Azure Boards
Connect Azure Boards to Safeguard: what it provides, how to set it up, and the frameworks it provides evidence for.
Record your Azure Boards connection as ticketing evidence. Automated collection is not available for this provider yet.
| Category | Ticketing |
| Connect with | API token |
| What a connection produces | Connection record |
Connect with an API token
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In Azure Boards:
- Sign in to your organization at https://dev.azure.com/\{organization\}.
- On the home page, open user settings and select Personal access tokens.
- Select + New Token.
- Enter a name, select one organization (not all organizations), and set a short expiration date.
- Select only the scopes required; Safeguard only reads work items, so choose read-only access rather than full access.
- Select Create, copy the token and store it securely; the token value doesn't appear again.
Where to find the other values:
- Base URL (optional): https://dev.azure.com/\{organization\} for Azure DevOps Services; for Azure DevOps Server, https://{server}/{collection}.
- Account / Org / Workspace (optional): The {organization} part of https://dev.azure.com/\{organization\}.
Azure Boards shows the secret only once, so copy it before you leave the page.
An administrator can restrict PAT creation, scopes and lifetimes (Organization settings › Policies, and tenant-level policies under Organization settings › Microsoft Entra). Global PATs stop working on December 1, 2026; create an organization-scoped PAT. A PAT can't grant more than its owner has. The Work Items scope label itself was not shown on the fetched page.
Source: learn.microsoft.com, checked 2026-10-07.
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On Compliance › Connectors, open Azure Boards, click Connect, choose API token and fill in:
Field What to enter API token / Personal access token Required. Stored encrypted and never shown again. Base URL (optional) — Account / Org / Workspace (optional) — -
Click Connect with token.
Frameworks
No automated compliance test reads Azure Boards yet, so no framework lists it. How connectors provide evidence for frameworks: Frameworks and connectors.
Related
- Ticketing connectors
- Compliance connectors: how connecting works, card statuses and multiple accounts
- Connector setup reference: every connector in one table
- Frameworks and connectors: how connectors provide evidence for frameworks