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How can I view the release history records programmatically?

One of the user asked how he can access the comment that he entered while starting the environment...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 02/27/2019

Manage release permissions

Last week one of the customer reported that they are not able to manage the folder permissions of...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 01/07/2019

Release pipeline review of an internal team

Couple of months back, one of my colleague in IDC mentioned that his team faces frequent issues in...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 12/11/2018

New releases hub - Common questions

We recently made the new releases hub the default hub on Azure Devops and here are the common...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 12/11/2018

Liveness in Release Management UI

Over last few weeks, we had some Azure Devops (formerly VSTS) customers who reported that the...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 09/27/2018

Are you not receiving release notifications for a group?

Today a customer reported that VSTS is not sending approval pending email if the approver is a VSTS...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 07/16/2018

Work items between 2 releases

In Release Management UI, we show a nice list of work items that are getting deployed as part of a...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 07/11/2018

How to create a new kubernetes service endpoint for AKS?

In this post, I will talk about the steps that you should perform to create the kubernetes endpoint...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 07/03/2018

Ability to sign the service bus message in task

Recently we (Rohit Batra) added capability to sign the service bus message in "Publish to azure...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 06/27/2018

Approve a deployment for a pre-configured time

Recently one of the customer asked whether release management offers a way by which they can approve...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 01/22/2018

Async Http Agentless Task

There are good set of customers who are using agentless HTTP task in their release definitions where...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 12/18/2017

Release not seeing approve/reject option

Once in a while, a customer will come and mention that their release is not asking for approvals and...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 12/13/2017

Multi-Factor authentication (2FA) in release approvals

Few months back, we (Anjani Chandan) had enabled a feature in RM which lets you enforce multi-factor...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 11/27/2017

How to undelete a deleted release definition?

We (Garima Srivastava) have recently added a feature in the product with which you can undelete a...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 11/22/2017

How to use VSTS docker task to push to AWS registry?

Recently couple of customers wanted to know how to use VSTS docker task to push the container images...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 08/29/2017

How to disable a workflow task in a release using rest APIs?

Recently one of the customer wanted to know how to disable a task in a release using the rest APIs...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 06/10/2017

How to use an old build for release?

I have seen customers asking this question about they can use an old build while creation of a...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 05/11/2017

Auto-resume on manual intervention timeout

Recently we have added an option in our manual intervention task which enables auto resuming the...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 05/08/2017

VS402903: The specified value is not convertible to type ReleaseDefinition. Make sure it is convertible to type ReleaseDefinition and try again

Recently one of the customer reported that he is trying to update a variable in an existing release...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 04/06/2017

How to add/view additional log files in releases?

Recently one of the customer asked how he can add additional log files in their task execution so...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 03/15/2017

TeamFoundationServer 15 RC2 Release Management UI in French/German/Italian language

Post RC2 release, we observed that Release Management UI does not work well while opening the...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 09/29/2016

How to use manual Intervention (Task) in Release Management?

Couple of days we deployed our sprint 105 payload on VSTS which enabled manual intervention feature...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 09/18/2016

How to disable traffic overview page?

Recently one of the customer complained that the traffic overview page in WPF RM is very slow and...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 07/29/2016

Manage RM permissions using TfsSecurity.exe

Recently one of the customer wanted to know whether he can programmatically manage RM-related...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 06/22/2016

How to update release level variables using RM rest APIs?

Recently one of the customer wanted to add a release variable using RM Rest APIs and I shared with...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 05/23/2016

Release Management utilities for RM 2015

Recently one of the customer wanted to know whether we have any utilities/best practices document...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 11/21/2015

Release management trial license has expired

One of our customers recently reported that he is intermittently hitting an issue where release...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 08/28/2015

WinRM client received an HTTP status code 502 or 403 from the remote WS-Management service.

Yesterday Sandeep Venkata was testing a change when he observed that releases to both azure...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 06/17/2015

Error - (1328, 2320) - Parameter count mismatch

Recently one of the customer reported that the releases are failing with following stack trace: -...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 03/10/2015

Not able to see the stop release action in release management

Recently one of the customer reported that one of his release is pending at the deployment step and...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 03/04/2015

Mixed mode assembly is built against version 'v2.0.50727' of the runtime and cannot be loaded in the 4.0 runtime without additional configuration information.

One of the release management customer reported that while running a PS/DSC deployment script, the...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 03/03/2015

The current user does not have access to Release Management. Please login with a valid user or communicate with the Release Management administrator to add your user

One of the release management customers on VSO reported the above error where hewas not able to...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 01/28/2015

Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Release.Common.Helpers.OperationFailedException: Failed to establish remote power shell session

Recently one of the customers reported that his releases with the release management service on...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 01/14/2015

Release Management service is not currently available. If the problem persists, contact your administrator

Recently one of the customers reported that the Release Management client is failing with the above...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 01/13/2015

Release deployment fails with 404 (,15)

Recently one of the internal release management customers (probably one of the windows azure team)...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 01/08/2015

Release management trial license expired?

Recently one of the customers mentioned that the trial license of the release management server has...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 01/08/2015

How to program against Release Management?

Recently one of the release management customers wanted to know how they can use the release...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 12/23/2014

Publish test runs against lab default templates

Last week one of the internal customer mentioned that he has customized the lab default template in...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 10/24/2014

How to mark an environment in use?

MTM provides a nice Ux to mark the environments in use but one of our customer wanted to do that...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 10/04/2014

How to create standard environment programmatically?

MTM provides a good UI flow to create the standard environments but one of the external customer...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 10/04/2014

How to find the list of registered test controllers programmatically?

MTM shows you the list of registered test controllers in one of its page (Lab center –> Test...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 10/04/2014

How to query all the environments in a project collection?

MTM provides ability to see all the environments within a team project but there is no view in which...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 09/24/2014

How to enable lab management logs at the server side?

Here are the steps you should follow to enable lab management logs at the server side. Run query on...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 07/20/2014

SCVMM machines are owned by tfs users

Last week one of the customer wanted to co-relate the owners of the virtual machines created on...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 07/07/2014

How to add/query tags on lab environment machines?

MTM provides the ability to add/view tags on lab environment machines which helps in associating...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 07/02/2014

How to find all the automated test runs that happened on a lab environment?

MTM toolset provides ability to execute automated test runs on lab environments and today one of the...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 06/20/2014

How to find the test runs associated with a build?

Visual studio build summary page shows a lot of information about the build and one of them is about...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 06/06/2014

How to find whether lab environment is in healthy state or not?

MTM provides ability to see all the environments across your lab and one of the thing it shows is...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 06/05/2014

How to compose a lab environment from existing SCVMM based machines?

MTM provides various workflows to create environments. You can create environments from virtual...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 05/15/2014

How to cancel an ongoing operation on lab environment programmatically?

MTM provides users to do bunch of operations on lab environments and a lot of these operations are...

Author: Aseem Bansal [MSFT] Date: 05/01/2014

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