Visual Studio Lab Management team blog
Migrating to the Visual Studio ALM blog: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/
In an effort to reduce the number of places you need to search for ALM Content including...
Date: 04/09/2012
Lab Management walkthrough using Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Virtual Machine
Brian Keller has published a Virtual Machine with Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview bits and...
Date: 11/11/2011
Lab Management in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview
The Developer Preview that was released in Sep 2011 has a set of new features for Lab Management....
Date: 11/08/2011
How to run the same test in different Lab Environments?
I will try to address today a common query by lot of users of Visual Studio Lab Management on how to...
Date: 09/26/2011
Enter/Vote for your favorite feature suggestions - UserVoice site is here!
Have an idea for the product and wondering what is the best way to report it? Think something is...
Date: 07/14/2011
ALM Rangers have published Visual Studio Lab Management guidance
The ALM Rangers team has produced a comprehensive guidance for Visual Studio Lab Management.This...
Date: 06/24/2011
New QFE for Visual Studio 2010 testing tools
A QFE for Visual Studio 2010 testing tools, which fixes some important issues faced by customers, is...
Date: 06/23/2011
Configuration matrix testing using Visual Studio Lab Management
One of the common issues regularly faced by our users is how to test their application in both IE...
Date: 05/26/2011
Support for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 hosts and SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1
Both Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 and Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 SP1 work with the...
Date: 03/27/2011
Running Build-Deploy-Test workflow on physical environments
UPDATE: In Visual Studio 11, we have introduced rich support for creating physical environments...
Date: 02/15/2011
Enabling Host based connection for virtual environments
Once you create/compose a virtual environment, you can connect to it for doing manual testing etc....
Date: 11/08/2010
Does Lab Management support non-Hyper-V platforms?
We get a lot of questions around the support matrix for Lab Management in TFS 2010 – does it only...
Date: 10/27/2010
Updated lab management videos
If you haven’t noticed already, we have updated the lab management videos to add a narration and...
Date: 10/27/2010
VM Prep Tool for Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 GDR is now available!
As you may be aware, Lab Management GDR is now available. In sync with this release, I am happy to...
Date: 09/08/2010
Lab Management General Distribution Release is now available
We are happy to announce that the General Distribution Release for lab management in Visual Studio...
Date: 08/19/2010
General Availability of Visual Studio Lab Management announced
Today, at the Visual Studio Live event in Seattle, Dave Mendlen – Senior Director of Developer...
Date: 08/04/2010
Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 – Host group and Library Share management
Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 setup guidelines explains the steps required for first time setup...
Date: 07/01/2010
Setting up various topologies to test with Visual Studio Lab Management – Part 4
In continuation with our topology series, this time we will pick a topology with multiple ATs, DTs...
Date: 06/02/2010
Planning considerations for setting up a lab managed by Visual Studio Lab Management 2010
[Last updated on: Jan 3, 2011] As you plan to adopt VS Lab Management 2010 for managing your labs,...
Date: 05/12/2010
Setting up various topologies to test with Visual Studio Lab Management – Part 3
In this Part3 of this topology blog series, we will talk about a topology that has TMG proxy and...
Date: 05/07/2010
Creating a bug when test fails in E2E
Note: Cross posted from Nothing geeky.... Permalink In one of the earlier post, we saw how to...
Date: 05/02/2010
Lab Build agents – How it works
Note: Cross posted from Nothing geeky.... Permalink The Lab management end-to-end workflow works...
Date: 05/02/2010
Setting up various topologies to test with Visual Studio Lab Management – Part 2
In Part1 of this blog series, we talked about a topology which had a load balancer and multiple...
Date: 04/23/2010
Setting up agents/controllers for lab
In order to deploy your build and run your tests on a virtual environment, you need to enable the...
Date: 04/20/2010
Updated VM Prep Tool for Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 now Available
As you might be aware, Visual Studio 2010 RTM is now available! In sync with this release we...
Date: 04/19/2010
Lab Management Supplement for TFS 2010 RC to RTM Upgrade Guide
If you are using Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 RC, the attached Word document covers the Lab...
Date: 04/03/2010
Setting up various topologies to test with Visual Studio Lab Management – Part 1
The article will cover various ways in which customers can setup their topologies for testing with...
Date: 03/29/2010
Link to virtual environment
Note: Cross posted from aseemb's blog. Permalink In Lab Management RC release, you might be using...
Date: 03/22/2010
Creating a bug on test failure ….
Note: Cross posted from Nothing geeky.... Permalink One of the common requirement while running E2E...
Date: 02/25/2010
What is Lab Service Account?
Note: Cross posted from aseemb's blog. Permalink Overview Lab Service account is newly introduced in...
Date: 02/22/2010
Beta2 to RC Upgrade Checklist
Upgrading TFS and Lab Management from Beta2 to RC requires a few steps. After working with several...
Date: 02/21/2010
Getting started with Lab Management – VS2010 RC (Part 4)
In the last post, we created the “system under test” and ensured that the TCM server has information...
Date: 02/16/2010
Getting started with Lab Management – VS2010 RC (Part 3)
Configuring the “system under test” in VS The system under test for the purpose of this walkthrough...
Date: 02/16/2010
Getting started with Lab Management – VS2010 RC (Part 2)
Configure the TFS VM: In our setup, we will configure TFS server, the build controller, build agent...
Date: 02/16/2010
Getting started with Lab Management – VS2010 RC (Part 1)
We had a previous walkthro that shows lab management in action with VS2010 Beta2. This walk thru is...
Date: 02/16/2010
Lab Management Walkthrough VHD
[UPDATE(7/1/10)] This VHD expires on 30th June 2010, click here for the updated version. Visual...
Date: 02/11/2010
Visual Studio Lab Management videos
UPDATE (27 Oct 2010): All videos are now updated with a narration, and uploaded as part of MSDN ‘How...
Date: 02/11/2010
VM Prep Tool for Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 RC is now available
We are happy to announce the availability of an updated version of VM Prep Tool for Visual Studio...
Date: 02/11/2010
Additional Upgrade Script for Fixing Build Agent Registration
We have found that in some cases the registration of an upgraded build agents fails, with the...
Date: 02/09/2010
Dogfooding Visual Studio Lab Management 2010
Hello, I am Dinesh Bhat, test manager for the team that builds Visual Studio Lab Management...
Date: 02/09/2010
What is new for Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 RC
As mentioned in Somasegar's blog and Jason Zander's blog, the much anticipated Release Candidate...
Date: 02/08/2010
Lab Management 2010 Beta2 to RC Upgrade Guide
TFS 2010 Release Candidate (RC) will be released later this month, and Lab Management will be...
Date: 02/08/2010
Configuring network location for self-contained one-box setup of VS Lab Management 2010 RC
If you plan to setup Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 RC on a self-contained isolated machine...
Date: 02/07/2010
Rangers Publish TFS Upgrade Guide
The TFS Rangers team has just published a guide to help you get ready to upgrade from TFS 2008 to...
Date: 01/13/2010
Macros for E2E deployment
Note: Cross posted from Nothing geeky.... Permalink Lab management 2010 helps in automating the...
Date: 01/08/2010
Deploying a multi-tier application using Lab Management with MS Deploy & VSDBCMD
In a previous post - Getting started with Lab Management (Part 4), we saw how to deploy a simple...
Date: 12/31/2009
TFS 2010 Best Practice Analyser Beta2 is now available
Team Foundation Server Best Practice Analyser (BPA) a diagnostic tool (released as part of TFS 2010...
Date: 12/02/2009
Time for feedback about Beta 2
It has been almost 6 weeks since Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was released. Some of you have already...
Date: 12/02/2009