{"id":39875,"date":"2018-01-19T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=39875"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:50:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:50:20","slug":"top-stories-from-the-vsts-community-2017-01-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/top-stories-from-the-vsts-community-2017-01-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Top stories from the VSTS community &#8211; 2018.01.19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOP STORIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.nfocussoftwaretesting.com\/improve-software-testing-take-the-driving-seat\" rel=\"noopener\">Improve Software Testing &#8211; Take The Driving Seat<\/a> &#8211; Phil Edward\nBefore you can begin to improve software testing in your organisation, you need to refresh yourself as to why testing is so important.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.greglow.com\/2018\/01\/12\/devops-load-tests-need-part-regular-deployments\/\" rel=\"noopener\">DevOps: Load Tests Need to be Part of Your Regular Deployments<\/a> &#8211; Greg Low\nOne of the principles of DevOps is that you should be able to deploy regularly, with smaller low-risk changes.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikaelkrief.com\/create-github-release-with-release-notes-in-vsts-pipeline\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Create GitHub release with release notes in VSTS pipeline<\/a> &#8211; Mikael Krief\nI included another task in this extension to create a GitHub release with a release notes during your VSTS CI\/CD pipeline.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalmrangers\/2018\/01\/16\/using-the-navigationservice-in-your-vsts-and-tfs-extension\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Using the NavigationService in your VSTS and TFS extension<\/a> &#8211; Wouter de Kort\nLast week a user of our Team Project Health extension reported an issue when using the extension on Team Foundation Server 2018. Here&#8217;s the resolution.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/david.gardiner.net.au\/2018\/01\/vsts-and-teamcity-wrapping-up.html\" rel=\"noopener\">VSTS and TeamCity \u2013 Wrapping up<\/a> &#8211; David Gardiner\nWouldn&#8217;t it be great if TeamCity and VSTS had full builtin support for each other? Well yes, yes it would!<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mickeygousset.com\/time-vote-codestock-2018-speakers\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Time to Vote for CodeStock 2018 Speakers<\/a> &#8211; Mickey Gousset\nI\u2019ve never had the opportunity to attend or speak at CodeStock. I\u2019m hoping to change that this year, and to do that I need your help.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.jessehouwing.nl\/2017\/06\/global-devops-bootcamp-2017.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Global DevOps BootCamp 2017<\/a> &#8211; Jesse Houwing\nYesterday we had a blast. It&#8217;s the only way to describe it.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.codewrecks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/09\/monitor-tfs-search-data-usage\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Monitor TFS Search data Usage<\/a> &#8211; Ricci Gian Maria\nIn previous post I\u2019ve explained how to move searches component in a different machine in a TFS 2018 installation, now it is time to understand how to monitor that instance.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benday.com\/2018\/01\/09\/deploy-to-azure-from-tfs-using-an-azure-resource-manager-service-endpoint\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Deploy to Azure from TFS using an Azure Resource Manager Service Endpoint<\/a> &#8211; Ben Day\nYou need an Azure Resource Manager Service Endpoint and some values from Azure. There\u2019s a link to a PowerShell script at the bottom of this post that\u2019ll help. You\u2019ll probably still need to read this blog post though.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thomasfreudenberg.com\/archive\/2018\/01\/16\/generating-workflow-diagram-for-witd\" rel=\"noopener\">Generating workflow diagrams for TFS work items<\/a> &#8211; Thomas Freudenberg\nTo document the workflow of our work items, I wanted to create perspicuous charts. However, if you&#8217;re a nerd like me, you don&#8217;t want to use PowerPoint or Visio to create high gloss charts. Instead I like to automate the creation of the charts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>VIDEOS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC-ikyViYMM69joIAv7dlMsA\" rel=\"noopener\">DevOps @ Microsoft on YouTube<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/clip_image0011.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip_image001\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"clip_image001\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/01\/clip_image001_thumb1.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"65\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TIP<\/strong>: If you want to get your VSTS news in audio form then be sure to subscribe to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotfs.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">RadioTFS<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><strong>FEEDBACK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What do you think? How could we do this series better?\nHere are some ways to connect with us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add a comment below<\/li>\n<li>Use the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/vsts\" rel=\"noopener\">#VSTS<\/a> hashtag if you have articles you would like to see included<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Improve Software Testing &#8211; Take The Driving Seat &#8211; Phil Edward Before you can begin to improve software testing in your organisation, you need to refresh yourself as to why testing is so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Improve Software Testing &#8211; Take The Driving Seat &#8211; Phil Edward Before you can begin to improve software testing in your organisation, you need to refresh yourself as to why testing is so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}