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

September 17, 2014 Sep 17, 2014 09/17/14
Ashok Kirla
Microsoft Azure makes it easy to set up VMs to use as servers in your environment. Azure adds your VMs to cloud services. You'll need a Microsoft Azure account to create your VMs. If you don't have one yet, sign up here. In Release Management, you'll create an Azure environment for each release stage. You then link your environment to a cloud ...

Enhance your Application Availability Monitoring with VS 2013 Web Test Plugins

September 11, 2014 Sep 11, 2014 09/11/14
Gustavo R Lima
You may be aware Application Insights in Visual Studio Online provides you with the capability of monitoring the availability of your web applications through the use of Visual Studio Web Tests. If not, you may want to take a peek at this post before continuing. Now, let’s assume your application is a financial tool which provides real-time...

Application Insights SDK (0.10.0-prerelease)

September 3, 2014 Sep 3, 2014 09/3/14
Joshua Weber-MSFT
What is it? Application Insights SDK lets you send telemetry to the Application Insights portal, where you can find out what users are doing with your application. 0.10.0 is the latest SDK release for Application Insights. This SDK includes new functionality and new concepts in addition to a change in the basic architecture...

Monitoring your existing Applications

August 27, 2014 Aug 27, 2014 08/27/14
VladJ
Sometimes you want to monitor a web application that’s already installed and running – without updating the code or redeploying it. Maybe it has some kind of performance issues or is throwing exceptions and you need to apply instrumentation ASAP. Now you can do that with Application Insights Status Monitor. Just by installing it on your ...

Application Insights – instrumentation approaches for running tests

August 14, 2014 Aug 14, 2014 08/14/14
VladJ
[this summer Beckylin Orooji from the University of Central Florida in Orlando studying Computer Science interned with the Application Insights team in the developer division at Microsoft.  Below is a blog she authored based on some end to end scenarios she worked on] In my scenario today I have a shopping website. I have made some changes ...

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

July 7, 2014 Jul 7, 2014 07/7/14
Roopesh Nair
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 6, 2014 Jul 6, 2014 07/6/14
Roopesh Nair
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.   ...

TFS Planning, DR avoidance and TFS on Azure IaaS v1.4 guidance landed … what’s next?

June 18, 2014 Jun 18, 2014 06/18/14
Importer
We are pleased to announce that the v1.4 flight of the TFS Planning and DR Avoidance Guide has firmly landed, after Bill Heys completed the copy editing and the product owner has given us the “thumbs up”. what’s included? The latest guidance includes practical guidance for three main scenarios: … and lots more in ...