| title | titleSuffix | description | ms.custom | ms.technology | ms.assetid | ms.author | author | ms.topic | monikerRange | ms.date |
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Manage preview features |
Azure DevOps Services |
Enable/disable or activate/deactivate features in preview at the user or organization level |
Navigation |
devops-collab |
FB4E044D-B916-4901-A322-C87C3581A90A |
kaelli |
KathrynEE |
how-to |
>= azure-devops-2020 |
01/19/2022 |
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As new features are introduced, you can turn them on or off. That way, you can try them out, provide feedback, and work with those features that meet your requirements.
Some preview features provide access to entire new functionality. Others, such as the New Wiki experience, reflect a change to the user interface, but little or no change in functionality.
Note
It may take up to three weeks after a release to Azure DevOps Services for the preview feature to appear in your organization. The latest release notes usually provide information on new preview features. You can turn on or off select features for Azure DevOps Services. Preview features become available first on Azure DevOps Services and then become standard features with an update to Azure DevOps Server. At some point, the preview feature moves out of preview status and becomes a regular feature of the web portal.
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There are a few features you or an administrator can enable or disable. Some features provide access to entire new functionality, while others provide a change to the user interface.
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The follow table indicates which preview features can be enabled per user or team member, and those that can be enabled for the organization. You must be a member of the Project Collection Administrators group to change a preview feature at the organization-level.
:::row::: :::column span="3"::: Preview features :::column-end::: :::column span=".5"::: Per user :::column-end::: :::column span=".5"::: Per organization :::column-end::: :::row-end:::
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:::column span="3":::
Analytics Views
Copy Dashboard Experience
Dependency Tracker Preview Features
Experimental themes
Full Access to Azure Pipelines for Stakeholders
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:::column span=".5":::
✔️
✔️
✔️
✔️
:::column-end:::
:::column span=".5":::
✔️
✔️
✔️
✔️
✔️
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:::row-end:::
:::row:::
:::column span="3":::
Historical graph for agent pools
Limit user visibility and collaboration to specific projects
New account manager
New Artifacts (Feeds) Experience (accessbility updates)
New Boards Hubs
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:::column span=".5":::
✔️
✔️
✔️
✔️
:::column-end:::
:::column span=".5":::
✔️
✔️
✔️
✔️
✔️
:::column-end:::
:::row-end:::
:::row:::
:::column span="3":::
New boards reports
New release progress views
New service connections experience
New Settings Search in the organization settings panel
New Teams page
:::column-end:::
:::column span=".5":::
✔️
✔️
✔️
✔️
✔️
:::column-end:::
:::column span=".5":::
✔️
✔️
✔️
✔️
✔️
:::column-end:::
:::row-end:::
:::row:::
:::column span="3":::
New Wiki experience
Organization Permissions Settings Page v2
Project Permissions Settings page
Task Insights for Failed Pipeline Runs
YAML templates editor
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:::column span=".5":::
✔️
✔️
✔️
✔️
✔️
:::column-end:::
:::column span=".5":::
✔️
✔️
✔️
✔️
✔️
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:::row-end:::
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::: moniker range="azure-devops-2020" The follow table indicates those features that you can enable as a user, project administrator, or project collection administrator. These preview features are only available to manage for Azure DevOps Server 2020 RTW.
:::row::: :::column span="2"::: Feature :::column-end::: :::column span="1"::: User :::column-end::: :::column span="1"::: Project :::column-end::: :::column span="1"::: Collection :::column-end::: :::row-end:::
:::row:::
:::column span="2":::
New service connections experience
Selective artifacts download feature for collection/project
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:::column span="1":::
✔️
:::column-end:::
:::column span="1":::
✔️
:::column-end:::
:::column span="1":::
✔️
✔️
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From time to time, a new feature is introduced in Preview mode, which allows you to turn it on or off.
To access the Preview features options, open your profile menu. The profile menu appears as shown below based on whether the New Account Manager feature has been enabled or not. The New Account Manager preview feature turns on enhanced user interface options for managing account information. The menu options move under the User settings icon from where they were previously under the Account manager for your account icon.
Choose :::image type="icon" source="../../media/icons/user-settings-gear.png" border="false"::: User settings, and then choose Preview features.
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Choose Account manager for your account and then choose Preview features.
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To enable or disable a feature, choose the slider.
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For information on other user settings and preferences, see Set user preferences.
When you enable a feature at the organization level, you essentially turn it on for all users of your account. Each user can then disable the feature if they so choose. If you disable a feature at the organization level, user settings are not changed. Users can enable or disable the feature on their own.
Tip
If you don't see the for this account menu option, then you aren't a member of the Project Collection Administrators group. To get added as one, see Change project collection-level permissions.
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Open your profile menu by choosing your image icon and select Manage features.
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Select the level from the menu provided.
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If you don't see the for this project or for this collection menu options, then you aren't an administrator. To get added as one, see Change project collection-level permissions. -
To enable or disable a feature, choose the slider.
User-level
:::image type="content" source="media/manage-features/manage-features-user-2020.png" alt-text="Manage features for the user":::Project-level
:::image type="content" source="media/manage-features/manage-features-project-2020.png" alt-text="Manage features for the project":::Collection-level
:::image type="content" source="media/manage-features/manage-features-collection-2020.png" alt-text="Manage features for the collection":::
When you enable a feature at the project or collection-level, you essentially turn it on for all users. If you disable a feature at the project or collection-level, user settings are not changed. Users can enable or disable the feature on their own.
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When you select Theme from the Profile menu you can select between Dark and Light themes for the display of Azure DevOps web portal.
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With Experimental themes enabled, you can select among a number of additional themes.
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- Pipeline decorators
- Multi-stage pipelines
- Test tab in new web platform
- Test analytics in new web platform
- New builds hub
- Build with multiple queues
- New Releases Hub
- Approval gates in releases - New Release Definition Editor
- Symbol server
- Task tool installers
- New Delivery Plans Experience
- Enable group by tags for work item chart widget on dashboard
- New Rich Text Editor- New Queries Experience
- New Work Items
- New TFVC pages
- Git Forks
- New Repos pull request experience
- New Repos settings experience
- New Repos landing pages
- Pull Request Status Policy
- Wiki
- Combine email recipients
- New experience in Code, Work Item, & Wiki search
- Out of the box notifications
- Team expansion for notifications
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