DevTeach: Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management Session

Yesterday afternoon I did a session on Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management (targeted at the ITPro).  If you are looking for the links that were on the resources slide from the PowerPoint deck.  I will post them here (plus a few more).  Visual Studio ALM MVP Etienne Tremblay from Montreal also sat in on my session and participated in the conversation, he is delivering a session on Testing with Visual Studio 2010 and Lab Management at DevTeach today.  Adam Gallant of Microsoft Canada is giving a session on Debugging with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate using IntelliTrace.

• VHD Test Drive – Visual Studio Lab Management
• Lab Management (pre-release) 2010 Walkthrough
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1
• Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Service Pack 1
• Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (KB976932)
• Visual Studio 2010 and MSDN Licensing White Paper
• Visual Studio 2010 Feature Packs (MSDN Subscribers Only)
• Deployment Planning Services benefit (Software Assurance)
• Rangers Lab Management Guide
• Build-Deploy-Test workflow on physical environments
• August ‘11 TFS Power Tools
• Preventing Build Hangs and File Locking on Build Servers When Running Unit Tests
• Source Server and Symbol Server Support in TFS 2010
• Disabling the Visual Studio Source Server Security Warning Dialog
• Using Friendly DNS Names in Your TFS Environment
• Enabling a Host based connection for virtual environments
• How to run the same test in different Lab Environments

Microsoft Canada Contact Information

Adam Gallant
National Technology Specialist, Developer Tools and ALM
adamga@microsoft.com

Marco Di Virgilio
Developer Solutions Specialist
madivi@microsoft.com

Cumulative Updates

• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 TFS Compatibility GDR
• QFE for Visual Studio 2010 Testing Tools
• TFS 2010 SP1 Cumulative Update 1 (KB2580221)
• Update for VS 2010 SP1 Report Viewer (KB2549864)
• Update for VS 2010 SP1 (KB2529927)
• Update for VS 2010 SP1 Web Platform Tools
• Update for VS 2010 SP1 TFS Build Explorer (KB2522890)

Language Packs

• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Language Packs