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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.   Prerequisite...

Problem : This issue happens if you create a template with Os profile properties set to join a domain and the user for joining domain is selected from list of run as accounts in System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Refer the following screen shots for details   Template OS Profile Details: Microsoft Test Manager Error Message :     Soluti...

As was introduced in the Details Page Feature Blog, the IntelliTrace Performance Details Page provides to the user thorough information as well as enhanced functionalities for previewing code and debugging. This post will focus on specific IntelliTrace files that are opened from Application Insights portal and the user experience when single perfor...

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...

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.

Release Management Update 2 is now live! This update brings functionality to easily execute your components/actions to group of servers. It also introduces the ability to achieve continuous deployment from any CI system (including Visual Studio Online). See all the details here and here.  Downloads Trial version is available from the Download C...

The content of this blog is applicable if you are using Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 4 with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2.   Problem:  When you try to import a virtual machine or template to Team Foundation Server library using Microsoft Test Manager(MTM), import wizard throws 'Object reference not set to an instance of an o...

The Microsoft Monitoring Agent allows you to collect reliability performance data and exception data for web applications. You can use IntelliTrace to review this data, or debug this data to get more useful information. In this post I am using MMA Standalone, as opposed to MMA connected to AppInsights or System Center. One of my colleagues deploye...

In order to ship a great quality app to the Store, it is essential that you test it and flush out the bugs. End to end scenario tests when automated can help you ensure that any regressions in the app are caught early. With Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, you can now write automated end-to-end tests for your app using Coded UI Test. In Visual Studi...

[Update: The technique described below is only valid for Agent-Based release templates. To achieve similar behavior for vNext release templates, follow the instructions from the article Trigger Release from build with Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 Update 3.]   Visual Studio Release Management 2013 Update 2 RC release ships w...