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Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Rangers

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Make a Group Team Administrator in VSTS/TFS

Make a Group Team Administrator in VSTS/TFS

In case your organisation is depending on an Identity and Access Management tool to assign rights to the tools in the toolchain, then it's likely that all of your permissions are handled through Group assignments and not to individuals. Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server allow rights assignments

Continuous Integration

Global DevOps BootCamp 2017

Yesterday we had a blast. It's the only way to describe it. What started with a small idea over beer in Seattle by a few genius minds, ended up catering to 1500 participants workwide learning about Continuous Integration, Delivery and the promise of Containers and Serverless to make it easier

ALM Rangers ship the TFS Reporting guidance books and samples v1

It has taken a lot of people a long time to work on an extensive guide on extending the TFS reporting capabilities and getting some report data out of the Team Foundation Service. Grab your copy while it's hot [http://vsarreportguide.codeplex.com/]! [http://vsarreportguide.codeplex.com/releases/view/115136]

Visual Studio 2012

First ALM Ranger guidance in Ebook format

By based on a Visual Studio User Voicerequest [http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2639467-make-alm-ranger-guides-available-on-msdn-and-ebook] and a lot of internal discussions we, the ALM Rangers, are proud to present our very first official ebook formatted guidance [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2013/05/29/better-unit-testing-with-microsoft-fakes-guide-a-la-mobi-and-epub.aspx?

Bring back the "Create Unit Tests" feature from Visual Studio 2010?

There's a feature request on User Voice that requests Microsoft to bring back the "Create Unit Test" menu item which was removed in Visual Studio 2012 [http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2748862-add-create-unit-tests-menu-option-back-] . I've seen it come up as a potential Ranger solution and it's been getting a lot

New Tfs Team Tools beta release

Mattias, the main contributor to the Tfs Team Tools has published a new beta release which includes the changes I'd added to the project. So now you can download a pre-built copy of the tools that includes the ability to update user and team images and convert existing security groups

Team Foundation Server

Converting a Group to a Team in TFS 2012

Update * Download the latest version here. [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jessehouwing.azure-boards-teams-tool] Some time ago I blogged about the few lines of code required to convert a TFS Group to a Team [https://jessehouwing.net/vsts-tfs-convert-security-group-to-team]. It's now available as part of the latest version of the Tfs

Team Foundation Server

Convert a TFS 2010 Group to a 2012 Team after upgrade

Update I've since uploaded a patch to the TfsTeam quick response sample to also include functionality to convert a Group to a Team. [https://jessehouwing.net/vsts-tfs-team-tools-convert-security-group-to-team] With TFS 2010 it was already a common practice to create security groups as subgroups of the Contributors group to define teams. When

Set your TFS profile or team image from the commandline

Update * I've since uploaded a patch to the TfsTeam quick response sample to also include functionality to convert a Group to a Team. [https://jessehouwing.net/vsts-tfs-team-tools-convert-security-group-to-team] * Download the latest beta version here. [http://tfsteamtools.codeplex.com/releases/view/101316] One of the cool new features of Team Web Access

Install Word4TFS on a machine with Office 2013 and Visual Studio 2012 (UNSUPPORTED)

The Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Rangers have released a new version of the Word4TFS add-in for Word. But if you're like me, and you've already upgraded to Visual Studio 2012 and Office 2013, then your out of luck. Both are not yet supported. But, they probably work just fine. We

Visual Studio 2012

Windows 8, Visual Studio 2012, Team Foundation Server 2012 and ALM Ranger Guidance now available!

It has been a long wait for some, others, like me, have been running the beta's for months and have been impatiently waiting for the RTM release of all the tools of our trade. Yesterday Microsoft released the following products to the MSDN developer audience [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/

Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Rangers

I just joined the ALM Rangers program

Last week I found an invite to the Microsoft ALM Rangers group in my mailbox. And I'm happy to say that I didn't have to think twice to answer with an affirmative yes! You can readmy Ranger introduction here [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2012/07/03/