Enhance Collaboration of Your Team Using Azure DevOps Service Hooks and MS Teams

One of the main characteristic of a successful team is a strong communication and collaboration between the team members. There are many tools that we can use to build up this bond between the team members. Each and every team member need to knows the latest status of the team progress. Hence, development teams use different tools to update their teams. Microsoft Teams is one of the most known team's collaboration tool. Most teams use MS Teams to share documents and  to conduct the team discussions. This post will discuss more advanced use of the Microsoft teams by integrating it with the Azure DevOps.

Mainly Azure DevOps can be used to track requirements, source control, task management, build and release management, maintain artifacts and test management. If you are using Azure DevOps in your projects, you can update your team members about the process events in the Azure DevOps using Azure DevOps service hooks. Let’s look at how to configure connection between Azure DevOps and Microsoft teams to receive notifications from the Azure DevOps projects.

Let's get started.

Prerequisites:

• Azure DevOps project with build pipelines
• Microsoft Teams project

Steps:

• Go to Microsoft teams. Select the team.

• Click on the three dot area in front of the team name

• A context menu will open. Select the Connectors option in the context menu.

• Popup window will open.
• Find Azure DevOps under category section.

• Then you can Install the Azure DevOps add-on to the MS Teams.

• Now that we have installed Azure DevOps connector. Click on configure button in front of the Azure DevOps. Configuration window will open. You can add different configurations using this window.

1 - Select the Azure DevOps Account

2 - Select the Azure DevOps organization

3 - Projects under the selected organization will be listed, You can select the project from the list which you need to receive the notifications to the MS Teams.

4 - Select the project team which you need to receive the notifications to the MS Teams.

5 - You can select the different events from the list. In this sample, we have selected Build Completed event. You can find the different events available as shown in the following image.

6 - After you select the event as build completed, you would be able to see the drop down where you can select the build definition. All the build definitions available in the selected project are listed under build definition section.

7 -Select the build status when you need to send the notification. You can send notifications for succeeded builds, partially succeeded builds, failed and stopped builds.

• Save the configurations.
• So far, we have configured the Azure DevOps project to send project build success notifications to MS Teams. Let's move to the selected project and trigger a selected build definition.
  

• Once the build completed successfully go back to Microsoft teams. You would be able to see the build succeed notification received in MS Teams.

You can navigate to the succeed build by clicking on the notification on the MS Teams wall. This is a very easy and accurate implementation to keep you team up to date on the events occurs in the Azure DevOps via MS Teams to enhance the team collaboration and communication.