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Release Management Console times out when launched

September 25, 2014 Sep 25, 2014 09/25/14
Leo Vildosola
When the Release Management Console application is loaded, it defaults to the Traffic Overview page. If the database is not optimized, the query used to load such statistics may take a long time to execute. This may be due to recent updates such as an upgrade of your Release Management Server where existing statistics may now be staled. By ...

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...

IntelliTrace standalone collector is back!

August 7, 2014 Aug 7, 2014 08/7/14
Angelos Petropoulos
As you probably already know, Visual Studio Ultimate offers an enhanced live debugging experience (F5 or Attach) through the use of IntelliTrace. Your application’s execution is recorded by IntelliTrace and you can navigate through time, both backwards and forwards, and examine your code as you normally would during a debugging session ...

Restrict Team Foundation Build permissions

August 6, 2014 Aug 6, 2014 08/6/14
Andy Lewis
Do you have code that should be seen by only a subset of members of your on-premises team project collection? Do you use Team Foundation Build (TFBuild)? If so, you must create some custom groups to reduce the risk that unauthorized team project collection members can use a build process to bypass team project permissions. ...

Work-items tracking using Release Management

August 4, 2014 Aug 4, 2014 08/4/14
Anand Gaurav
Tracing what is new in a given release for a product is often tiresome and time taking task. With Microsoft Release Management 2013 Update 3 RC/RTM, you can achieve this easily through its “Change Summary” feature. Details of this feature is described below Change Summary feature details Manual Release When you start a new manual ...

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.   ...