Ranger Flash April 2015 - Gearing up to major events and the project rename

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05/04/2015

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news

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalmrangers/ is our new home! Bookmark our team site and keep posting those candid feedback comments!
Extracting effective permissions from TFS - sample update v1.2 team is announced an update of the Extracting effective permissions from TFS whitepaper and sample.
What do you like and dislike with the latest Version Control guidance we need your feedback to investigations of the next phase of the Version Control (ex Branching and Merging) Guidance.
SonarQube Installation Guide, which explains how to set up a production ready SonarQube installation to be used in conjunction with Team Foundation Server 2013 to analyse .Net apps.
MS Press – Managing Agile Open Source Software using Visual Studio Online is a crisp journal of many years of dogfooding and our learnings, packaged in a free ebook.

what’s boiling over … watch the space!

PowerShell desired state configuration (DSC) team handed over the guidance and four new resources (xOU, xXMLModified, xFilePermissions, xFileSystemPermissions for final validation and community release.

kudos

Kudos and custom champ t-shirts for Hosam, Josh, Mattias and Vladimir our Hosam does it again, and Josh, Mattias and Vladimir get their first champion t-shirt.

welcome our new associate rangers

The following Associate ALM Ranger who has joined us : Ajay Bhosle. Welcome and enjoy the adventure!

more community activity gems worth noticing

The ALM Rangers often engage and deliver value to the ALM community behind the scenes and as started in Ranger Flash – March 2015 ... lots of community gems we continue to mention some of the many nuggets:

Oscar Garcia Colon
- In 3.5 months Oscar and his students pulled off a great DevOps story: Story journal, YouTube video - Full Ecoystem and YouTube video - Application Insights.
Hassan Fadili
- Goodness of Microsoft Technologies including ALM event for 4th and 5th year high-school students IGA Marrakech (Morocco).
- Community event from my DotNed User group. See Dennis van der Stelt over Service Bus bij ICT.
- Contributing to MSP / ALM Event in May at Microsoft Casablanca Morocco … watch the space!
Martin Hinshelwood
- Presenting Big Scrum: All You Need and It’s Not Enough to ALM Forum and hosting workshop with David Starr David Starr in May.
- Presenting Avoid the Bug as Task anti-pattern at NDC Oslo NDC Oslo in June.
Michael Wiley
- Delivered Windows Azure – Visual Studio Online sessions for the MS internal WW Community.
Rui Melo
- Presented PowerShell DSC, DevOps and ALM Rangers awareness sessions to SPUG.PT (SharePoint Users Group – Portugal).

news from ALM Rangers @ //build event

Donovan Brown and Wouter de Kort … together at the ALM booth Smile

“Microsoft is universally everywhere; every device and development platform for every developer”, Jim Szubryt.

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