AZ468062 - Public Preview: Empowering teams with new features in Microsoft Dev Box

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Published

Nov 19, 2024

Status

In preview

Timeline

  • November 2024
    Preview

Product

Microsoft Dev Box

Tag

Features
Microsoft Ignite

Category

Developer tools
DevOps
Virtual desktop infrastructure

Description


We're announcing new features in Dev Box that make it easier to configure task-based workstations for development teams and enhance project guardrails.  

Cloud-based development environment for teams 

  • Team customizations: Dev team leads can create project-based configurations for their entire team, with the tools, packages and settings in a single config file. (Preview) 
  • Run-as-user support for team customizations enable team leads to execute as-user customizations for more ready-to-code dev boxes. 
  • Imaging: Dev team leads can now convert team customizations into images, reducing provisioning time for new dev boxes, removing the need for custom image pipelines, and enabling automatic upstream OS updates. (Preview) 
  • Dev Box customizations and imaging now support secrets and variables, enabling teams to reuse centralized secrets stored in Azure Key Vault, private repos, or private artifact servers, and work more securely.     

Built for enterprise trust 

  • Project Policy. IT Admins can set up guardrails around resources that projects can and cannot access, such as images, SKUs, and network connections. (Preview) 

Learn more in our announcement blog, tune in to the breakout Tuesday, November 19 at 1:30 PM Central time: Beyond VDI: Get secure cloud dev environment with Dev Box, and get started today!