I have problem to connect release management client to visual studio team services.
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I have only problem to connect with visual studio team services, but its working with team foundation service. Please help/guide me, where I am wrong, thanks for your valuable time and effort in advance.
The Release Management client is for Release Management Server, the on-premise product. Visual Studio Team Services does not support that. The Release hub in VSTS is a completely separate, redesigned release experience. The on-premise Release Management Server product and the VSTS/TFS 2015.2 Release hub are completely different tools that serve the same purpose.
You should be using the Release hub in VSTS, not the Release Management server/client product.
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Recently we have upgraded our TFS server to the latest 2019 version.
As the Admin, I was trying to install the downloaded Test Manager extension just like we did in TFS2017 and TFS2018.
However, I was unable to install it even with full access and TFS test plan subscription.
This extension does not support the version of the Server you are
currently using. See Works With for supported Server versions.
What should I do, am I missing something? Why it not work with TFS2019? Appreciate your help.
This is the expected behavior when you try to install the extension in Azure DevOps Server 2019. You do not need to install extra Test Manger for Azure DevOps Server 2019.
The official link is also clearly: This extension does not support the version of the Server you are currently using. See Works With for supported Server versions.
It only work Works with
Team Foundation Server 2017
Team Foundation Server 2018
Note:
Manual testers do not need this extension and can execute tests as a
Basic user in an Azure DevOps organization/collection. Read more on
this here.
This extension is available out-of-the-box in Azure DevOps Services and Azure DevOps Server (2019 onwards) and hence doesn't need to be acquired for them.
We strongly recommend you to use Azure Test Plans or the Test hub in Azure DevOps Service/Server (a fully featured Test management solution) over Microsoft Test Manager for all your test management requirements. There will be no new versions of Microsoft Test Manager.Microsoft Test Manager 2017 (which shipped with Microsoft Visual Studio 2017) is the last version.
More details please take a look at our official tutorial here.
Besides, to use Azure Test Plans in Azure DevOps service you need some License requirements
Azure Test Plans uses an access level called Basic + Test Plans, which is available from Azure DevOps.
For the Manual testing permissions and access suggest refer this link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/test/manual-test-permissions?view=azure-devops#license-requirements
Hope this helps.
As mentiond in the Extension page:
This extension is available out-of-the-box in Azure DevOps Services and Azure DevOps Server (2019 onwards) and hence doesn't need to be acquired for them.
So you don't to install it, it's exist :) just go to the "Test Pans" tab in the left menu (maybe you need give permissions in the settings).
We have Release Management for VS 2013 running for all our builds and releases on-premise. We are not ready to publish our systems to Azure Cloud yet, but would like to migrate our source-code to Azure DevOps Services in the mean time. We are also not ready to publish via Azure DevOps Pipelines to agents installed on our servers. Is it possible to have your source-code in Azure DevOps Repos, build the source using either Microsoft-hosted or self-hosted agents and then have Release Management for VS2013 release them to our environments?
I am able to do normal published via Azure DevOps Services totally to Azure Cloud, and even to on-premises with distributed agents running on servers, with test applications, but this would mean I have to recreate every build definitions, we have created, again in Azure DevOps, and also that we would bypass our Release Management server.
We would like to stick with Release Manager for now for releases, but want to migrate our source-code and work-items into Azure DevOps and build source in Azure DevOps Pipelines.
It's unlikely to work. Release Management Server 2013 only supported XAML builds. 2015 had support for JSON/visual designer builds, but the support wasn't particularly robust. I'm not even 100% sure that RM Server can communicate with a modern Azure DevOps instance. You're using a 6 year old tool that's been deprecated and unsupported for several years; you're not going to find a lot of options to keep it working properly with modern, supported tools.
There is a tool that can extract PowerShell deployment scripts from RM Server that can be used (with some degree of rework) in an Azure DevOps pipeline, but it's not a perfect solution. And I say that as the primary developer of that tool.
I have an organization (all my projects - Only work items, no code) on Team Services (free edition). I have now started collaborating with another team who has a licensed TFS. I need to move all my projects to TFS.
Is that possible? Please help.
It's possible with Azure DevOps Migration Tools utility.
Azure DevOps Migration Tools allow you to bulk edit data in Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Azure DevOps. It has many names depending on what you are trying to achieve. It can be used to:
Migrate data from TFS to TFS
Migrate data from TFS to Azure DevOps Services
Migrate data from Azure DevOps Services to TFS
Bulk update in TFS or Azure DevOps Services
You can also take a look at this tool.
There is also a paid service that can do it.
Is there a tool available that I can install on my machine for TFS administrative tasks without having to log in to the TFS server? I found one same question - Accessing Administration Console in TFS - but it was from 2011. We are using TFS 2012 and Visual studio 2008.
Thanks.
Unfortunately the TFS Admin Console can only be run on the server (unlike most other admin tools like SSMS which can be run remotely).
We (the ALM MVP's) have asked Microsoft for this capability in the past, so they know about it, it just hasn't been a priority to implement yet.
Tfs sidekicks will cover some of your request, the tfs administration tool will also help with user accounts. Admin tool can found on codeplex
Is it possible to use Microsoft's Release Management product (formerly InCycle's InRelease) with Visual Studio Team Services. (Not Team Foundation Server)
I know it's possible to configure an on-premises Team Foundation Build server and point that at Visual Studio Team Services, but I havent' been able to find anything about Release Management.
This is not supported as of now. RM Update 2 will bring the potential to automate the creation of a release while running a Team Services build when the build agent is running on prem (but no real integration between RM and Team Services).
Complete support for Team Services is coming later this year.