ALM Accelerator For Advanced Makers 1.0.20210521.1

Public preview release of the ALM Accelerator For Advanced Makers. Included in this release are the following enhancements/fixes.

First Time Setup Instructions

To get started with the ALM Accelerator For Advanced Makers check out the ReadMe )https://github.com/microsoft/coe-starter-kit/blob/main/PowerPlatformDevOpsALM/README.md) and Setup Guide (https://github.com/microsoft/coe-starter-kit/blob/main/PowerPlatformDevOpsALM/SETUPGUIDE.md)

Upgrade Instructions

If you are upgrading to the latest public preview you will need to perform the following steps. NOTE: We've changed the internal name of the AA4AM Solution in this release. As a result you will need to delete the existing solution which will cause your App Settings to reset and you'll need to reconfigure.

• Delete the Existing managed solution with the schema name PowerPlatformDevOpsALM
• Import the latest AA4AM Solution https://github.com/microsoft/coe-starter-kit/releases/download/AA4AM-1.0.20210521.1/ALMAcceleratorForAdvancedMakers_1.0.20210521.1_managed.zip
• Update your pipeline templates repo with the latest from https://github.com/microsoft/coe-alm-accelerator-templates
  • We have created a new pipeline to make updating of your Azure DevOps Pipeline Templates simpler going forward. The pipeline can be run manually inside of your Azure DevOps project and will download the latest templates for you and create a Pull Request into your Pipeline Template repo for you to merge any changes. For more information see here https://github.com/microsoft/coe-starter-kit/blob/ALMAcceleratorForAdvancedMakers/ALMAcceleratorForAdvancedMakers/PIPELINESYNCGUIDE.md
• Update Custom Connector Authentication https://github.com/microsoft/coe-starter-kit/blob/ALMAcceleratorForAdvancedMakers/ALMAcceleratorForAdvancedMakers/SETUPGUIDE.md#configure-the-azure-devops-custom-connector

Issues Addressed in this Release:

1. Load more than the first 100 ADO projects per org #399
2. Update Internal Name of ALM Accelerator Solutions #359
3. Remove multiple agents for build/deploy #417
4. Remove ValidationServiceConnection as Global Variable #381
5. Pipelines: Overwrite Unmanaged Customizations On Import #231
6. AA4AM App: Update Solution Import Experience #122
7. Pipelines: GitHub treating json files as bin #368
8. AA4AM: Has Deleted Solution Components and subsequent commits #192

NOTE to Private Preview Members: In this release we made the decision to remove the build-deploy-Solution pipeline that was available in Private Preview in favor of the new environment specific pipelines. Up until the previous release we were still supporting the old multi-stage pipeline, but it was causing us to have to put in a lot of workarounds to keep supporting it.
The benefit of the new environment specific pipelines is you can set them up for as many or as few environments as you like and you can also trigger production deployments without a build which will deploy the latest solution from the test pipeline instead of building again