Microsoft's preferred route for applications calling Azure DevOps REST endpoints as a signed-in person. Its predecessor took no new registrations from April 2025 onwards and is being withdrawn in 2026.
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Terms in this definition
- Azure DevOps
Microsoft's suite of DevOps services, among them Azure Boards and Azure Pipelines.
- REST
Short for representational state transfer, the style of HTTP API that Azure services expose.
Related terms
- OAuth
An authorisation standard allowing software to act for someone. In Azure Pipelines, choosing it for a GitHub service connection ties the connection to your own GitHub account; for integrations with Azure DevOps APIs, Microsoft Entra ID OAuth is the right choice.
- Third-party application access through OAuth
Controls whether Azure DevOps OAuth apps can reach an Azure DevOps organisation. New organisations start with it switched off, and Microsoft Entra ID OAuth apps aren't affected by it.