HTTP 403 when publishing NuGet package to VSTS Package Management

For one of our customers I am setting up CI builds that automatically publish NuGet packages to their private feed in VSTS Package Management (https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/package/overview). They are in the process of splitting up their monolithic Web Application into pieces and this is one of the steps we are taking.

Creating a Service Endpoint in Visual Studio Online fails with “User does not have required permissions for the service endpoint”

Today I was adding another (generic) Service Endpoint to Visual Studio Online in order to integrate one of our Team Projects with SonarQube. This Service Endpoint is the link that describes how the Build should connect to SonarQube. While creating it I got an error “User does not have required permissions for the service endpoint”

Release Management – 0 minute timeout

Although, for Release Management, Microsoft is focusing on agentless deployments, quite a lot of early-adopters are still bound to deployments using the Microsoft Deployment Agent. Debugging problems with these deployments is sometimes hard, because the error messages are not always descriptive for the actual problem.