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Dec 20, 2013
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Investigating Memory Leaks in Azure Web Sites with Visual Studio 2013

Steve Carroll msft
Steve Carroll msft

One of the cool new features in Visual Studio 2013 is the ability to analyze managed memory issues. Recently, Azure Web Sites added support to programmatically get mini-dumps and “diagsession” files that have heap information from Azure Web Sites in production. In this walkthrough, I’ll show you how to combine these two new features to form a...

DevOpsGit & Version Control
Dec 19, 2013
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Customization and configuration in VS ALM

Kathryn Elliott
Kathryn Elliott

With Visual Studio ALM and TFS, you gain access to a wealth of tools, many of which you configure or can customize. Common areas that team's customize include team alerts, team home page, shared queries, and test platforms. For on-premises deployments, you can also add fields, customize work item types (WITs), and Agile planning tools.  Below you...

DevOpsAzure DevOps ServerGit & Version Control
Dec 19, 2013
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How to configure Team Foundation Server with Release Management

Roopesh Nair
Roopesh Nair

  Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 (RM) is tightly integrated with TFS. In order to communicate with TFS, RM uses a service account to access different functionality of TFS. Here are the necessary minimal permissions that the account must have. If possible, to keep things simple, we recommend an account that is part ...

DevOpsAzure DevOps ServerCI/CD
Dec 18, 2013
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Implementing custom events in Application Insights

Charles Sterling
Charles Sterling

Application Insights Usage reports can supply an incredible wealth of information by simply adding a single line of JavaScript. Such as how many people visit a page, what browsers are they using, what operating systems they are using, where are they visiting from etc etc etc –but this doesn’t tell the entire story.  For instance, it ...

DevOpsAzure & Cloud
Dec 15, 2013
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Announcing Team Foundation Server Administration Tool

Charles Sterling
Charles Sterling

We are pleased to announce that the TFS Administration Tool 2.3 has been updated support Team Foundation Server 2013 and the Team Foundation Server 2013 object model so it can be installed on machines running either the stand-alone object model or Visual Studio 2013. This release now supports SharePoint groups/roles. http://tfsadmin.codeplex.com...

DevOps
Dec 13, 2013
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A handful of ALM Ranger solutions landed to close off another exciting VS ALM year

Willy-P. Schaub
Willy-P. Schaub

The Visual Studio ALM Rangers are pleased to highlight a number of new and updated practical guidance, practical experience and out-of-band solutions that have landed in recently. latest (new or upgraded) solutions what’s next? The Lab Management v3, TFS on Azure IAAS v1 and Version Control v3 guidance projects are in-flight, as well as ...

DevOpsCommunityTest
Dec 12, 2013
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How to debug Release Management components

Roopesh Nair
Roopesh Nair

  Enable logs on Microsoft Deployment Agent: The first and most easy way to debug why an action/component is failing is to open the logs available through the deployment step of your release within Release Management (RM) client. To do this, open your release, access the View Log section, click on the Details button of the deployment...

DevOpsCI/CDGit & Version Control
Dec 12, 2013
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Configuring Release Management to work across untrusted domains

Roopesh Nair
Roopesh Nair

There are times when you will want Release Management (RM) to interact with machines that are not part of the same domain. This post details the steps required to configure RM to work across untrusted domains.  Configuring the Microsoft Deployment Agent  Follow these steps to configure the Release Management Server and the ...

DevOpsCI/CD
Dec 11, 2013
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Announcing Visual Studio 2013 Virtual Machine with Application Lifecycle Management Hands-on-Labs and Demo Scripts

Charles Sterling
Charles Sterling

The Visual Studio 2013 RTM ALM Virtual Machine is available for download along with 4 hands-on-labs / demo scripts which introduce some of the new ALM capabilities which have been added in this release. The 4 hands-on-labs take a scripted approach towards learning this content. These labs double as demo scripts in case you want to show off these ...

DevOps
Dec 11, 2013
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Application Insights Microsoft Monitoring Agent setup and trouble shooting FAQ

Charles Sterling
Charles Sterling

Application Insights has only been available for a month; so it doesn’t come as any surprise that most of the questions and issues have been on the setup process and many of those question has been around the setup of the Microsoft Monitoring Agent. This document should help with the issues we have seen to date. Installation Issues To ...

DevOpsAzure & Cloud