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 troub...

At launch we announced an exciting new technology called Application Insights. Application Insights is a set of services that provide actionable insight into a production application. This data is then integrated back into the development tools and process. These services include: To ensure all this data is actionable we surface it in a ...

Just saw a request on our internal AI alias on how to rename an application that is being monitored in Application Insights. For those of you that don’t want to read the entire post the directions can be summarized into: **Stop Monitoring the application with the current name, remove the old application THEN create the application by starting ...

I am just wrapping up a week at the MVP Summit and one of the System Center MVPs asked me to walk him through creating a Web Test in Visual Studio and using it for Availability monitoring…Of course i promised to do this and as with most good intentions we ran out of time!  I am hoping this blog post will make up for the fact we couldn’t do it durin...

In just the last month i have been asked three times for a case study or examples of how to test Java based systems using Microsoft Test Manager. Knowing one of the ALM MVPs, Marcel de Vries, is finishing up a very large Java project i reached out to him to find out how he just accomplished this. Despite the fact he was super busy with the Visual...

  For the folks going to the largest developer conference in Canada, DevTeach;  you are in for a real treat as you will be first people on the planet to see Application Insights in anger as the DevTeach organizers have graciously added a session for this exciting new topic.  Unfortunately due to a family emergency i won’t be able ...

Many folks have noticed I had practically stopped blogging. I have been working on one of the products Brian announced at the launch: Application Insights and as this service wasn’t in preview until today have not been able to blog about it. For those of you that weren’t able to make the launch, Application Insights is a set of services that provi...

Visual Studio 2013 has been released to the web! This release has been an amazing ride. While adopting agile development processes across the entire developer division, we have constantly been adding value to Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 -all while planning and working on a new version of Visual Studio -2013. For Applicat...

Today we have released Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 Power ToolsThis release supports To download this release please see:- Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools- Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 Build Extensions- Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 MSSCCI Pr...

One of our ALM Rangers Hosam Kamel from our Center of Expertise has recently just finished a large project that involved integrating several different technologies and platforms.  In this project he made several key learning's and wanted to share them with the ALM Community! Thanks Hosam!!   ****************************   Overview Quality...