Working in the Microsoft cloud ecosystem (ok, Azure) and working for a Microsoft Partner steers me heavily towards the tools that the vendor provides. This works on a number of levels; mainly around depth of knowledge and personally this means getting ready for the next exam.

For code and script storage this means Azure DevOps and GitHub, the choice has got harder lately due to the tweak to the “free” tier on GitHub and private repos but we all love Azure DevOps because of pipelines and all the other stuff, even though my primary day to day use is as a Git Repo.

Of course I’ve been using Visual Studio for years and the online version for as long as it exists. The rebrand to Azure DevOps also brought a new url option going from <org>.visualstudio.com to dev.azure.com/<org> and the latter has created some new joy. I really recommend Multi-Factor authentication and love using the latest and greatest tech from Microsoft including their security features as it’s about the only way to keep up with the threats we face out there on the internet.

Of course it comes back to bite you from time to time and this morning has been a classic case. The current Git for Windows Release is 2.21.0 but a key component for me as a multi-factor protected user of Azure AD and Azure DevOps is the Git Credential Manager for Windows and there are a bunch of fixes relating to the new dev.azure.com url in version 1.19. Git for Windows 2.21.0 unfortunately includes Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.18.4.0 so you’ll need to install in strict order to get this the correct way round.

My symptoms included the following:

• No prompt for credentials when cloning my repo, just a couple of http errors then a prompt for a password.
• No prompt for credentials even though I had removed the pat tokens and emptied Windows Credential Manager.
• Errors thrown at the Git level (I tend to live in VS Code or Visual Studio).