Setting up a general Dev Machine: best practices

Question

Hi
I would like to be less reliant on my local VMs for working with SharePoint and WordPress. So I would thought I would spin up new server fwith VS2015 Preview.  I guess it would  make smart choices  form the start so any advice
on these please
Users which user to create - I just  created a random user which I think must be local or default domain since it is not in my AD . Is it easy to add more?
VS2015 updates. - do these happen automatically
How easy is to migrate to another VM and take settings with me
Where to store my code / and project files -  I want to work on stuff in  mapped virtual / clolud  drive from any VM then check in to VSOnline once I am happy.  Are thee any recommendations
The RDP connection stability  and timeout. -  the former isn't that great but anyone set the latter:
Daniel
Freelance consultant

Answer 1

Hi Daniel,
Since this forum is to discuss:
Visual Studio WPF/SL Designer, Visual Studio Guidance Automation Toolkit, Developer Documentation and Help System, and Visual Studio Editor.
And you know that actually one thread for one issue, if possible, you could post different questions in different threads, of course, it seems that some issues are not the VS General issues, so I will provide you the correct forums.
>>Users which user to create - I just  created a random user which I think must be local or default domain since it is not in my AD . Is it easy to add more?
Do you mean that you want to know whether you could use the VS IDE if the current user is not the admin? I think it would be the VS setup issue, as far as I know, we would install the VS as the admin.
But you could post this issue to the VS setup forum for better response if I understanding this issue correctly.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/home?forum=vssetup
If not, please feel free to let me know.
>>VS2015 updates. - do these happen automatically.
The latest VS2015 is the VS2015 ctp 6, the RTM version is not released now. As far as I know, no update package for the VS2015 ctp 6 now.
>>How easy is to migrate to another VM and take settings with me.
The "settings" means the VS settings, am I right? As far as I know, we could use the VS settings synchronized on different computers with the same user ID to log on VS from the VS2013 version, so as my understanding, the VS2015 would support
this feature.
Reference：
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn135229%28v=vs.140%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
>>Where to store my code / and project files -  I want to work on stuff in  mapped virtual / clolud  drive from any VM then check in to VSOnline once I am happy.  Are thee any recommendations.
If this issue is related to the VSO, maybe this forum would be better for you:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/home?forum=TFService
>>The RDP connection stability  and timeout. -  the former isn't that great but anyone set the latter:
It seems that it is related to the window, maybe you could share me more information about it.
In addition, if you meet any SharePoint development issue, please post the issue here:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?category=sharepoint
If I have misunderstood this issue, please feel free to let me know.
Best Regards,
Jack
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