Azure DevOps Server Reviews & Product Details

Azure DevOps Server, formerly known as Team Foundation Server (TFS), is a comprehensive on-premises solution developed by Microsoft for managing the entire application lifecycle. It integrates version control, project management, build automation, testing, and release management into a unified platform, facilitating collaboration among development teams. Designed to support both agile and waterfall methodologies, Azure DevOps Server enables organizations to plan, develop, test, and deliver software efficiently within their own infrastructure. Key Features and Functionality: - Version Control: Offers robust source code management through Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) and Git, allowing teams to choose between centralized or distributed version control systems. - Project Management: Provides agile planning tools, including configurable Kanban boards and backlogs, to plan, track, and discuss work across teams. - Build Automation: Enables continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to build, test, and deploy applications across various platforms and environments. - Testing: Includes manual and exploratory testing tools to ensure code quality and support the entire testing lifecycle. - Release Management: Facilitates controlled and automated deployment of applications to different environments, ensuring consistent and reliable releases. - Extensibility: Supports integration with various development environments, including Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse, and offers APIs for custom extensions. Primary Value and User Benefits: Azure DevOps Server addresses the challenges of managing complex software development projects by providing a centralized platform that enhances collaboration, streamlines workflows, and improves code quality. By integrating various development tools and processes, it reduces the overhead associated with managing multiple disparate systems. Organizations benefit from increased transparency, better project tracking, and faster delivery times, all while maintaining control over their data within their own infrastructure. This makes Azure DevOps Server particularly valuable for enterprises with strict compliance requirements or those operating in environments where cloud-based solutions are not feasible.

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

12 months

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Taniuska D.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/7/2019

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"All work from the team cloud."

4/5

What do you like best about Azure DevOps Server?

I like the use of third-party software I use API REST standards.

The marketplace has extensions with a lot of variety.

I work for free from my PC without a local server.

I share all packages with my work team.

With Azure Repos I have many GIT repositories in the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure DevOps Server?

I have no problems with this service, I like all the options, it is stable and safe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure DevOps Server:

I recommend you try this system with a team of 5 people, it is free up to this limit.

This system is perfect to work together on a project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure DevOps Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

I work as a team with everyone connected to the Cloud service, I share work packages with my work team easily, quickly and safely from my PC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Janibel R.

Software QA Automation Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/24/2019

"Team work platform"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure DevOps Server?

My opinion about Team foundation server is that it is a powerful platform for managing, organizing teams and or and to keep structured projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure DevOps Server?

What I most dislike about team foundation server is that sometimes it takes too long to load.

A few times it has get frozen and I have to wait for it to unfreeze itself or even close the browser. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure DevOps Server:

Microsoft Team Foundation Server is a great platform to use but if you team or company is still very small I don't think this will be the best option. But for a medium or big team I think this is a great suitable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure DevOps Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

With Microsoft Team Foundation Server in the project that I am working it has help the team get organized and know what each person have to do with the helps of user stories, task, bug and so on.

Also a benefits is that we can organize test cases by sprint and build or own regression selecting which test cases to include in either for the manual QA or the automated QA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/31/2019

"Works well for what we need it for"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure DevOps Server?

It's easy to use. Works well and integrates nicest with visual studio. Once you figure out the layout it really starts to shine. We only really use it for version control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure DevOps Server?

The location of buttons isn't the most intuitive. There's also a fair bit of general functionality that's missing that you would expect from a version control tool. However it's widely accepted that TFS isn't the best version control system out there. For our project it satisfies what we do. For much larger projects you'd definitely need to investigate a bit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure DevOps Server:

Do your research. It's not the best tool for version control, but the built in big tracking is great. We don't really leverage that aspect but it is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure DevOps Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

No problems at all really. Just minor annoyances sometimes, but nothing worth noting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jennifer U.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/11/2019

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Work with Azure Repos and GIT repositories in the cloud."

4/5

What do you like best about Azure DevOps Server?

I like the use of Marketplace, it has everything necessary for my project, it's simple.

Cloud repositories help a lot for my main tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure DevOps Server?

I like everything about this Microsoft service, it meets all expectations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure DevOps Server:

Try this system on your PC for free, if you need more users for your project it allows you 5 simultaneous users, take this opportunity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure DevOps Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

My work colleagues and I work connected to the same service from anywhere and PC without problem, it is easy stable and safe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

S.K S.

Smart cities research

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/30/2019

"Why change ?"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure DevOps Server?

I always Like the tree structure TFS presents. Easy to label branch merge, When integrated with visual studio the best plugins are available. I see the visibility that a bitbucket or Git presents but i think TFS still would give them a run for their money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure DevOps Server?

Administration errors are hard to fix.requires a higher level of skill to understand administration. Sometimes errors are too generic in nature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure DevOps Server:

Wait until the next version evolves.if you are already using it, i recommend continuing. if your office is expanding, look at bitbucket too as an alternative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure DevOps Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

In a small office setup TFS is brilliant with Microsoft project, in a large enterprise scale development we might have to look at other options. It does resolve your basic day to day PM SCM activities. CI/CD is a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ramya R.

Technology Lead

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/29/2019

"Microsoft TFS review"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure DevOps Server?

It helps in version controlling and management of the projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure DevOps Server?

It does not provide a tag to specify a PROD tag. The label option is present, but there is no way to search based on the label name. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure DevOps Server:

It is a great product for Version control, ticket tracking and management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure DevOps Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

Checkin , checkout options help in version controlling. Also shelveset enables the option to view the changes without actually checking them in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vikas T.

Database Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/16/2019

"Checkout the changes of the code from server to local workspace easily."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure DevOps Server?

I like about this application software is 'convenience'. We can undoubtedly make the shelveset of the progressions and contrast the local box code and most recent code of the server with no problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure DevOps Server?

Sometime, It sets aside more effort to keep the code most recent or explicit utilizing source control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure DevOps Server:

In the event that you need workspace for both server and the local box, This is valuable software. Simplicity to utilize and effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure DevOps Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

In visual studio, We use it for source control pilgrim that contains our organization's venture.It cause us to keep the most recent code from the server to our local box with the goal that we can checkout the records and changes the code according to code exists on server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Surender B.

Technical Lead at tecHangouts

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/30/2019

"Awesome platform for script handling scalable industry"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure DevOps Server?

I love Microsoft for its too good user interface and ease of use with its convenience of check in or rollback changes on server. We can make shelve set of modified script either its of c# or SQL files, we can save all in shelve set and other team member can access that too if have valid permissions. We can create create work item for each developer and attach to the change set. We can track change set later on if need to rollback it from server if we found any need of modification or any wrong change check in to server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure DevOps Server?

When dealing with TFS branching it goes quite complex but after sometime you will feel its not a headache at all. One have to planned the structure before he go for TFS branching. Shortcut creation is little bit hectic and we have to search online for the key value for setting the key shortcuts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure DevOps Server:

It is well suited for small and large scale industry when you wants to check in changes changes to server or wants to compare the changes any time. Overall its a Microsoft product on which we can believe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure DevOps Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

We make shelve set and check in the same on server once approved by authority. We can also rollback it from server so change set number is attached with each shelve set that make its quite simple to track at later stage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/11/2019

"TFS- for Deployment to development and test environments "

5/5

What do you like best about Azure DevOps Server?

TFS is fast and secured when the code is checkedin from visual studio to TFS and to test and development environments, checkins from multiple machines can be pipelined to TFS and each checkin can be pushed to lower environments for further process, versioning control is easy with TFS, if change set causes issues with dev the last executed build can be reverted in a easy manner Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure DevOps Server?

TFS is is very limited to visual studio ide and it has lot of process setup for branching and version control, TFS gets stuck with large code bas checkin Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/17/2019

"Team foundation server - helps to manage code and branch in easy and efficient way with VS."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure DevOps Server?

With TFS it's quite easy to manage , maintain code via integration with visual studio so that each developer or team member can anytime update code and all are able to access code changes at once . We can easily compare code with previous changes, check latest version, specific version of script files.

Maintaining branch is easy as all changes can be easily tracked using TFS and proper check in history is maintained as well which helps in code review process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure DevOps Server?

When branch becomes quite big and data base news to be published via TFS then it performs a bit slow but this is nothing as compared to its advantages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure DevOps Server:

Must have to makes developers life easy as it helps in code management , tracking and creating code versions as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure DevOps Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have managed our development code via TFS here we maintain source code and provide branch access to working developers so that they can use updated System all times that can be check in to branch with association of work items . That makes their work quite easy to maintain and track code changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.