Roopesh Nair

Principal Program Manager, Azure DevOps

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How to deploy to Standard or Azure environments in Release Management 2013 with Update 3 RC

July 7th, 2014
With Microsoft Release Management 2013 Update 3 RC, you can now use Windows PowerShell or Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for deploying and managing configuration data. We now support deploying to On-premise environment (Standard) and Azure environments without having to setup Microsoft Deployment Agent.   ...

How to setup environments for Agent-less deployments in Release Management 2013 with Update 3 RC

July 6th, 2014
With Microsoft Release Management 2013 Update 3 RC, you can now use Windows PowerShell or Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for deploying and managing configuration data. We now support deploying to On-premise environment (Standard) and Azure environments without having to setup Microsoft Deployment Agent.   ...

How to configure Team Foundation Server with Release Management

December 19th, 2013
  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. (image) Here are the necessary minimal permissions that the account must have. If possible, to keep things simple, we recommend an account ...

How to debug Release Management components

December 12th, 2013
  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 ...

Configuring Release Management to work across untrusted domains

December 12th, 2013
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 ...