Notes on Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, Azure Virtual Desktop, Entra ID, and the rest of Azure.https://iacworks.com/https://iacworks.com/blog/azure-pipelines-this-week-august-8-2026/https://iacworks.com/blog/azure-pipelines-this-week-august-8-2026/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.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://iacworks.com/blog/azure-pipelines-august-2026/https://iacworks.com/blog/azure-pipelines-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.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://iacworks.com/blog/azure-pipelines-news-july-2026/https://iacworks.com/blog/azure-pipelines-news-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.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://iacworks.com/blog/benefits-of-azure-virtual-desktop/https://iacworks.com/blog/benefits-of-azure-virtual-desktop/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.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMThttps://iacworks.com/blog/welcome-to-the-iacworks-blog/https://iacworks.com/blog/welcome-to-the-iacworks-blog/What to expect here: practical notes on Azure DevOps pipelines and the wider Azure ecosystem, from the team actually building and running them.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT