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How to setup Azure environments for Agent-less deployments in Release Management 2013 with Update 3 RTM
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 service associated with your Azure subscription. Release Management can then access any of the VMs in this cloud service to use in the environment. If you have multiple VMs associated with a cloud service, you can add any of these VMs as servers to your Azure environment in ...
Connecting Microsoft Application Insights from “behind the firewall”
One of the members of our happy ALM Family, Stuart Preston, did a great post on setting up Application Insights to an Application running from behind the firewall. Thanks Stuart!! ****************************Microsoft Application Insights: Connecting from “behind the firewall”Working with Visual Studio Application Insights recently, I recently had to get the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) working for a customer with a restrictive firewall policy in place in their Live environment.To connect MMA to Visual Studio Online, you may need to have your firewall/network administrator open up acces...
Enhance your Application Availability Monitoring with VS 2013 Web Test Plugins
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 stock data. In order to effectively validate its availability, you need to pass in the current time somewhere in your web test request. After all, you want to make sure your data is current (you know, real-time data J ) So, let’s say that, after you record your web test in V...
Scaled Agile Framework: Using TFS to support epics, release trains, and multiple backlogs whitepaper
EDITED: 6/20/2018. See below. We are pleased to publish the following whitepaper: Scaled Agile Framework: Using TFS to support epics, release trains, and multiple backlogs. The Scaled Agile Framework, or SAFe, is gaining popularity among organizations looking to scale Agile practices to the enterprise level. SAFe is a comprehensive framework, covering practices from portfolio level planning to release planning to coding practices. While TFS does not provide full support for all SAFe practices, TFS can be used to implement many of the planning practices. This whitepaper provides practical guidance on how to imp...
New Intellitrace article from Testing Experience: Successful Quality Management with Visual Studio IntelliTrace
If you don’t have a free subscription to Testing Experience yet now is definitely a great time to sign up as they have a new article on Intellitrace! Always Know What’s Going On Successful Quality Management with Visual Studio IntelliTrace Software development can be nerve-wracking. As a developer, you often think that the work is completed once the software has been checked in. However, this often does not take into account quality assurance, which may then discover many surprising errors in the software after all, even though the subject of examination has already undergone its comp...
Application Insights SDK (0.10.0-prerelease)
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. Data sent through this SDK will only be visible through the Microsoft Azure Preview Portal. (Previous versions sent data to an earlier edition of Application Insights, which is part of Visual Studio Online.) To find out more information about the different versions of Appl...
Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server Update 4 CTP 1 now available
If you have been looking forward to the last set of Visual Studio Online Features to become available to Team Foundation Server your wait is OVER! You can find many of your favorite Visual Studio Online features in the first Technology Preview for Update 4 (CTP 1); to download it please see: Download Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 CTP 1. To see all the fixes please see the KB: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=2994375 Team Foundation Server Features Visual C++ Features Trend charts + aggregation with new chart types: Stacked Area, Area, and Line We’ve also enabled a new feature to...
Monitoring your existing Applications
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 server, you get performance telemetry right away, and you can add web tests too. If, later, you want to insert trace code or usage analytics, you can go back to the standard method of adding Application Insights to your app project. [BTW - this applies to Application Insights in...
Free and unlimited project stakeholders, and organizational accounts for Visual Studio Online
Was just going through my email and noticed the announcement for two new features for Visual Studio Online: **************** Invite stakeholders to a project to keep them informed on what's happening with that team or project. They’ll have access to the team home page, where they can view updated project information. They’ll also have access to the backlog, taskboard, and Kanban board, where they can create and edit work items or work item queries. You can add unlimited stakeholders to your team projects at no charge – in addition to the five Visual Studio Online Basic users you get for fre...