Does Visual Studio Online support filtering Product Backlog/Sprint Views and Kanban by Area?

There seems to be guidance out there now that suggests using one Master Team Project (with Areas and Iterations for partitioning) for everything rather than a Team Project per Application/Solution as the 'out of the box' product sort of steers you towards.
If this guidance is valid, and I've heard that Microsoft use this approach internal, then is it possible to follow this guidance when using Visual Studio Online?
I ask because it appears that in order to follow the 'Master Team Project' approach you need to be able to filter various elements of the TFS UI by Area and Iteration in order to allow a discrete view of just the material relating to one 'logical' application,
team, etc.
Whilst I see how on-premise TFS can do some of this, I can't see any obvious way to do this with Visual Studio Online - and I'm new to that particular product so accept I may have missed something.
So my question is, can you follow the 'Master Team Project' approach if using Visual Studio Online and if so could someone steer me in the right direction please?
Thanks

Hi RedDwarf62,
Visual Studio Online(formerly Team Foundation Service) is a cloud-based service. When work with it, you can take it as TFS but no infrastructure to manage. You can follow the guide to work with Visual Studio Online.
To have mulpitle Applications/Solutions in one team project or use a team project for each application depends on you and the relationship between solutions/projects. If the solutons/applications has refences each other, it would be better to include
them in the same team project.
Working within a single Team Project also has its benefits. You can check this blog for more informaiton:
http://nakedalm.com/working-within-a-single-team-project-with-team-foundation-server-2012/
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"Visual Studio Online does not support your browser. Please upgrade to a supported browser to ensure a fantastic experience" message with IE 11

Hi All,
I have recently migrated from TFS 2010 to TFS 2013. When developers are accessing TFS Web interface from IE 11 they are getting message "Visual Studio Online does not support your browser. Please upgrade to a supported browser to ensure
a fantastic experience!" and page is not showing up correctly. I can open Web interface from Chrome without any issues. Also I figured out if I open Developer Tools (F12) in IE Web Interface also works fine and screwed up again
when I close Developer Tools.
What can be wrong with IE11 settings?
Regards,
Oleg

Hi Oleg,
Thanks for your post.
You’re using TFS 2013 Update 4 now?
Please share your IE 11 screenshot within this error message here.
Have you use the TeamCompanion in your TFS Server? If yes, please refer to the solution in this article:
http://www.teamcompanion.com/blog/.
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Release management with Azure and Visual Studio Online (Cloud TFS)

What strategy would you use to manage the releasing of versioned software to Azure cloud services (web and worker roles)? We are not looking for continuous integration. We are using Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio Online (Cloud TFS).
At one point, we were releasing straight from Visual Studio using the Azure Cloud Project Publish tool. This is really bad practice in my opinion as you can never be sure what you are really releasing. Additionally, there is no automated control on the labeling
or branching of code, or the running of unit tests and code analysis checks.
Next, we employed Release builds on Visual Studio Online. Before deployment, one would edit the appropriate Build Definition (whether it be for Test or Production by and filling in the code label (under the "Get Version" build property) that is to
be released. This would then get the appropriate code (by the label specified), build it, and release it to whatever cloud service is specified in the targeted Cloud Project profile (this is using the AzureContinuousDeployment.11.xaml template).
There is still a degree of manual intervention involved. Also, the fact that a version of code is built every time before it is released is not ideal (as far as I understand it would be better if it was packaged once).
Microsoft Release Management tools
look ideal for the job, but are not supported with Visual Studio Online.
Is there a better way of handling our releases?

/waves hand.. These are not the tools you seek. You are looking for continuous integration.
Although CI has the word continuous in there, it does not mean "all the time, every checkin". It can easily refer only to those bits you want to release - -and the way to tell the system which bits you want released is to merge them to a Releases
branch.
If you do this, not only do you get all the joy of controlled CI, but you guarantee what you release is exactly what is controlled in your SCM - under the Releases branch, preferably tagged or otherwise noted as a particular release. That means you can also
rollback to a previous release by simply reverting to a previous release in your SCM!
Of course you don't have to let it happen automatically, you can set it up to build 'continually' and then remove the check on the SCM to see if any changes have been committed. You can replace this with the manual build button.

Can't connect to visual studio online source control from vs 2010 ice starting today 1-23-2015

apparently there has been a breaking change and I can no longer connect to my visual studio online account anymore through vs 2010 ice - i get this message when i try to connect to it in the ide
Microsoft Visual Studio
Error
Team Foundation Server https://xxxxx.visualstudio.com/defaultcollection does not exist or is not accessible at this time.
Technical information (for administrator):
TF30064: You are not authorized to access the server.
OK
I can log in manually with a web browser but I need to check in items from the ide - it worked this morning but stopped working this afternoon
when i try to debug the webpage that comes up in ide to connect it says line 4 char 16405 error object doesn't support this property or method - code
0 url https://apps.vssps.visualstudio.com/_status/tfs/20150123T002517/_scripts/TFS/Laoder.min.js do you want to continue running scripts on this page?

Hi diakoniaus,
For the situation, you can check if you have the need permissions to access the team project in Visual Studio Online.
To make sure the permission of your credential, we can run tfssecurity command in VS command line to have a check. Please execute
tfssecurity /imx “MS account” /collection:url, for more information about tfssecurity /imx, please refer to:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms400806.aspx
If you have the corresponding, you can also have a try on other machines to see if it works for you. Or you can clean team foundation cache, delete cookies in browser and delete the credentials that saved in credential manager. Then reconnect to the team
project via VS 2010. You can check the troubleshooting details in this
thread.
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Visual Studio Online- Features and pricing.

I am TFS Admin in my organization and we(approx 100 users) have Visual Studio Professional
with MSDN subscription and i want to know about following things:
1. Is Visual Studio Online free for me(as we have MSDN Professional license)?
2. How much storage(on cloud) we can get with this subscription ,as we have thousands
of applications to store?
3. What are the features available for me with my current(Visual
Studio Professional with MSDN) subscription.
4. is there any other cost or pricing which i will have to pay in order to use Visual
Studio Online?
5. Authorization
migration from existing project : If we migrating from an On-Premises Team Foundation Server to Team Foundation Service:
1. IS source code history preserved
2. Are we able to migrate WorkItems with history.
6. SharePoint Integration with Team Foundation Service: Does
hosted team foundation service support integrate with SharePoint.

I have Visual Studio Professional with MSDN subscription and i want to know about following
things:
1. Is Visual Studio Online free for me?
2. How much storage we get with this subscription?
3. What are the features available for me with my current(Visual
Studio Professional with MSDN) subscription.
4. is there any other cost or pricing which i will have to pay in order to use Visual
Studio Online?

Visual studio online - Excel power query usage and samples needed

Background
Visual Studio Online does not offer much in the way of reporting, when compared to (onsite) TFS... unless you utilize the REST API functionality.
The Visual Studio Online REST API is fairly extensive, but not very 'reporting' friendly to applications like Microsoft Excel.
Question
Are there any good examples of Microsoft Excel Power Query usage - to acquire and create reports via the Visual Studio Online REST API? I've searched - but surprisingly haven't found anything of substance. It is fairly simple to call a VSO REST
query using Excel Power Query, but not so simple to iterate through the lists within lists, etc... unless you are familiar with 'M language'.

Hi,
Thank you for reaching out to us. I am currently researching to gather more information with regards to your request. I shall revert back to you with an update at the earliest. Sincerely appreciate your patience.
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Nithin Rathnakar

USELESS ONLINE HELP FACILITIES For all the amazing productivity aids that APPLE offers the world I have to report that their online support service is worse than useless and has recently been the source of immense time wasting and irritation.

USELESS ONLINE HELP FACILITIES
For all the amazing productivity aids that APPLE offers the world I have to report that their online support service is worse than useless and has recently been the source of immense time wasting and irritation.
Incident 1. Since many months attempts to download new and updated APPs produced a response – Apple ID Disabled. I had no time to consult an APPLE Store due to work in distant lands. When I finally visited yesterday I was told that as my IPAD has been reported as stolen, and APPLE in its wisdom had blocked its usage! I am not sure how they became so misinformed and nobody every advised me while with a few swift moves APPLE could have located me by email address or SKYPE.
Incident 2. Once the above anomaly had been fixed I tried to down load a newspaper and diligently input my address, credit card number and personal data. Repeatedly I was advised that my Credit Card was invalid and my postal code was incorrect! Really!
I was left to guess that having moved from UK to the US I should have advised APPLE! Not being told of this requirement brought about a second visit to APPLE Store in the same day to waste both mine and their time with a routine anomaly. How parochial in the context of a globalized world!
In each case I tried to resolve the issues using online access to a help line and by calling by phone at the numbers on the APPLE Website. In each of four separate occasions I diligently went through the routine and ended up with a message that thanked me for contacting Apple followed by a polite ‘Good Bye’!
In desperation I went to an Apple Store for the second time in a day as it is close to where I live when I am not working. On both occasions I was courteously attended to by Apple Staff.
However, my work is usually far away from the US and it is generally many thousands of miles to the nearest Apple Store therefore online help is viewed as imperative if one is to resolve issues away from home.
Why can Apple not provide a clearly marked EMAIL address and Telephone number at a Help Desk with real people to respond to requests for help? It would cost nothing in relative terms and might restore my high level of anti-APPLE sentiment that these two recent events have provoked.
Peter Hanney
Miami, Fl.

Why can Apple not provide a clearly marked EMAIL address and Telephone number at a Help Desk with real people to respond to requests for help?
If that is your question, the answer is at the bottom right of this web page. It is clearly marked "Contact Us" and is the best way, really the only way, to contact Apple.
If there were a publicly posted email address for concerns such as yours, it would be quickly filled with spam in about three minutes, thereby becoming instantly useless to you and everyone else. Apple would need to change it hourly, if not more often. That is also the reason you ought not to post your name, location, and what appears to be your iPad's serial number on this publicly viewable website.
Apple does not respond here and I can find no other questions for your fellow Apple users to answer.

Error message when trying to access Code in Visual Studio Online project.

I have been using visual studio online for a while. Last week I connected azure console to my visual studio online account so that I could add an additional person to one of my projects.
After that, I create a new Git based project. From the outset in the outset, I have been receiving a message in code explorer in the new project:
The items requested either do not exist on the server at the specified versions, or you do not have permission to access them.Hide details
TFS.WebApi.Exception: The items requested either do not exist on the server at the specified versions, or you do not have permission to access them. at b.a._getFailedRequestError (https://*******.visualstudio.com/_static/tfs/20150113T200222/_scripts/TFS/min/corejs?v=RGgj5lMwHLD78kGD2wBxR4uHtflIGwSdmCEhWbtUphc1:52:3204)
at https://*******.visualstudio.com/_static/tfs/20150113T200222/_scripts/TFS/min/corejs?v=RGgj5lMwHLD78kGD2wBxR4uHtflIGwSdmCEhWbtUphc1:52:2285 at b.a._handleRequestFailure (https://*******.visualstudio.com/_static/tfs/20150113T200222/_scripts/TFS/min/corejs?v=RGgj5lMwHLD78kGD2wBxR4uHtflIGwSdmCEhWbtUphc1:52:2931)
at Object.<anonymous> (https://*******.visualstudio.com/_static/tfs/20150113T200222/_scripts/TFS/min/corejs?v=RGgj5lMwHLD78kGD2wBxR4uHtflIGwSdmCEhWbtUphc1:52:2225) at l (https://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.8.3.min.js:2:16996) at Object.c.fireWith
(https://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.8.3.min.js:2:17783) at T (https://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.8.3.min.js:2:81036) at XMLHttpRequest.r (https://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.8.3.min.js:2:86563)
Accessing the project from Git tools connected fine and I was able to commit successfully, however, I don't know if the code is in the repo, because I cannot browse it on the website. Am still getting the message above.
I can explore code for any of my other project without issue. All but one of my projects is using git.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Hi Richie42,
I'd like to know whether you can push the commits to remote git repository, and when this issue occurred. When work with Git team project in Visual Studio Online, you have to clone the Git repository to local, and work with it.
You can also check if your have permissions to this team project in security page of team web access. Or
run
tfssecurity command in VS command line to have a check. Please execute tfssecurity /imx “MS account” /collection:url, for more information about tfssecurity /imx, please refer to:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms400806.aspx
Another option is clean team foundation cache, delete credentials in credential manager and delete browser cookies. Restart the Visual Studio to have a try. If the issue persists, please elaborate more details about your scenario with the reproduce steps.
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Can I give our AD users access to Visual Studio Online?

Our AD is connected to our Azure Active Directory and synced via DirSync.
Is it possible for me to give our AD users access to VSO and they use their organizational login credentials OR do they need to create Microsoft accounts?
Our goal is single sign-on with our AD credentials. Please let me know if this is possible?
Thanks, Sam

Hi Sam,
You can link your Visual Studio Online account with your Azure Activy directoy. Directory administrators control who joins the directory and has possible access to your Visual Studio Online account. The users can use Azure Active directory accounts
to sign in Visual Stduio Online account. You can check this
page for more information about manage organization access for your account.
The numbers of users can access Visual Studio Online account depend on your license of Visual Studio Online account. You can add no more then 5 basic users and unlimited MSDN subscriptions if you have Basic license of Visual Studio Online account. Check
this
page for the pricing. However, you can assign team members stakeholder license if the users only view the project-level information. Check this
page for more information about stakeholder license of Visual Studio Online.
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Remove test run from Load Test Manager in Visual Studio Online Load Testing

I have been using the Visual Studio Online Azure load testing for a while now, and I have a number of test runs that I would like to remove. I am not referring to my local Load Test Results Store (on-premise SQL DB), as I can remove test runs no problem.
I mean, how to remove them from "the cloud" so we can no longer re-download the test results.

Hi David,
As far as I know, it's not supported for Visual Studio Online to run load tests for solutions hosted on GitHub. You can submit a user voice
here.
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Application Insights for load testing in VS 2013, Azure Preview or Visual Studio Online?

I'm trying to get some clarification on which version of application insights to use to get performance counters from application insights for my azure cloud service for load and performance testing purposes.
So far, its not be clear what the differences between the two versions are, after deploying first the Azure Preview version, I attempted to set up performance counters using application insights but was shown an error because my visual studio online account
did not have an associated application insights instance.
Is it possible to get performance counters using AI for load testing using the Azure Preview version? If so, how? If not, is that planned as a new feature or will performance counters for VSO cloud based load testing have to be used when support for the
VSO version of application insights is eventually dropped?
Thanks,
Luke

Hi Alex, thanks for your response. I do have an Azure account, and have tinkered with AI in Azure Preview. My question was more about what the differences between the VSO and azure preview versions of AI are.
When I initially deployed AI to the azure portal and tried to run load tests from visual studio (cloud load tests, that is) I could not. Its possible I had made a mistake in configuring the azure version of application insights though. Strangely enough,
I actually do still see application insights data in the azure preview portal after I removed the newer AI version and installed AI 1.3.
To clarify my question, is it or will it be possible to run cloud based load tests (using visual studio online or another integrated service) against a azure web role deployed with application insights for azure and get performance counters of the system
under test via AI? To do that, will I also have an application insights application in the visual studio online account (similar to how I do now with the VSO version of AI), because that seems to be a requirement to load performance counters from application
insights within visual studio.
Thanks and sorry if I misunderstood your answer.

From Windows Azure `Edit in Visual Studio Online` ; Unclear On Which Login To Use

I have created a web site in Windows Azure and linked my site to `Visual Studio Online` where I can do automated builds upon checkin and all works.
Now from Azure's dashboard on the site I am presented with the option to edit it in Visual Studio Online:
But then I am confronted with a user authentication page.
Which credentials are to be used?
How are the provisioned exactly?
If they are not a windows live id...why not?
William Wegerson (www.OmegaCoder.Com)

Hi,
From the image you provided, it seems like you need credential to sign in ***.scm.azurewebsites.net, please kindly read the following article.
#http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2014/03/04/windows-azure-websites-online-tools-you-should-know-about.aspx
Here is a snippet:
simply browse using your favorite internet browser to https://{site name}.scm.azurewebsites.net (in other words, add
.scm in front of the site name). Upon entry, you will be asked for credentials and those will be the same as your deployment credentials. If you have never set up your deployment credentials, you can open your site’s dashboard
in the Azure Portal and click Set up deployment credentials. If you already have deployment credentials but do not remember them, you can use the dashboard to reset them
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Azure websites continues deployment using visual studio online doesn't work

Hello!
I have an issue with continues deployment in Azure. I have two subscriptions for my project. I created the team project in Subscription 1 & done the automatic deployment using GITContinuesDeployment. Everything is fine but while I changed the subscription
I can't do the automatic deployment since the Team project can't be find. The question is how can I do the deployment? I get the following error:
An attempted http request against URI https://management.core.windows.net/....../publishxml returned an error: (404) Not Found.
Exception Message: One or more errors occurred. (type AggregateException)
Exception Stack Trace: at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Deployment.Workflow.Activities.RestApiAsyncCodeActivity`1.ProcessAggregateException(AsyncCodeActivityContext context, AggregateException ag)
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Deployment.Workflow.Activities.RestApiAsyncCodeActivity`1.EndExecute(AsyncCodeActivityContext context, IAsyncResult result)
at System.Activities.AsyncCodeActivity`1.System.Activities.IAsyncCodeActivity.FinishExecution(AsyncCodeActivityContext context, IAsyncResult result)
at System.Activities.AsyncCodeActivity.CompleteAsyncCodeActivityData.CompleteAsyncCodeActivityWorkItem.Execute(ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager)
Inner Exception Details:
Exception Message: One or more errors occurred. (type AggregateException)
Exception Stack Trace: at System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1.GetResultCore(Boolean waitCompletionNotification)
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1.InnerInvoke()
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute()
Inner Exception Details:
Exception Message: An attempted http request against URI https://management.core.windows.net/.../publishxm
If I check Azure website also in Subscription 2, I can't find the Team project also from Subscription 1 even If I can see the subscription 1& 2 under services in Visual studio online
returned an error: (404) Not Found. (type HttpRequestWithUriException)
Exception Stack Trace: at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Deployment.Workflow.Activities.GetAzureWebsitePublishProfile.<>c__DisplayClass2.<GetApiTask>b__0(Task`1 returnTask)
at System.Threading.Tasks.ContinuationResultTaskFromResultTask`2.InnerInvoke()
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute()
Does anyone have the solution for that?
Regards,
Maryam

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Visual Studio Online Build Failure - Unable to copy file, access to directory is denied

Hi,
I have an ASP.Net Web Site that compiles and builds with no errors on my local machine.
However when I attempt to build the site using default build definitions/configurations within Visual Studio Online and deploy to an Azure Website / App Service I receive the following errors:
C:\a\src\House of Canine\HouseOfCanine_1_.metaproj: Unable to copy file "C:\a\src\House of Canine\HouseOfCanine\Bin\AjaxControlToolkit.dll" to "HouseOfCanine\\Bin\AjaxControlToolkit.dll". Access to the path 'HouseOfCanine\\Bin\AjaxControlToolkit.dll' is denied.
Where, I assume, the directory "C:\a\src\House of Canine..." refers to the Visual Studio Online Directory and the directory "HouseOfCanine\\Bin\Ajax..." refers to the Azure Website directory.
This error is repeated for a number of other .dll files in the Bin folder and if I look at the diagnostics tab for the failed build on VSO, I can see that it is where it attempts to copy the binaries to the "drop" where the error fails.
Any advice much appreciated,
Ross
Update
MSBuild Error Code: MSB3021
It seems the permissions are not set correctly for the DLLs in the Bin folder however I cannot change the permissions of the files on Visual Studio Online. Any ideas?

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Visual Studio Online incorrectly assigns stakeholder licenses to MSDN subscribers

We recently added on our Active Directory for Visual Studio Online. This has caused numerous challenges including a few folks with valid MSDN subscriptions stilling showing as stakeholders and thus preventing the ability to check in code. This has become
so disruptive we started scaling licenses in Azure to be able to check in code.
When I log into msdn.microsoft.com, I see the below error text.
Duration (Pacific Standard Time): <label id="datestart" style="margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;line-height:14.9760007858276px;background:transparent;">Thursday, March 5, 2015 12:20:00
PM</label>
To (Pacific Standard Time): <label id="dateend" style="margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;line-height:14.9760007858276px;background:transparent;">Friday, March 6, 2015 7:00:00 AM</label>
Impact:
- There may be intermittent service interruptions
User Action:
- We are working to get this issue resolved. Thank you for your patience.
This message is incomplete and I do not know if the challenges we are facing are related to the outage.
What is the current MSDN downtime problem and where can I go to get more detail in the future?
Any ideas why our eligible MSDN subscribers are still showing as stakeholders (if not related to the MSDN downtime problem)?

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Since this thread is more related to Visual Studio Online, I will move it to the right forum for a better response. Thanks for your understanding.
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Does Visual Studio Online support filtering Product Backlog/Sprint Views and Kanban by Area?

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