Flash August 2015 – Resuming adventures after a warm summer break

You can find the latest flight plan snapshot at aka.ms/vsarFlightPlan

news

• We handed off the PowerShell DSC guidance, scenarios and new resources to the PowerShell/DSC team. Watch our team blog for their release announcements.
• Folder Management Extension moved to M85 by our “Ninja Geek” while the team are cooking up a further eighteen (18) extensions.
• Team Foundation Server 2015 upgrade team lights up the revised checklists as part of migration to Library/VS/ALM documentation.
• New discussions released on Channel9:
  • RangersTalk - Q&A with Jamie Cool
  • Monthly Catch-up- S86 with Willy and special guest Hosam Kamel
  • The tables are turned

kudos

Bob Hardister has moved from active to honorary ALM Rangers. THANK YOU Bob, for all of your contributions and good times as an ALM Ranger and colleague. Here are a few pictures to stir some memories

welcome our new rangers

The following new ALM Ranger have joined us : Shaun Mullis and Oleksandr Shamrai. 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. Here are some of the many nuggets:

• @AnthonyBorton called out leveraging our Rangers guidance for #dsc @ #vslive –> https://twitter.com/jszubryt/status/631604321969303552
• Quer saber as novidades da Sprint 86 do #VSO? Acesse https://bit.ly/vsosprintsbr86 @ricardoserradas –> https://twitter.com/vinijmoura/status/631100581491437568
• Josh Garverick continues to expand his Frankenbuild lab –> frankenbuild.visualstudio.com is ready!
• Richard Fennell did a session at the LeedsDevOps usergroup on DSC, a mostly Linux crowd it turned out. He was expecting the worst, but surprisingly well received and got positive feedback.

news from ALM Rangers

• Abel Wang wins the champion, or in his case the SOS, Ninja Geek t-shirt for extraordinary effort and team support:

interesting reads

• general
  • Features timeline refresh
  • Visual Studio Online Update – Aug 26th
  • VS2015 + Cordova Update 1 can lead to broken Cordova projects
  • Debugging Optimized Code
  • Team Foundation Server 2015 Product Key and VLSC Availability
  • Caching: What could go wrong?
  • Visual Studio Online Update – Aug 7th
  • Build a Linux based Dev Machine in Azure
  • Team Foundation Server 2015 Final Release
  • Where is my FQDN for my V2 IaaS VM?
  • Give your Team the Knowledge it needs to Excel!
• team blog (aka.ms.vsarblog)
  • Publishing Visual Studio Online extensions within the preview
  • The NEWS is back for Visual Studio 2015
  • TFS Upgrade
    • Post Upgrade Checklist
    • Long Lead Checklist
    • Long Lead Preparations
    • Short Lead Checklist
    • New Elements of TFS 2015 that influence an upgrade

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