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Trigger Release from build with Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 Update 3

October 10, 2014 Oct 10, 2014 10/10/14
Anand Gaurav
The following is applicable only for vNext pipelines of Release Management.    To trigger a release from build with Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, you needed to install RM client on TFS build agent machine.  With Update 3, this is no longer needed. Release Management Update 3 has exposed some REST APIs to trigger ...

Perform diagnostic search across your Application Insights telemetry

October 6, 2014 Oct 6, 2014 10/6/14
Guru Kirthigavasan
In Application Insights, we’ve just upgraded Diagnostic Search so that you can search all the raw telemetry such as page views, as well as the trace log calls that you can insert. This makes it a lot easier to find and follow chains of events in your app. So for example, if you inserted some log4Net, NLog or System.Diagnostics trace calls in...

Release Management Console times out when launched

September 25, 2014 Sep 25, 2014 09/25/14
Leo Vildosola
When the Release Management Console application is loaded, it defaults to the Traffic Overview page. If the database is not optimized, the query used to load such statistics may take a long time to execute. This may be due to recent updates such as an upgrade of your Release Management Server where existing statistics may now be staled. By ...

Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 Update 2 is now available

September 22, 2014 Sep 22, 2014 09/22/14
Will Smythe
Team Explorer Everywhere (TEE) enables developers to connect to Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online from Eclipse-based IDEs on Windows and non-Windows platforms, including Linux and Mac OS. This provides a great way to keep all of your teams, whether they are developing apps with .NET, Java, JavaScript, PHP, etc, centrally ...

Now available Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 ALM Virtual Machine and how to connect it to Visual Studio Online

September 19, 2014 Sep 19, 2014 09/19/14
Charles Sterling
The Visual Studio ALM Virtual Machine is one of the primary (and best) tools for delivering ALM training and presentations we have at Microsoft and today Brian Keller announced that today we’ve published a new version of this great tool: Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 ALM Virtual Machine. This virtual machine includes several updates to the...

How to setup Azure environments for Agent-less deployments in Release Management 2013 with Update 3 RTM

September 17, 2014 Sep 17, 2014 09/17/14
Ashok Kirla
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 ...