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Performance & Load Testing and other great free Webcasts by Northwest Cadence
This summer is destined to be EPIC! National Marine Fisheries have predicted this is going to be the best Salmon fishing in 38 years AND Steve Borg and Rennie Araucto have put an entire series of web casts together to guarantee your summer sizzles…Without breaking the bank! About the presenters: Steven Borg Co-Founder and Strategist Microsoft ALM MVP Northwest Cadence Steven has been a Microsoft ALM MVP since product inception in 2005, speaks regularly at Software Development and Visual Studio conferences, and has authored Microsoft courseware and white papers on Team Foundation Server, reg...
TFS Planning, DR avoidance and TFS on Azure IaaS v1.4 guidance landed … what’s next?
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 package, including quick reference chest sheets, posters and planning workbook. where’s the stuff? what is next? The team is preparing to host a ChalkTalk session at TechReady 19, planning to share the findings and engage with the field to determine other potential...
New Environment Verification fails Saying invalid ‘Domain User Name’ using Microsoft Test Manager
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 : Solution : Instead of using run as account for joining domain use "Specify credentials to use for joining the domain" option for joining domain
Conduct a Git pull request on Visual Studio Online
When you want people on your team to review code in a Git team project on Visual Studio Online, you can use a pull request to review and merge the code. Pull requests enable developers working in topic branches to get feedback on their changes from other developers prior to submitting the code into the master branch. Any developer participating in the review can see the code changes, leave comments in the code, and give a "thumbs up" approval if they're satisfied with those changes. Create a topic branch Before you commit your code in Visual Studio, create a topic branch. Commit your changes to the topic bra...
Analyzing Load Test Results and everything you wanted to know about load test reports
Geoff Gray works in Premier services and “ALL” he does is help our customers with their performance problems and even helped create one of three US based performance labs. He has just finished a three part series on understanding Load Test Reports. Even after 23 years of working at Microsoft I still really love it. The reason is easy to figure out: the people I get to work with. Meeting and my conversation with Geoff Gray yesterday reinforced that this really is the best company in the world to work at. Thanks Geoff! While note part of t...
Error importing the result file after a load test run
Been working with the fine folks at the Game Studios labs and they just recently ran to the following error when they finish a load test run: “There was an error importing the result file after a load test run.” The cause in their case was their Load Test repository had filled up. In Visual Studio 2013 we started automatically creating and connecting to a local SQL Express interest for load run data. By default this is located at: Data Source=aidemo008sqlexpress;Initial Catalog=LoadTest2010;Integrated Security=True C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL11.SQLEXPRESSMSSQLDATALoadTest...
The first Cloud Load Test and Application Insights class next week at QuickLearn
One of the ALM MVPs and old friends from Australia Anthony Borton (TFS Instructor) has created an entire set of courses around the latest Visual Studio Online Services including Build, Release Management, Application Insights and Cloud Load Test…and one of the nicest things about his courses you can attend either virtually or in person! Next week Anthony is running the first of these new offerings and has asked ME to help deliver the Cloud Load Test and Application Insights sections. My sections are specifically June 11th 9am to 12pm. I plan on using this time to do the following: 1. Tour of Ap...
Visual Studio 2015 Preview now available in the Virtual Machine Azure Gallery
(Editors Note: Updated the post 4/29/2015) With out a doubt the easiest and fastest way to get started with Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate is to use the Azure virtual machine image that was also released today. This has gotten to be so mainstream that when we make preview builds available to our MVPs half of them are now choosing virtual machines as their experience of choice. Note: If you are using the Azure preview portal this Virtual Machine image will be available tomorrow. *********************** As recently as a year ago I couldn’t imagine what I would need cloud based resources for...