platform engineers and lab users. To help organizations optimize cloud costs and management, we’re excited to introduce the Hibernation feature for virtual machines (VMs) in Azure DevTest Labs, now in public preview. The new Hibernation feature in Azure DevTest Labs helps optimize costs by pausing Virtual Machines (VMs) while preserving their state, making it easy to resume work without losing progress. Hibernation is an effective way to reduce costs and adds more flexibility to VM management. Azure DevTest Labs ha...

Introducing more secure and seamless access in Azure DevTest Labs
Nov 26, 2024
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Introducing more secure and seamless access in Azure DevTest Labs

Anish Trakru
Anish Trakru

We’re excited to announced new support in Azure DevTest labs for accessing Azure DevOps artifact repos via Managed Identities and GitHub artifact repos through GitHub app authentication. Additionally, the lab storage account can also now be accessed via Managed Identities. Until now, users have relied on Personal Access Tokens (PATs) and Storage Access Shared (SAS) tokens to connect to these resources. However, these tokens can introduce security risks if exposed, require ongoing management, and may expire unexpectedly, leading to disruptions. With Managed Identity and GitHub app authentication, development...

Introducing a new landing page and welcome tour for Microsoft developer portal!
Nov 19, 2024
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Introducing a new landing page and welcome tour for Microsoft developer portal!

Vedha
Vedha

At Microsoft, we are dedicated to shaping a developer experience that is efficient, user-friendly, and tailored to your needs. With the new landing page and welcome tour, we’re excited to empower you to work more effectively and unlock new levels of productivity. Together, we’re building a platform that evolves with you. At Microsoft, we’re focused on creating a developer experience that’s easy to use and meets your needs. Our new Dev Box landing page and welcome tour are designed to help you work efficiently and boost productivity. The updated landing page is a central hub that organizes key ...

Understanding the basics of Dev Box teams customizations
Nov 19, 2024
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Understanding the basics of Dev Box teams customizations

Fawad Khan
Fawad Khan

Streamline Your Development Workflow with Dev Box Customizations Are you looking to enhance your team's development environment? Look no further! With Microsoft Dev Box, you can now customize your development boxes to fit your team's specific needs. Let's dive into how you can leverage Dev Box customizations to streamline your workflow. What is Dev Box Customization? Dev Box customization allows development team leads to create ready-to-code configurations for their entire team. By defining tools, packages, and settings in a single configuration file, you can ensure that every team member has a consisten...

New features enhance developer experience, customizations, and security in Azure Deployment Environments
Nov 19, 2024
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New features enhance developer experience, customizations, and security in Azure Deployment Environments

Sagar Chandra Reddy Lankala
Sagar Chandra Reddy Lankala

If you’ve been following our journey with Azure Deployment Environments (ADE), you’ll know we’ve been on a mission to make the service as seamless and simple as possible to help developers access the infrastructure they need. Earlier this year at Build, we were excited to announce continued improvements to the ADE extensibility model that enable platform engineers to customize deployment with any infrastructure-as-code (IaC) framework and customize the deployments to meet your organization’s specific needs. But we’re not stopping there—we’ve continued to innovate with ADE, and today, we’re excited to announce ...

Boost security and team agility through project-level guardrails with Dev Box project policies
Nov 19, 2024
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Boost security and team agility through project-level guardrails with Dev Box project policies

Denizhan Yigitbas
Denizhan Yigitbas

As development teams embrace cloud-based tools to accelerate their workflows, managing resources securely and efficiently across different projects has become a top priority for IT pros and developers alike. Microsoft Dev Box is designed to streamline project-based development, providing developers with tailored cloud development environments optimized for productivity and collaboration. Today, we’re excited to announce a new feature, now available for preview for Microsoft Dev Box: project policies. Project policies bring a powerful new way for platform engineers to set guardrails around resources enabled on ...

Developer Productivity Services QR codes
Nov 18, 2024
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Developer Productivity Services QR codes

Fawad Khan
Fawad Khan

QR codes for Developer Productivity Services (DPS) resources: