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Customization and configuration in VS ALM
With Visual Studio ALM and TFS, you gain access to a wealth of tools, many of which you configure or can customize. Common areas that team's customize include team alerts, team home page, shared queries, and test platforms. For on-premises deployments, you can also add fields, customize work item types (WITs), and Agile planning tools. Below you'll find links to topics that show you how to configure or customize areas related to version control, build, work tracking, and testing using TFS. Version control and build You can manage source code using Team Foundation version control (TFVC) or Git. Here is a view...
How to configure Team Foundation Server with Release Management
Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 (RM) is tightly integrated with TFS. In order to communicate with TFS, RM uses a service account to access different functionality of TFS. Here are the necessary minimal permissions that the account must have. If possible, to keep things simple, we recommend an account that is part of the Project Collection Service Accounts group. · Collection Level o ‘Make requests on behalf of others’ permission (required to setup TFS Connection in RM) o ‘View collection-level information’ permission (to get list of ...
Implementing custom events in Application Insights
Application Insights Usage reports can supply an incredible wealth of information by simply adding a single line of JavaScript. Such as how many people visit a page, what browsers are they using, what operating systems they are using, where are they visiting from etc etc etc –but this doesn’t tell the entire story. For instance, it doesn’t tell the development team application or interaction specific things like how much a customer LIKES the page. -Luckily this is easy to add. Starting with a simple Asp.net form: <%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Co...
Announcing Team Foundation Server Administration Tool
We are pleased to announce that the TFS Administration Tool 2.3 has been updated support Team Foundation Server 2013 and the Team Foundation Server 2013 object model so it can be installed on machines running either the stand-alone object model or Visual Studio 2013. This release now supports SharePoint groups/roles. http://tfsadmin.codeplex.com/
A handful of ALM Ranger solutions landed to close off another exciting VS ALM year
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, as well as two Rangers research and infrastructure projects. You can find our up-to-date project flight tracker (status) board on my blog. please send us candid feedback! We can’t wait to hear from you, and learn more about your experience using the add-in. Here are some ways to ...
How to debug Release Management components
Enable logs on Microsoft Deployment Agent: The first and most easy way to debug why an action/component is failing is to open the logs available through the deployment step of your release within Release Management (RM) client. To do this, open your release, access the View Log section, click on the Details button of the deployment step that failed and requires debugging. If that step does not provide enough information about the error follow these steps: Option A: If identity running the Deployment Agent service is a “Service User” in RM: 1. In Windows Services, ...
Configuring Release Management to work across untrusted domains
There are times when you will want Release Management (RM) to interact with machines that are not part of the same domain. This post details the steps required to configure RM to work across untrusted domains. Configuring the Microsoft Deployment Agent Follow these steps to configure the Release Management Server and the Deployment Agent on machines that run in different domains that do not have a two-way trust relationship. 1. On each computer where you will install the RM Server or Deployment Agent, create a local user account that is a member of the Administrators group. Use the sa...
Announcing Visual Studio 2013 Virtual Machine with Application Lifecycle Management Hands-on-Labs and Demo Scripts
The Visual Studio 2013 RTM ALM Virtual Machine is available for download along with 4 hands-on-labs / demo scripts which introduce some of the new ALM capabilities which have been added in this release. The 4 hands-on-labs take a scripted approach towards learning this content. These labs double as demo scripts in case you want to show off these features to others:New features in Visual Studio 2013: If you are looking for even more hands-on-labs and demo scripts, be sure to check out Brian Keller’s other ALM virtual machines at https://aka.ms/ALMVMs.
Application Insights Microsoft Monitoring Agent setup and trouble shooting FAQ
Application Insights has only been available for a month; so it doesn’t come as any surprise that most of the questions and issues have been on the setup process and many of those question has been around the setup of the Microsoft Monitoring Agent. This document should help with the issues we have seen to date. Installation Issues To trouble shoot these issues and more start by looking at the events in the Operations Manager event log(Directions for doing this below). Pay particular attention to APM Agent Event 4003, which is the Start of Microsoft Monitoring agent. Not seeing any data from the Microsof...