D365F&SCM uses DevOps for both managing the items and tasks to be completed on the system, but also as a version control for the code. When setting up a new development machine, it is important to configure the environment to use DevOps so you can store your code changes and pull all the code others have completed.
There are several steps that need to be completed, and since this is not something that is often undertaken by a developer often, it is useful to have a documented process on how it should be configured. The exact configuration for each implementation will be different. It will depend on the role the development instance will undertake, so the setup should be documented for each implementation. This guide will walk through a basic setup that, once completed, will allow the developer to change the system and release them to DevOps.
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