#Token creator how to

Quick Guide on How to generate an access token Other useful resources about access tokens: We recommend that you set this number to 14 so that our technicians have enough time to do their job should the issue need escalating to a developer. One of the most important improvements is that tokens are temporary, encrypted, and will be automatically deleted after a certain number of days.

We've built the new token generator with security in mind. Overall, access tokens offer a much faster workflow and improved user experience. Not only are the number of steps reduced from 10 to 5, but the hassle of creating a new user is taken out of the equation. Paste it into the ticket you are writing for our support team To read audit log events, and manage and delete streams, select Read Audit Log, and then select Create. For example, to create a token to enable a build and release agent to authenticate to Azure DevOps Services, limit your token's scope to Agent Pools (Read & manage). Now, with the token generator, this can be greatly simplified: Select the scopes for this token to authorize for your specific tasks. Here are more details about each of these benefits:īefore, having the access token generator, these were the steps you would have to go through to give us access to your site: We have decided to implement the token generator for a few reasons: If you have created a token and pasted it to your ticket, once you submit the ticket, the support team will be able to log in to your website and look into the issue you are experiencing. Learn more about how to give support team access for debugging from this article.