TFS Config - Colin's ALM Corner

Managing Credentials and Secrets in VSTS Release Management

Releases almost always require some kind of credentials - from service credentials to database usernames and passwords. There are a number of ways to manage credentials in VSTS release management. In this post I'll look at a couple of common techniques. For brevity, I'm

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Auditing VSTS Client Access IPs

Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is a cloud platform. That means it's publicly accessible from anywhere - at least, by default. However, Enterprises that are moving from TFS to VSTS may want to ensure that VSTS is only accessed from a corporate network or

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Enable SAFe Features in Existing Team Projects After Upgrading to TFS 2015

TFS 2015 has almost reached RTM! If you upgrade to CTP2, you’ll see a ton of new features, not least of which are significant backlog and board improvements, the identity control, Team Project rename, expanded features for Basic users, the new Build Engine,

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TF50299: The value named ‘xxx’ was not found when evaluating a condition

Recently while working at a customer, we configured mail alerts for TFS. We checked that the SMTP server was correct and that we could send mail from the application tiers – everything looked correct, but still there were no mails. In the event log, we

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Load Balancing Application Tiers on VMWare

Most posts about load balancing TFS Application Tiers using NLB use either physical servers or Hyper-V virtual servers. So you would think that you can do the same using VMWare for the Application Tiers, right? Wrong. NLB doesn’t play nicely with VMWare out-of-the-box