Preview of Release Management

When you develop a new solution, it’s useless until you deploy it to a production environment where users can actually use it. Before you can do it, you typically need a few extra deployments to test environments. It takes time that people could use for working on new features and it often require many manual …

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VSO process customization

As you all know, you can either install Team Foundation Server (TFS) on promise, or use the cloud-hosted service called Visual Studio Online (VSO). They both offer very similar, but not exactly identical capabilities. Some features of TFS are not supported by VSO; on the other hand, VSO gets new features more rapidly than TFS …

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Local TF Build + VSO + Dynamics AX

In a recent post, I explained that you may want to use a local Team Foundation Build server with Visual Studio Online. Here I wanted to show how to install and configure it, but then I realized that it’s already covered on a few other places. Therefore I won’t repeat the same thing again and …

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Local TF Build with VSO – Intro

If you want to use a proper source control system with Dynamics AX, you have in fact only one option: Team Foundation Server (TFS). MorphX VCS can’t cover all versioning needs (because it works only for resources in AOT) and it lacks many features, and Visual SourceSafe is not supported anymore. Because installation and maintenance …

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VSO licensing changes: more for less

The latest news about licensing of Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server is truly exciting. The first great news is that VSO licenses will be much cheaper, decreasing from $20/user/month (for the basic tier) to $8-$2, depending on the number of licenses. And you still have five users for free, free stakeholder licenses and …

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