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Feb 12, 2014
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Announcing new Application Lifecycle readiness content by the ALM Rangers

Willy-P. Schaub

The ALM Rangers have been involved with a bunch of recent Visual Studio 2013 readiness content to help people get up to speed. 1. The Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes – eBook update v1.2 .  Big thanks to Michael Fourie, we have been able to action the backlog of community feedback for recent versions and package as part of the v1.2 e...

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Jan 31, 2014
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How to modify the UpgradeTemplate.xaml to enable releasing from a build

Leo Vildosola

Release Management provides the option to trigger a release from a build. But to use this feature, some additional logic has to be added to the default build process template. You can refer to my previous post on doing this with the default build process templates for TFS 2013. This article details how to make the necessary modifications specifical...

DevOpsAzure DevOps ServerCI/CD
Jan 21, 2014
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New TFS book soon available: Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization

Charles Sterling

Never ceases to amaze me how some of our community rock stars are able to discover and do so much with almost no contact with the Team Foundation Server development team…And just to make sure this phenomena doesn’t make sense; there also seems to be an inverse relationship with these folks and their remoteness!  In either case from my interact...

DevOpsAzure DevOps Server
Dec 19, 2013
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Customization and configuration in VS ALM

Kathryn Elliott

With Visual Studio ALM and TFS, you gain access to a wealth of tools, many of which you configure or can customize. Common areas that team's customize include team alerts, team home page, shared queries, and test platforms. For on-premises deployments, you can also add fields, customize work item types (WITs), and Agile planning tools.  Below you'...

DevOpsAzure DevOps ServerGit & Version Control
Dec 19, 2013
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How to configure Team Foundation Server with Release Management

Roopesh Nair

  Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 (RM) is tightly integrated with TFS. In order to communicate with TFS, RM uses a service account to access different functionality of TFS. Here are the necessary minimal permissions that the account must have. If possible, to keep things simple, we recommend an account that is part o...

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Dec 9, 2013
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How to modify the TFS 2013 default build process template (GitTemplate.12.xaml & TfvcTemplate.12.xaml) to enable releasing from a build

Leo Vildosola

Release Management provides the option to trigger a release from a build. But to use this feature, some additional logic has to be added to the default build process template. This article details how to make the necessary modifications. If you are currently using the TFS 2013 default build process template If you are using the TFS 2013 default b...

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Dec 4, 2013
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TF255356: Known Issue with Configuring TFS 2013 RTM Express and Basic

AndreaMS

This post is to report a known issue with configuration in Team Foundation Server 2013 RTM.  The issue is specific to configuring TFS Basic, Express, or Upgrade on a machine with SQL Express 2008 R2 SP1 or SP2 installed.  There is a workaround, which is outlined below.   Description If you try to configure TFS 2013 R...

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Oct 25, 2013
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TFS 2013 process templates get a name change

Kathryn Elliott

With the latest Team Foundation Service update and with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 RTM, we have changed the names of all process templates. From now on, the process template names will reflect the version of Team Foundation Server that supports their download.The new names are: You  can access process guidance and c...

DevOpsAzure DevOps ServerAgile
Sep 19, 2013
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Announcing the availability of Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools

Charles Sterling

Today we have released Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 Power ToolsThis release supports To download this release please see:- Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools- Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 Build Extensions- Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 MSSCCI Pr...

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