Registering DevOps in LCS – URL you entered doesn’t appear to be a visual studio team services site

DevOps is the source control environment used by D365 F&SCM for development. The DevOps needs to be set up in a few places, but one of the critical locations is the project in Lifecycle Services (lcs.dynamics.com).

Once the LCS project is created, you must set up the Azure DevOps under the project settings. When you first access the Azure DevOps screen, you will be told Azure DevOps has not been configured correctly for this project. This is correct, as this is a new project and has never been configured.

Press the Setup Azure DevOps button to connect your DevOps environment to your Lifecycle Services project.

There are two pieces of information you need to enter:

1. The Azure DevOps site URL

2. The Personal access token

The DevOps site URL would typically look like https://dev.azure.com/<somename>/. If you enter this, you will receive an error message when trying to link the two. This is due to the LCS system needing to use the old naming conversation of the DevOps URL. The dev.azure.com is the new naming convention, which LCS does not support. The old naming convention is http://<somename>.visualstudio.com/. You need to ensure you use the old visual studio.com naming convention, or you will receive the error “The URL you entered doesn’t appear to be a Visual Studio Team Services site”