Ranger Flash – August 2014 … Planets are aligned

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09/02/2014

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

news

TFS on Azure IaaS v1.4.1 revision has been posted to include performance testing and feedback from ChalkTalk discussions. Find v1.4.1 HERE. The team is working on a v1.4.2 update to improve the Active Domain (AD) domain guidance.

Pirates ship ALM Readiness Treasure Map v3 release for Windows 8.1 which continues the research of latest technologies and introduces the ability for user to refresh the “treasure map” data, without having to re-install the application. The team is working on a v3.1 release, which will introduce the use of Application Insights to gather usage metrics.

welcome our new associate rangers

The following Associate ALM Ranger who has re- joined us during August: Steve St Jean. Welcome and enjoy the adventure!

interesting reads

How to purchase VS Online (Brian Harry)
Stakeholder license is live (BrianH)
Yorkhill Ice Bucket Challenge (Martin Hinshelwood)
Retrospective on the Aug 14th VS Online outage (BrianH)
Migrating source from Perforce to Git on VSO (MartinH)
You can’t use WITADMIN on versions older than TFS 2010 (Martin H)
Avoid the Bug as Task anti-pattern in TFS (Martin H)
Upgrade/Publish TFS 2013 Process Templates with PowerShell (Gordon Beeming)
rosetta rendezvous with a comet … after 10 years of flight and 6,205,617,163km travelled.

willy’s cave

exciting “free” event if (and only if) you are in the UK

Quoted from ALM With Visual Studio & TFS 2013 - Edinburgh: “Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server (TFS) provide an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution that covers the range of software development activities from requirements capture through to development and onto testing and release into production. This free event will walk through these areas using Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013, and will cover most new features, as well as the existing capabilities that these build upon.”

tell us about your success stories!

Are you aware of a success story in which the Visual Studio ALM Rangers and/or their solutions have accelerated the adoption of Visual Studio, unblocked an engagement and/or resulted in a happy user? See Tell us about your success stories for details.

review our (your) solutions!

When you download one or more of our solutions please invest a few seconds to rate and optionally review the solution on CodePlex or the Visual Studio Gallery. We need your candid feedback and support in terms of Star ratings!

A download spike during July, for the Fakes guidance, skewed the past-30 days download average. The next graph shows the top 10 solutions, in terms of downloads, during August: