Visual Studio Online / Release Management Email Notifications

We use Visual Studio Online and not a local TFS instance. Additionally we want to / ARE using the Release Management service. But, we are having difficulties configuring the Email notifications within Release Management. We have steps
configured for email notification on step approval. BUT we are not getting any of these notifications and the Releases get stuck waiting during these steps. And only if by sheer dumb luck the user logs into his/her Release Management window
do they see that they have pending approvals...
What do we need to do in order to get these approvals flowing?
Thanks in advance!

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.
Regards,
Nithin Rathnakar

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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
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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
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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.

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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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:
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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)
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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?

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Hi Sam,
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to sign in Visual Stduio Online account. You can check this
page for more information about manage organization access for your account.
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I have seen some techinical document and tried some scenario.
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Hi diakoniaus,
For the situation, you can check if you have the need permissions to access the team project in Visual Studio Online.
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms400806.aspx
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project via VS 2010. You can check the troubleshooting details in this
thread.
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Does Visual Studio Online support filtering Product Backlog/Sprint Views and Kanban by Area?

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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.
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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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Would I have tighter control with TFS as opposed to Visual Studio Online?

We have developers from all over the world and I want to make sure that our code which is our company's intellectual property is as secure as possible. We're currently using Visual Studio Online but a potentially disgruntled developer can log into VSO and
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Would I have tighter control and security by implementing our own TFS server in a VM on Azure?
Thanks, Sam

Here's further clarification of my scenario:
First, we're entirely on Azure -- no on-premises network. We have a virtual network on Azure along with our ADs, VMs, etc. Our developers, both internal and external, use RemoteApp to write to their code so everything stays in the "cloud".
The problem with Visual Studio Online (VSO) is that a disgruntled developer could use his/her login credentials to log into VSO and download the code into their local machine.
Our objective is to keep everything that belongs to the company within our "virtual network" on Azure and NOWHERE ELSE.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think a traditional TFS approach -- running on a VM within our virtual network -- may give me tighter security due to the fact that there's no public "end point" where a developer can connect. Therefore we should be
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Note that the better forum to directly reach the Visual Studio Online experts is
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Visual Studio Online can send you back to zero with one simple mistake.

I was recently motivated by Microsoft team to move my code from other cloud services to Azure. I found out that it was very easy to make changes to the code using visual studio online until I lost all my code today and Microsoft team was unable to help me.
When you click git section and further click on 'intialize git' it brings all your code into a git, in case you don't like that and want to go back the moment you'll click 'undo all' you'll lose everything you have. I believe when someone clicks undo all
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i'm very sorry to hear that. I saw your tweet and provided my email address - I'd like to see if there's anything I can do to help.
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With the release of Visual Studio Online, will we be able link Project Server 2013 to it, as we can with our on-prem TFS server?
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Hello,
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Error importing result file from Visual Studio Online load test - Incorrect Syntax near ')'

We are seeing the exact same issue as reported in:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/4a338992-1a46-47ae-9f13-10a53a6264b5/error-downloading-load-test-report-from-visual-studio-service-load-test-incorrect-syntax-near?forum=TFService#cb43383b-c60d-4dcc-a353-352ac6908b35
When clicking on the "Download report" after running a load test using Visual Studio Online an error occurs. The download completes, but the import fails at 15% with the following:
This is happening for 2 different users on 2 different systems.
Any assistance in resolving this would be greatly appreciated!
Let me know if additional information is needed.
Thanks!

Hi,
We are researching your issue. Please clarify my question with detailed information:
1. Do you get the error in your first post when you click ‘Download report’ after you run load test from
Visual Studio 2013 on
team foundation service?
2 You said that ‘I am trying to import the test results into a Visual Studio 2012 (Update 3) on-prem instance’, what and where is
your load test result repository? A SQL Server database or the default database:LoadTest2010 in SQL Express on the same machine with Visual Studio 2013?
3 Whether you specify the load test result repository under Load Test->Manage Test Controller?
4. What error do you get? Please provide us more detailed information about the error message or share us with a screenshot.
5 Whether you can run the load test successfully locally and get the load test result with the same load test result database?
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permission of your co-work.
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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
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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.
Regards,
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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
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