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TFS Lab Management with multiple SCVMM servers

February 25, 2014 Feb 25, 2014 02/25/14
Willy-P. Schaub
The ALM Rangers recently received a user request to clarify the following concept: “with Team Foundation Server 2013 you can configure a different SCVMM server for each team project collection”. This blog post, created by Richard Fennell, pulls together the discussions with Mathias Olausson, Vijay Machiraju and Richard Fennell from the ALM...

Announcing new Application Lifecycle readiness content by the ALM Rangers

February 12, 2014 Feb 12, 2014 02/12/14
Willy-P. Schaub
The ALM Rangers have been involved with a bunch of recent Visual Studio 2013 readiness content to help people get up to speed. 1. The Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes – eBook update v1.2 .  Big thanks to Michael Fourie, we have been able to action the backlog of community feedback for recent versions and package as part of the...

A handful of ALM Ranger solutions landed to close off another exciting VS ALM year

December 13, 2013 Dec 13, 2013 12/13/13
Willy-P. Schaub
(image) The Visual Studio ALM Rangers are pleased to highlight a number of new and updated practical guidance, practical experience and out-of-band solutions that have landed in recently. latest (new or upgraded) solutions what’s next? The Lab Management v3, TFS on Azure IAAS v1 and Version Control v3 guidance projects are in-flight, ...

Visual Studio Unit Test Generator v1 “lands”

August 27, 2013 Aug 27, 2013 08/27/13
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The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the Visual Studio Unit Test Generator v1. Looking for unit test code generation? The Visual Studio Unit Test Generator helps to increase developer productivity by decreasing the setup work involved in creating new unit tests. It takes away the routine test creation tasks allowing a ...

ALM Rangers ship guidance for Microsoft Fakes, TFS Disaster Avoidance and updates to two other guides

March 1, 2013 Mar 1, 2013 03/1/13
Willy-P. Schaub
We are pleased to announce that we have shipped two new exciting projects introducing practical guidance on the use of Microsoft Fakes and for Team Foundation Server (TFS) disaster recovery avoidance, planning and step-step recovery walkthroughs for the worst case scenarios. New(image)   Updates In addition we have released ...

ALM Rangers ship the ALM Readiness treasure map

February 12, 2013 Feb 12, 2013 02/12/13
Willy-P. Schaub
We are pleased to announce that we have released the version of the Windows Store reference application that delivers the ALM Readiness treasure map to your Surface and other Windows 8 devices. (image) Both the paper based map and the Windows Store application allow you to explore the ALM guidance delivered by the ALM Rangers, DPE, PFE, p&...

ALM Rangers ship update #1 for the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in

November 30, 2012 Nov 30, 2012 11/30/12
Willy-P. Schaub
We are pleased to announce that we have released the first update to version (1.0.12.0622) of the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in, adding support for Word 2010 64-bit. See Word4TFS10-x64misi and Rangers_vsarword4tfs_1.0.12.0622_Everything.zip files in the latest (image) The add-in allows you to import work items from a Team Foundation ...

Quick Response Sample – Visual Studio Extension to support the ALM Rangers Branching and Merging guidance

November 22, 2012 Nov 22, 2012 11/22/12
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Quick Response samples provide information directly from Visual Studio ALM Rangers working with the Microsoft Visual Studio Product Group and Microsoft Services, in response to feature gaps to supplement the product and knowledge base information. (image) Issue It is not simple to implement a consistent branching model, that complies with ...