Reparent Work Items in the UI If you are reparenting only a few work items, then the easiest way is to use the Mapping view in the Azure DevOps backlog, as described by Microsoft: Enabling the m...
Azure DevOps: Bulk Reparent Work Items
Authorize and Restore Azure Artifacts NuGet Packages in GitHub Actions
Summary While this post is geared towards Azure DevOps and Azure Artifacts, this approach will work for any third-party feed that requires authentication (like Artifactory!). I needed to be able ...

Quickly Migrate NuGet Packages to a New Feed
Summary This is a very simple bash script that can assist you in migrating NuGet packages to a different Artifact feed. It’s written with Azure DevOps in mind as a target, but there’s no reason wh...

GitHub: Block Pull Request if Code Scanning Alerts Are Found
Overview After virtually attending GitHub Universe last week and watching the GitHub Advanced Security round-up and Catching vulnerabilities early with GitHub sessions, it got me thinking: How do ...
Azure DevOps: Extends Template with Build and Deployment Templates
Scenario I had a client that wanted to integrate a secret scanning utility (among other checks) into the pipeline, and enforce this control. Colin Dembovsky (my co-worker) and I typically recommen...