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DevOps with Team Foundation Server

Learn how you can remove barriers between teams, encourage collaboration, and improve the flow of value to your customers with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server

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Explore the labs

Agile Planning

• Agile Planning and Portfolio Management
• Agile Work Item Management
• Introduction to the Modern Requirements Suite4TFS
• Managing Delivery Plans

Develop

• Collaboration Experiences for Development Teams with Wiki
• Debugging with IntelliTrace
• Debugging with Snapshot Debugger
• Diagnosing Issues in Production with IntelliTrace
• Developer experience enhancements
• Generate Unit Tests with IntelliTest
• Live Dependency Validation
• Live Unit Testing, Code Coverage, and Code Clone Analysis
• Making Developers More Productive
• SQL Prompt
• Using Code Analysis to Improve Code Quality
• Version Controlling with Git
• Working with EditorConfig

Continuous Integration

• Managing Technical Debt with SonarQube
• Package Management
• Enabling Continuous Delivery

Test Management and Execution

• Unit Testing, Code Coverage, and Code Clone Analysis
• Generate Unit Tests with IntelliTest
• Test Planning and Management
• Exploratory Testing and Feedback Management
• UI Automation using Coded UI Tests
• Web Application Load and Performance Testing

Continuous Delivery

• Embracing Continuous Delivery with Release Management
• Develop and deploy databases with ReadyRoll

Application Monitoring

• Instrumenting ASP.NET with Application Insights

Azure

• Authoring ARM Templates with Visual Studio
• Deploying a SQL Database backed ASP.NET app to Azure

Get the accompanying VM

To make it easy for you to follow the labs, we offer a virtual machine pre-installed with Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 (15.5), Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2018, Office and pre-configured with sample projects, users and data.

You can get access to the virtual machine the following ways:

• Download the Virtual Machine - You can download the virtual machine, if you prefer to use it offline. The size of the download is about 18 GB and we highly recommend that you use a download manager to download the VHD file. The [Accessing the VM](almvmdownload) page has detailed instructions on downloading the VM, including links to both current and the previous versions of TFS labs.

• Try it on Microsoft Hands-on Labs - If you are evaluating or want to try the labs without the hassle of downloading or setting up the virtual machine, you can access them from the Microsoft Hands-on-Labs center. You only need a browser. There is absolutely no download or setup required!

• Run it on Azure - Though the VM is currently not supported to run on Azure, you can simply upload the VHD to Azure as a specialized VHD and create a VM from it. Thanks to Pieter Gheysens who has written a PowerShell script to create VM instances based on the ALM VM. His blog{:target="_blank"} has more details.

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