Problems linking Azure and VSTS?

Posted by lee jones on Apr 6, 2017 in Azure, Cloud

I recently hit a minor road-block when attempting to link a VSTS account to an Azure account to do automated deployment upon checkin to a given branch. For some reason Azure simply would not “see” my VSTS account and therefore projects from the portal. After a little bit of searching online I found and followed this article on the Kudo blog. Specifically it states that you need to be at least a project administrator, it must be GIT source controlled project and you need to check if you can create service hooks (to validate the given permissions). All of these were fine so I continued searching. I then stumbled upon this article which solved the problem for me. It seems you also need to be the project OWNER, which I was not. Thankfully, changing ownership is a doddle so I switched owners using the details in the post I just linked to and it still didn’t show up. Finally, I switched back to the old azure portal and tried linking my accounts there. Voila! It worked. Why the new Azure portal couldn’t see the VSTS account I don’t know, but as soon as they were linked in the old portal everything started working in the new one. It seems we may be stuck with two portals for a little while...