Visual Studio Lab Management team blog

In an effort to reduce the number of places you need to search for ALM Content including...

Date: 04/09/2012

Brian Keller has published a Virtual Machine with Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview bits and...

Date: 11/11/2011

The Developer Preview that was released in Sep 2011 has a set of new features for Lab Management....

Date: 11/08/2011

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

Have an idea for the product and wondering what is the best way to report it? Think something is...

Date: 07/14/2011

The ALM Rangers team has produced a comprehensive guidance for Visual Studio Lab Management.This...

Date: 06/24/2011

A QFE for Visual Studio 2010 testing tools, which fixes some important issues faced by customers, is...

Date: 06/23/2011

One of the common issues regularly faced by our users is how to test their application in both IE...

Date: 05/26/2011

Both Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 and Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 SP1 work with the...

Date: 03/27/2011

UPDATE: In Visual Studio 11, we have introduced rich support for creating physical environments...

Date: 02/15/2011

Once you create/compose a virtual environment, you can connect to it for doing manual testing etc....

Date: 11/08/2010

We get a lot of questions around the support matrix for Lab Management in TFS 2010 – does it only...

Date: 10/27/2010

If you haven’t noticed already, we have updated the lab management videos to add a narration and...

Date: 10/27/2010

As you may be aware, Lab Management GDR is now available. In sync with this release, I am happy to...

Date: 09/08/2010

We are happy to announce that the General Distribution Release for lab management in Visual Studio...

Date: 08/19/2010

Today, at the Visual Studio Live event in Seattle, Dave Mendlen – Senior Director of Developer...

Date: 08/04/2010

Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 setup guidelines explains the steps required for first time setup...

Date: 07/01/2010

In continuation with our topology series, this time we will pick a topology with multiple ATs, DTs...

Date: 06/02/2010

[Last updated on: Jan 3, 2011] As you plan to adopt VS Lab Management 2010 for managing your labs,...

Date: 05/12/2010

In this Part3 of this topology blog series, we will talk about a topology that has TMG proxy and...

Date: 05/07/2010

Note: Cross posted from Nothing geeky.... Permalink In one of the earlier post, we saw how to...

Date: 05/02/2010

Note: Cross posted from Nothing geeky.... Permalink The Lab management end-to-end workflow works...

Date: 05/02/2010

In Part1 of this blog series, we talked about a topology which had a load balancer and multiple...

Date: 04/23/2010

In order to deploy your build and run your tests on a virtual environment, you need to enable the...

Date: 04/20/2010

As you might be aware, Visual Studio 2010 RTM is now available!  In sync with this release we...

Date: 04/19/2010

If you are using Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 RC, the attached Word document covers the Lab...

Date: 04/03/2010

The article will cover various ways in which customers can setup their topologies for testing with...

Date: 03/29/2010

Note: Cross posted from aseemb's blog. Permalink In Lab Management RC release, you might be using...

Date: 03/22/2010

Note: Cross posted from Nothing geeky.... Permalink One of the common requirement while running E2E...

Date: 02/25/2010

Note: Cross posted from aseemb's blog. Permalink Overview Lab Service account is newly introduced in...

Date: 02/22/2010

Upgrading TFS and Lab Management from Beta2 to RC requires a few steps. After working with several...

Date: 02/21/2010

In the last post, we created the “system under test” and ensured that the TCM server has information...

Date: 02/16/2010

Configuring the “system under test” in VS The system under test for the purpose of this walkthrough...

Date: 02/16/2010

Configure the TFS VM: In our setup, we will configure TFS server, the build controller, build agent...

Date: 02/16/2010

We had a previous walkthro that shows lab management in action with VS2010 Beta2. This walk thru is...

Date: 02/16/2010

[UPDATE(7/1/10)] This VHD expires on 30th June 2010, click here for the updated version. Visual...

Date: 02/11/2010

UPDATE (27 Oct 2010): All videos are now updated with a narration, and uploaded as part of MSDN ‘How...

Date: 02/11/2010

We are happy to announce the availability of an updated version of VM Prep Tool for Visual Studio...

Date: 02/11/2010

We have found that in some cases the registration of an upgraded build agents fails, with the...

Date: 02/09/2010

Hello, I am Dinesh Bhat, test manager for the team that builds Visual Studio Lab Management...

Date: 02/09/2010

As mentioned in Somasegar's blog and Jason Zander's blog, the much anticipated Release Candidate...

Date: 02/08/2010

TFS 2010 Release Candidate (RC) will be released later this month, and Lab Management will be...

Date: 02/08/2010

If you plan to setup Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 RC on a self-contained isolated machine...

Date: 02/07/2010

The TFS Rangers team has just published a guide to help you get ready to upgrade from TFS 2008 to...

Date: 01/13/2010

Note: Cross posted from Nothing geeky.... Permalink Lab management 2010 helps in automating the...

Date: 01/08/2010

In a previous post - Getting started with Lab Management (Part 4), we saw how to deploy a simple...

Date: 12/31/2009

Team Foundation Server Best Practice Analyser (BPA) a diagnostic tool (released as part of TFS 2010...

Date: 12/02/2009

It has been almost 6 weeks since Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was released. Some of you have already...

Date: 12/02/2009

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