Personal Access Token (PAT) is the most recommended authentication method used in automation for authenticating into Azure DevOps Services (ADO). However, by design PAT is used as an alternate password of ADO users, when being used in automation, the automation actually running as the ADO user who generated the PAT. That might not be an ideal authentication identity for automation in some environments where the operation of the automation could be affected by policies that are not designed for … [Read more...]