Essentials now supports bi-directional ALM integration with Azure Boards. To get started, login into Azure Boards and create an Organization. Under this organization, create a new project with a few work items under "Boards".
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Note: Essentials currently provides support for Azure Boards cloud integration only. On-premise is not supported at this time.

In Essentials, click on User icon at the top right of your screen > Account Settings > ALM Integration Settings. Choose "Azure" as your ALM, enter the Organization name from Azure, paste the API token which was generated and Save it. "Test the connection" to make sure the setup is successful.

1) Create your personal access token: For the initial setup, after logging into Azure Boards, click on the user icon > Personal access tokens > New Token.
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Enter your details: Name, Organization, access levels and click on the "create" button. This will generate an API token that you can copy for future reference.

Copy the token in Azure Boards:

2) Add your new token to Essentials: Select the Azure option in the ALM picklist in the ALM Integration Settings tab as follows:

​Paste the token that you created in Azure Boards into the Essentials Access Token field and click Save:

In order to associate an Essentials Plus Work Item or Deployment with an Azure Boards issue or task, go to your Essentials Deployments or Work Items tab> click on New deployment or Work Items. Give it a title, the source and target environments, click on more and "fetch Alm issue/task list", this retrieves all the issues/tasks created in Azure. Associate an issue to your Essentials Plus work items or deployment and save it.
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NOTE: if a list of your issues and task does NOT appear, and you have thousands of issues/tasks in your Azure board, try typing in the entire ADO issue or task number and then click the search button.

Now, add the components, validate and deploy. All these activities will be tracked in your Azure Boards work item.
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Once you complete your deployment in Essentials Plus, go to your work item in Azure to see the update:

If you have questions or need help setting up this integration, please contact Copado Tech Support through the blue chat button in the lower-right corner of your Essentials screen.