Automating VS Signup and workspace mapping via script on non-persistent VM

Question

My developement environment is a client provided non-persistent Win10 virtual machine with a VS2019 pre-install image.
Every day:

• i have to Sign in to VS with my corporation credentials (with MFA) in order to use the IDE
• i have to add a server to the DevOps list under Team Explorer
• i have to map a specific workspace between many, in this server
• i have to map and get the latest revision for a specific project between many, from this workspace

I wish to automate this process with some powershell script, throught some access token, maybe, for the sign in part.
Is it possible? is there a way to access the functionalities above via command line?

Answer 1

Hi @Matteo Mario Cossu ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

From VS side, Visual Studio provides some commands(see following links), but auto sign in(I believe MFA has some limitations for sign-in), auto connect to DevOps, auto map something are too customized. Simple VS commands don’t meet your requirements.

Devenv command-line switches

Visual Studio commands

Best Regards,
Tianyu

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Answer 2

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query.

Kindly follow the steps provided below to resolve your issue.

1. Steps to replicate:

Create an object level automation script using the following

Object Level Launch Point

Launch Point = OBJ-ASSET-STATUS
Description = Object Asset Status History
Object = ASCHANGESTATUS
Active = Y
Add = Y
update = Y
Initialize = N
Delete = N

No required variables.

Script = OBJ-ASSET-STATUS-SCRIPT
Description = Object asset status history
Log Level = DEBUG
Status = Active
language = jython

Script should be like below :

from psdi.util.logging import MXLogger
from psdi.util.logging import MXLoggerFactory
from psdi.mbo import MboConstants
from java.util import Date
logger = MXLoggerFactory.getLogger("maximo.script");
logger.debug("==OBJ-ASSET-STATUS-SCRIPT." + launchPoint + ": START ==")
assetnum = mbo.getOwner().getString("assetnum");
logger.debug("==OBJ-ASSET-MSM-SCRIPT.assetnum=="+ assetnum)
logger.debug("==OBJ-ASSET-STATUS-SCRIPT." + launchPoint + ": END ==")

Go to this link for your reference https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/automation-scripts-and-non-persistent-objects

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