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Integrating GitHub with Azure Boards

Your company, Globomantics, wants to use Azure Boards to track work completed in GitHub. You’ve been tasked with setting up an Azure DevOps organization and linking Azure Boards to a GitHub repository

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Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 1h 0m
Last updated
Clock icon Aug 31, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Create a New Azure DevOps Organization

    • Log in to the Azure portal.
    • Enable Third-party application access via OAuth in the Azure DevOps organization settings.
    • GitHub signup page

  2. Challenge

    Generate a Project and Connect GitHub Repository

    • Use the Azure DevOps demo generator to generate a project.
    • Fork SmartHotel360 repository to your GitHub account.
    • Connect your GitHub account to Azure DevOps.

  3. Challenge

    Close an Azure Board Item from Github

    • Make a commit on GitHub and specify the Azure board item number using this format: AB#ITEMNUMBER

  4. Challenge

    Create a GitHub Issue and Link to Azure Boards

    • Enable GitHub issues by turning on issues under Settings in GitHub.
    • Create a GitHub issue and link an Azure Board item to it.
    • Close both the Azure Board item and GitHub issue via single commit.

  5. Challenge

    Create a New GitHub Branch from Azure Boards

    • Turn on New Boards Hubs under Preview features in Azure DevOps
    • Create a new GitHub branch from an Azure Board item.
    • Make a change and merge the branch to the master branch.
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