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Jun 18, 2014
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TFS Planning, DR avoidance and TFS on Azure IaaS v1.4 guidance landed … what’s next?

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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 the everything ...

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Jun 3, 2014
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Perform diagnostic search across your logs – Now Improved!

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You no longer have to install any agent on your server to use the fast diagnostic log search in Application Insights. You simply add Application Insights to your app project, together with an adapter for your favorite logging platform. Your log events are sent to the portal, where you can query them as you like, and get quickly to the root of any p...

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May 30, 2014
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Announcing the New Application Insights Alerts Page

Charles Sterling

(Posting for one of the PMs on the Application Insights team Soubhagya Dash or just “Dash” as we call him in the hallways)   We are excited to announce the new Alerts page user experience! This experience replaces the prior page and has been rebuilt ground up with significant back-end service improvements as well. Check it out! As always y...

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May 28, 2014
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Latest Microsoft Monitoring Agent

VladJ

The Application Insights team has released a new agent for Application Performance Management scenarios.  This updated agent is version 7.1.11196.0 and is available here.  If you are already using version 7.1.11115.0 then upgrading to this agent can be done by uninstalling the old one and then installing the newer version (for Azure Cloud Services ...

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May 22, 2014
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Release Management Update 3 CTP1 is now available with DSC Deployment Feature!

jayantivemulapati

We have just published the CTP1 for Visual Studio Release Management 2013 Update 3. You can download this release here and read through the KB article here. With this update, you can use DSC (Desired State Configuration) to deploy apps to your environments. Using DSC, you can run Powershell scripts on target servers of an environment without havin...

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May 19, 2014
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Application Insights in DevDays Finland

Charles Sterling

It is always very interesting to see how different technologies are adopted at different rates in different geographies for instance MSMQ initially had its largest user base Australia.  In rolling out Application Insights we have seen a large uptake in Europe namely Netherlands and Finland.  In the case of MSMQ the cause was unreliable an...

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May 15, 2014
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Practical guidance for TFVC and TFS on Azure IaaS

Willy-P. Schaub

The Visual Studio ALM Rangers are pleased to highlight new and updated practical guidance that landed recently. TFS Planning, DR avoidance and TFS on Azure IaaS v1.4.BETA has shipped! Version Control guidance v3.BETA flight has landed Find more ALM Ranger solutions on aka.ms/vsarsolutions.

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May 9, 2014
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Debugging, Profiling, IntelliTrace in VS2013 Update 2 and Tech Ed

Anisha Pindoria

Those of you following this blog, and in particular the diagnostics tag, know about the wealth of new value we have shipped in VS2013 RTM and the VS2013 Update 2 RC. I wanted to remind you of all the debugging and profiling features you can take advantage of – please see the items on these two lists: * Investments in VS2013 RTM * Enhancements i...

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Apr 27, 2014
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Brisbane ALM User Group: Integrating Application Insights in the end to end ALM workflow by Anthony Borton

Charles Sterling

The warming weather and the Thunder Showers this weekend definitely left me a little homesick for Australia…which compelled me to announce this weeks ALM User Group in Brisbane.  Next week is “bring a friend” week at the Brisbane ALM User Group with with every person who brings a friend receiving free soft drinks during the ...

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Apr 21, 2014
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Monitoring Custom Performance Counters in Application Insights

Charles Sterling

I have had several folks ask me how to monitor custom performance counters in Application Insights. Since I hadn’t played with performance counters in a while I thought I would go through the MSDN documentation on this topic from end to end. Step 1.  Create the performance Counter In Visual Studio open Server Explorer, expand the Performance Cou...

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