Visual Studio Lab Management team blog

Network isolation does not work on Windows Server 2008 R2 hosts if you are using Beta2 version of Visual Studio Team Lab Management. When you create an environment with network isolation on a 2008 R2 host and start it, you will get the following error...

This posts walks you through how to create VMs from the Win2K8R2 vhds you can download from here. If you are an SCVMM / Hyper-V expert, you can skip this section. Launch the downloaded exe C:\vmimages> "Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Evaluation...

In the last post, we created the “system under test” and ensured that the TCM server has information on how to run these tests in a test environment. This post explains how to get the tests run automatically as part of a scheduled build / deploy / test...

Configuring the “system under test” in VS The system under test for the purpose of this walkthrough is a simple calculator web service with its unit tests. Start by creating a new team project in VS. Connect to the TFS server and create a team project...

Configure the TFS VM: In our setup, we will configure TFS server, the build controller, build agent to do the build process, test controller which will manage test execution and also as the dev box where we will write the code. This can be a VM in the...

  Lab management is a new addition to the Visual Studio family with VS2010. The product uses virtualization to build and manage labs in the dev / test environment. The promise of the product is three fold. Using virtualization, machine utilization...

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Visual Studio 2010 / .NET 4.0 Framework Beta2 was announced yesterday. MSDN subscribers can download it immediately with general availability on Oct 22nd. Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 is available as part of this beta release. There are numerous...

Important : The instructions in this post only apply to the Beta2 version of Team Foundation Server 2010. For Beta1, see this post . If you are upgrading your Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010...

You are testing a complex multi-tiered application. You create different configurations, multiple data sets, and test the different combinations in a user-flow. You come across a hard-to-find bug. You file it and are pleased that your effort was well...

To create virtual environments in Microsoft Test and Lab Manager, you first need to have virtual machines in your project library share. Lab Management does not provide the functionality to create fresh virtual machines. You have to use Hyper-V or SCVMM...

How are the virtual machines in a Lab Environment connected to each other and to other machines? Can I have physical hosts that are distributed across networks? What is the significance of network location in Team Foundation Administration Console? What...

Today as we build more and more complex applications the complexity of development and testing environments have increased significantly. Development and testing of complex N tier application on single machine results in late discovery of bugs in pre...

Let’s look at an important application lifecycle management (ALM) scenario – end to end automation for building, deploying and testing a multi-tier application. Application deployment for a multi-tier application typically involves · provisioning of...

If you are upgrading your VSTS 2008 server to VSTS 2010 Beta1, you will need to enable Lab Management for existing projects. Note: Starting Beta2 there is no need for these steps and they are part of the standard TFS upgrade. So, first upgrade your...

Today, we have released Beta 1 , and it is now available for download. We encourage customers and partners to download and evaluate the Beta, which ultimately results in changes and improvements to the final product. Beta 1 represents a substantial amount...

Technorati Tags: Lab Management , Virtual Machines , ALM , Environment This is first of a series of blogs we will be publishing over the next few weeks to cover breadth and depth of VSTS 2010 Lab Management. Visual Studio Team System 2010 Lab Management...

We've had a phenomenal last couple days at Tech Ed India 2009 (including some bloopers -- find it in the pics below :-) ) Starting from Steve Balmer’s keynote to sessions by Amit Chatterjee (on VSTS 2010), Tejasvi (on TFS), Infosys (Best Practices with...

Tech-ed North America is going on right now in Los Angeles and we from VSTS and lab management team have a big presence there. In case you are attending Tech-ed, we have 4 VSTS booths in the DPR/ALM area of the Technical Learning Center. One of these...

stepinforum stepinforum StepIn Hyderabad Chapter meet Venue: Microsoft Campus Date: 27 th April 2009-04-29 Time: 5pm Approximately 100 odd software professionals from the city met at Microsoft campus to attend the StepIn Hyderabad...

Tanuj Vohra (Partner Director of Program Management, Visual Studio Test Business) has recently published a nice article on Trends in Software Testing on ITMagz.com. It is summarizing the current trends and techniques of software testing. Test Labs Virtualization...

As we continue to prepare for Beta 1, we continue to talk with customers, demo the product and get feedback. The feedback is usually:”Hey, this is great stuff, when can I get it? Can I start work with Beta1 for my new project that is just starting?” ...

Long time has passed since the last post… The team is working hard to get our bug count to zero, getting Beta1 ready for customers. A lot of hard work polishing the product and making sure it will be stable and have good performance. There is still some...

I (Shay Mandel) have recently made a series of customer visits in Israel. I have met R&D managers, QA managers and CTOs from 3 ISVs/Start-Ups, 2 IT organizations (one large insurance company and one governmental department), and 2 MVPs - Guy Kolbis...

I (Vishal) have just completed the Team Lab session in Virtual Tech days using the slide deck you can find as attachment to this post. Session went well with lots of questions and participation, we had to end the session due to time constraints but...