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Practical notes on Azure DevOps pipelines, Azure Virtual Desktop, and the Azure fundamentals behind them. New posts every few days.

• This week in Azure Pipelines: simpler REST calls, and a slipped roadmap date

  8 August 2026

  Azure Pipelines can now call Azure DevOps REST APIs without a workaround service connection, and Managed DevOps Pools' Instance Mix feature has quietly slipped from July to August.

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• What to look forward to in August: Azure Pipelines

  3 August 2026

  Two Managed DevOps Pools features landing this month (manual agent recycling, custom startup scripts), a couple of Pipelines items further out on Microsoft's Q3 roadmap, and a reminder on the NTLM deprecation from last month's post.

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• Azure Pipelines: what's new in July 2026

  31 July 2026

  Three real Azure Pipelines changes worth knowing about this month: multiple VM sizes for Managed DevOps Pools, a Windows ARM64 self-hosted agent in preview, and an NTLM deprecation that affects on-prem Azure DevOps Server.

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• The benefits of Azure Virtual Desktop, for companies big and small

  29 July 2026

  Why Azure Virtual Desktop is worth a serious look whether you're a five-person team or a five-thousand-person enterprise: security, cost control, scalability, and remote work, without the usual infrastructure headache.

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• Welcome to the IACWorks blog

  29 July 2026

  What to expect here: practical notes on Azure DevOps pipelines and the wider Azure ecosystem, from the team actually building and running them.

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