ALM Rocks!

In Orchestrator 2012, you have runbook servers that execute your runbooks. Those runbook servers have throttling limits, that limit the maximum amount of concurrent runbooks that can run on a runbook server. By default, this value is 50, but it can be increased/decreased, depending on your environment. If your primary  [ Read More ]

So what is Application Insights? Here is the blurb from the Visual Studio website: Application Insights is a new service in Visual Studio Online that enables you to get a 360 degree view of your entire application. It helps you keep your application available and performing, and gives you insight  [ Read More ]

Let’s face it, now more than ever there is a LOT of data our there, about us, about our customers, about pretty much anything. And this data is being generated faster than ever before.  But the biggest problem is, how do we consume that data? How do we “unlock the  [ Read More ]

Brian Randell and I have been selected to present a pre-conference session at Microsoft Tech Ed 2014 in Houston, Texas.  The pre-cons are on Sunday, May 11th, and are focused, day-long classes covering specific topics. Brian and I are delivering the following: PRC02 | From Code to Release: DevOps for  [ Read More ]

What does a well-maintained Team Foundation Server Look Like? Running a high scale TFS Server VS 2012.4 and TFS 2012.4 RC 4 is available Top 5 reasons to use Team Foundation Service (by Brian Keller) Visual Studio 2013 shortcuts in Windows 8.1 Monitoring Web Applications – Continuous IntelliTrace DevOps –  [ Read More ]

Readers who remember Team System Rocks will remember I used to have a lot of videos up around the 2005 and 2008 releases.  In an effort to get back to my roots, I’m going to start releasing videos again, focused on VS/TFS 2013.  Normally I strive for 3-5 minute short  [ Read More ]

It thrills me to welcome Northwest Cadence as a sponsor to ALM Rocks!. Northwest Cadence was the brain child of one of my good friends, Steven Borg.  They are a Microsoft Gold ALM Partner focusing exclusively on Software Development Process and Application Lifecycle Management, and have been working with the  [ Read More ]

(This post is kinda rambly) Wow! I’m lucky enough to have been re-awarded the Microsoft Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management MVP award for the 9th straight year.  This is never something that I expect to happen.  Instead, I just continue to try and give back to the ALM community more  [ Read More ]

Infront Consulting Group is proud to announce a new partnership with Signature Consultancy.  Rock On!

Creating a new team project has not changed that much.  From within Team Explorer, select Home | Projects and My Teams | New Team Project… Enter the team project name and description. Select the process template to use.  You have three choices out of the box: Scrum, MSF Agile, and  [ Read More ]