Release Management has been moving at a eager pace at Microsoft which you can see today on Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). I have been waiting for this same experience to be available on-premises and I’m happy to say it is included with the Release Candidate of TFS 2015 Update 2! Lots of new release […]
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Upgrade SQL Server 2012 for TFS 2013 to SQL Server 2014
June 30, 2014 
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Starting July 1st, Microsoft will be adding SQL Server 2014 to the list of license grants for Team Foundation Server 2013. SQL Server 2014 is supported by TFS 2013 with the caveat that it has increased hardware requirements compared with previous versions. Microsoft also has a KB Article titled “Performance decreases in TFS 2013 Update […]
Continue reading Versioning your SQL Server Database using Team Build and Release Management
June 17, 2014 5 Comments
You’ve versioned your assemblies using Team Build before… I’m sure you are all aware of the nice little PowerShell script “ApplyVersionToAssemblies.ps1” that updates your C# AssemblyInfo.cs files, you can find it on codeplex here. It is part of a great project named Community TFS Build Extensions which provides a place for build engineers to share […]
Continue reading Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 and SQL Server 2014 Database Deployments
June 10, 2014 9 Comments
Visual Studio 2013 comes with built-in support to manage database projects, the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) were updated in March 2014 to include support for SQL Server 2014. If you have Visual Studio 2012 use the SQL | Check for Updates inside Visual Studio or download. If you have Visual Studio 2013 use Tools […]
Continue reading Get Ready for TFS 2013.2 (Update 2) RC Upgrade Weekend
February 19, 2014 1 Comment
2014/02/26:: Updated to include RC vs. CTP , list of RC products (go-live), CTP products (test), download link Are you excited about Team Foundation Server 2013.2 (Update 2) RC? Are you comfortable running pre-release software in production? If so, you might want to consider scheduling your TFS upgrade for Friday February 28th and Saturday March […]
Continue readingVisual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP 1 Available
February 5, 2014 0 Comments
Do NOT install the CTP on a production server (TFS, Release Management, etc.), you cannot upgrade to future CTPs or releases, nor can you uninstall a CTP to go back to your previous release. Visual Studio CTPs can of course be upgraded so feel free to update your workstation unless you are working with LightSwitch […]
Continue reading Applying Update 1 to Release Management for Visual Studio 2013
February 5, 2014 0 Comments
Update 1 was released for Visual Studio 2013 on January 17th, 2014, while no Update 1 existed for TFS 2013 Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 did. The public downloads for RM 2013 Update 1 are located here. You can also get the Update 1 files on MSDN here and here. The major differences between […]
Continue reading Internet Explorer 11 User Agent Definition for Visual Studio Load Tests
January 30, 2014 1 Comment
If you want to add Internet Explorer 11 as a Browser Type when you configure a Load Test with Visual Studio 2013 you simply have to create a file named IE11.browser with the following contents: <Browser Name=”Internet Explorer 11.0″ MaxConnections=”6″> <Headers> <Header Name=”User-Agent” Value=”Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko” /> <Header Name=”Accept” Value=”*/*” /> <Header Name=”Accept-Language” Value=”{{$IEAcceptLanguage}}” /> <Header Name=”Accept-Encoding” Value=”GZIP” /> </Headers> </Browser> Save the file to the following directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio […]
Continue reading Need a New Years Resolution? Implement Release Management Server for TFS 2013
January 7, 2014 1 Comment
Part 1 I know most of the readers here know that a build server was never meant to do deployments of your software. During the middle part of 2013 Microsoft acquired the InRelease business unit from InCycle Software, this software product has since been integrated into the Visual Studio 2013 family of products as we […]
Continue readingHosting the VS 2013 ALM VM in a Windows Azure Virtual Machine
December 30, 2013 8 Comments
I am recommending the use of a Windows Azure Virtual Network for this exercise so the virtual machine does not have any ports open to the internet (public facing). If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding the steps in the article feel free to leave a comment. Steps we’ll be performing in this […]
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