Visual Studio 2013 & 2015 sign in

Question

I am currently using Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate and I have been trying Visual Studio 2015 Ultimate. Due to corporate policies, our organization has decided to block visualstudio.com from the firewall stating the site allows you to upload code. Obviously
not all of visualstudio.com serves this purpose, but it means that I can't properly leverage the integrated sign in in Visual Studio 2013 and 2015. I got around the requirement in 2013 by entering a license key, but I see no such option in 2015. Ideally however
I'd be able to use the sign in services, but this would require our company to know what areas of visualstudio.com they can block to stop just code upload to visual studio online. Does Microsoft have a document detailing how visualstudio online code upload
can be blocked while still maintaining the Visual Studio account and profile features?

Answer 1

Hi,
According to the discussions, seems what you want to achieve is blocking the all account visualstudio.com websitr, first, you can use content advisor if you're using IE, you can find more information in the link below:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/askie/archive/2008/12/18/content-advisor-in-the-corporate-environment.aspx
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-hk/windows/using-content-advisor-block-inappropriate-content#1TC=windows-7
You can also edit the hostfile (C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts)to block the website,  for convenience, I'd like to share the following link with you:
http://www.technet2u.com/2012/09/how-to-block-any-websites-using-host.html
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