Anisha Pindoria

Senior Program Manager, Azure DevOps

Anisha is on the Azure DevOps Community team, where she promotes engagement with leading technical community experts and groups to support awareness for Azure DevOps and accelerate the adoption via offline (meetups, conferences and workshops) and online (forums like Stack Overflow, MVP Program, and product group interactions).

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Implementing Deployment Markers in Application Insights

November 6th, 2013
Application Insights is a set of services that integrates production monitoring data with development tools. In many of the demos you will see us opening the solution and code file directly from the production data. For instance in the screenshot below I can click on those blue dots it will take me directly to the specific changeset used to ...

Visual Studio 2013 RC ALM courses available from training partner Quicklearn

September 13th, 2013
 One of the ALM MVPs  Anthony Borton (TFS Instructor) has created an entire set of courses around Visual Studio 2013…and one of the nicest things about his courses you can attend either virtually or in person!Here is more information about these courses: *********************************************************** The Release ...

ALM Readiness Treasure Map – Release 2 available in the Windows Store

August 3rd, 2013
The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the second release of the ALM Readiness Treasure Map Windows Store App, which was certified and released on August 1st and is now featured in the Windows Store.  (image) (image) (image) It provides a master catalogue (treasure map) of the available ALM Readiness content to guide you...

Creating Fence Environments using Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview Lab Management can put Lab Environment in “Not Ready” state

July 22nd, 2013
This issue can occur if the guest OS is Windows 2012 R2 Preview. (image)   Workaround: Install Agents for the Lab Environment once. It should fix the problem.  Cause: When the test agent is installed and configured, by default it enables firewall exception for tcp port 6910 in privateand current profiles. If the guest OS is ...

Load testing with Team Foundation Service – Launching Preview and Early Adoption Program

June 26th, 2013
As announced with Visual Studio 2013 launch, cloud based load testing with Visual studio Online is in Commercial Preview. This is open to all Visual Studio Online users. You can read more about it here.Getting Started links  Usage limits and Early Adoption ProgramAll users of Team Foundation Service will be able to run load tests on ...

Why does Visual Studio 2013 display “Visual Studio 2010” in the Test settings dialog

June 17th, 2013
Had a question come up today on one of the distribution lists:   Why does the Data and Diagnostics adapter reference Visual Studio 2010 even in Visual Studio 2013?   (image) Turns out this dialogue is trying to convey that this is the old way or the “Visual Studio 2010” way of static code coverage where users need ...

Part 3: Unit testing with Traits and code coverage in Visual Studio 2012 using the TFS Build – and the new NuGet adapter approach

June 11th, 2013
The Unit Testing series by one of the ALM MVPs Terje Sandstrom has been some of the highest read posts on the ALM blog…In this post he shows how to easily provide unit Test Adapters from NuGet. Thanks for the Great Post Terje!   ********************************************************** This is the 3rd post in a series on Unit ...

Microsoft Test Manager: Customization of test result fields and marking test results as NA

June 5th, 2013
As part of the MTM enhancements in the  Visual Studio Update 2, we introduced a feature to customize the test result analysis fields like 'Resolution' and 'Failure type'. Different projects may have different reporting needs and this feature lets you do just that. You can customize the values that appear in these fields based on your ...

Blog Updates

May 30th, 2013
You may have noticed some updates to the blog today. We’ve made a few changes to better accommodate how readers are using the blog. Over the past year, we’ve seen a lot of growth in the ALM team blog, both in terms of readership as well as the volume of content being posted. While we’re happy to have this increase in ...

Final ALM Certification Jumpstarts May 28th and May 29th

May 21st, 2013
Earlier this month Anthony Borton, Lead ALM Consultant at Enhance ALM, and Steven Borg, Co-founder and Strategist at Northwest Cadence, delivered a very successful Jumpstart for Microsoft Virtual Academy. This FREE day-long online session helped prepare attendees prepare for exam 70-498:  Delivering Continuous Value with Visual Studio ...