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You can find the latest flight plan snapshot at aka.ms/vsarFlightPlan news TFS Upgrade Guide has been retired on CodePlex and moved to MSDN.com and the team blog: MSDN: Upgrade your deployment to the latest version of TFS Blogs: New Elements of TFS 2015 that influence an upgrade, Short Lead Checklist, Long Lead Preparations, Long Lead Checklist, and Post Upgrade Checklist Version Control (ex Branching and Merging) Guide has been retired on CodePlex. Watch the space for upcoming articles on VS.com and enjoy the first few supporting blogs in the meantime: Alternative Branching Strategies and Frequently Asked Questions Branching Strategies: MAIN Only and Simplicity Rules, Development Isolation, Feature Isolation, Release Isolation, and Servicing & Release Isolation TFVC: Create a new local workspace, Use the local workspace in online mode, Use the local workspace in offline mode, and Explore the diff and merge tools New on Channel9:  Monthly Catch-up: S89 and VSO Extension Project Template  New on MSDN Magazine: Enabling DevOps on the Microsoft Stack new community widgets More cool, productive and recommended community widgets: AppVeyor Extension Visual Studio Online Extension Project Template 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: Hassan Fadili delivered another community event in Morocco for MSP’s and professionals: https://www.facebook.com/events/953070888082257/ Ricardo Serradas and Vinicius Moura delivered their first (of hopefully many) Sprint 88 - Improvements in Kanban, tests and pull request session. interesting reads general Self Organizing Teams - what does it really mean? Announcing Git-LFS on all VSO Git repos Pocket Dialing Paul SonarQube Integration Plans VS Online Update – Sept 18 2015 Ignite New Zealand demo prep:Step 1, Step 2 Microsoft DevOps workshop in a city near you Git Bye Summer team blog (aka.ms.vsarblog) Explore the “Surface Owner” VSO Extension - 1. Getting started ¿Habla Español? … Git para usuarios de TFVC Why you should not DELETE after a MOVE if history is important!     your thoughts on the new content? What are your thoughts on the discoverability and alignment of new content on MSDN, i.e. upgrade your deployment to the latest version of TFS, and on our team blog, i.e. Alternative Branching Strategies? Please add a comment below or contact us here. 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 ratings!

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