In Azure DevOps I can no longer extend the expiration date of a Personal Access Token PAT

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In Azure DevOps I can no longer extend the expiration date of a Personal Access Token PAT

Doug Bloch 66

Within Azure DevOps, I used to be able to edit my PATs and pick a new expiration date in the future to extend the PAT. I can still edit the PAT but unable to pick a new date in the future. The MS documentation still makes reference to changing the expiration date https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/accounts/use-personal-access-tokens-to-authenticate?view=azure-devops&tabs=Windows#modify-a-pat

What am I missing??

Paul Matthews 40 Reputation points

2023-02-24T13:32:40.2266667+00:00

Thought I was going mad, I thought you could edit the date. I have a support call open with Microsoft about this. When I get a conclusion, I will update you.
Taylor, Karen 0 Reputation points

2023-03-01T18:53:33.1433333+00:00

Any response from Microsoft?
Nelson Rodriguez 0 Reputation points

2023-03-06T16:09:08.9866667+00:00

I just got this as well. I was going to "extend" the expiration date of several PAT that expire next month and in some I couldn't extend, and in some it didn't even let me pick the original expiration date, only an early one.

If the PAT needs to be re-regenerated, that's going to be very disruptive to the processes that use them, as we'll have to manually update several places.
Paul Matthews 40 Reputation points

2023-03-06T16:17:13.91+00:00

Unfortunately, Microsoft have changed this and are not changing it back. This was the email I got back from Microsoft Support.

Hello Paul, I have checked this internally and they confirmed that the capacity to extend the lifetime of the token is blocked for every org, according to the changes made by PG (Product Group), the agreement was not to allow the extending to maintain security at high levels. Customers who want an expiration date past that date are expected to regenerate token, not update token. Hope that helps. Regards, Gopi Alluri

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Paul Matthews 40 Reputation points

2023-02-24T13:32:40.2266667+00:00

Thought I was going mad, I thought you could edit the date. I have a support call open with Microsoft about this. When I get a conclusion, I will update you.
Taylor, Karen 0 Reputation points

2023-03-01T18:53:33.1433333+00:00

Any response from Microsoft?
Nelson Rodriguez 0 Reputation points

2023-03-06T16:09:08.9866667+00:00

I just got this as well. I was going to "extend" the expiration date of several PAT that expire next month and in some I couldn't extend, and in some it didn't even let me pick the original expiration date, only an early one.

If the PAT needs to be re-regenerated, that's going to be very disruptive to the processes that use them, as we'll have to manually update several places.
Paul Matthews 40 Reputation points

2023-03-06T16:17:13.91+00:00

Unfortunately, Microsoft have changed this and are not changing it back. This was the email I got back from Microsoft Support.

Hello Paul, I have checked this internally and they confirmed that the capacity to extend the lifetime of the token is blocked for every org, according to the changes made by PG (Product Group), the agreement was not to allow the extending to maintain security at high levels. Customers who want an expiration date past that date are expected to regenerate token, not update token. Hope that helps. Regards, Gopi Alluri

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Nelson Rodriguez 0

didn't mean to write an answer

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Paul Matthews 40

According to Microsoft Support:

Hello Paul,

I have checked this internally and they confirmed that the capacity to extend the lifetime of the token is blocked for every org, according to the changes made by PG (Product Group), the agreement was not to allow the extending to maintain security at high levels.

Customers who want an expiration date past that date are expected to regenerate token, not update token.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Gopi Alluri

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