I am new to VS Test manager and trying to do some practice. I do not have access to any TFS. Is there a dummy TFS on web that can be used for this purpose? Thanks
Visual Studio Team Services is a good option. You can get started for free, and the first 5 users in your team are also FREE.
After creating an account for VSTS, create a team project, and check whether you get a Test tab on Web Access.
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I connected Azure DevOps to Visual Studio and when I press "Publish Git Repo" everything is working fine.
But it always creates a Scrum process Dashboard.
I made Agile as default and disabled all of the others in my organisation.
Now Visual Studio throws this error
VS403119: You cannot add a team project with process Scrum as it is disabled. Either choose a different process, or enable process Scrum and try again.
So it means the setting is somewhere in Visual Studio.
The only thing I found about it is this two years old question.
Do you know the setting or some config file to change the default process board when publishing to the Azure DevOps from Visual Studio?
Visual Studio always specifies Scrum process when creating Azure Devops project via its Team Explorer, as I know there's no VS settings available to manage this behavior.
As a workaround you can create the project with Agile process in web portal first, add local project/solution into source control and choose Target Project(Click Advanced) before publishing the repo:
Actually this behavior is VS-specific cause Azure Devops itself supports specifying process template even by Rest API. So I decide to post a feature request related to your requirements in User Voice forum with VS tag instead of Azure Devops tag. The product team would provide the updates if they view it.
How can one migrate from Visual Studio Online to an on-premises instance of TFS (version 2017)?
Ideally I'd like to migrate all code, project management data, etc.
Thank you for your time
There's no way to do this without the use of third-party tools, all of which will result in some amount of data loss.
There is currently no way to move from VS Team Services to Team
Foundation Server or to export a project or project collection in such
a way that it can be attached to a TFS server.
Depending on what features of VS Team Services you're using it may be
possible to migrate some of the data to a new target environment with
relative ease. And depending on what you're willing to lose you may be
able to migrate some other bits easily as well.
There are 3rd party tools that offer migration to and from VS Team
Services, though these can be pretty expensive.
Refer to this thread for details: Move from VS Team Service to an on-premises TFS
I do have two visual studio online accounts:
mypersonalaccount.visualstudio.com (free basic) and
mycompanyaccount.visualstudio.com (paid)
I started a small project into my personal one a few years ago. Now this project grows up and we create a little company.
I would like to change this project from my personal account to the my company account. in order to take advantage of the paid features.
How can I migrate a project from one account to another?
I would like to change the ownership for all data, no just the code repository but all tasks and sprints data too.
There is no such tool provided by Microsoft. Microsoft supports the migration from Team Foundation Server on premise to Visual Studio Team Services.
What I would suggest is to either use alternative tools like the vsts-sync-migration, or write your own PowerShell scripts leveraging the VSTS REST APIs to move the data you need.
When I tried Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 to do load tests, it automatically connects to some website and asks for a team service account.
I don't have one and my environment does not have an Internet connection.
Can I do load tests without such an account?
Every month or so Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise requires the user to validate their license. That is quickly done via some network activity. The trial version of the software is just an unlicensed version that has some restrictions on the type of load tests that can be done.
Assuming that the license has been validated and that, I believe, does require a suitable account to have been connected: The default settings for load tests are to use Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS - previously called VSO for Visual Studio Online). Use of VSTS does require a suitable account.
You should be able to run a load test locally on your computer. The setting for local versus VSTS execution of a load test is in the "General" section of the .testsettings file.
When creating a new project in Visual Studio Online, I can set all it's required settings online, but then I have to connect to it through Visual Studio and configure the check-in policy there before handing it over to the team to use.
I don't work on every project, I create it and then hand it over to the team who will take it further so I don't want to have to connect to each project that gets created.
There is not a direct way to enable TFS check-in policy except connecting to the team project and setting in the team explorer.
Or you'll need to use the Team Foundation Server SDK to implement the function that set check-in policy programmatically, here is a blog "How to Set Check-in Policies for all Projects in Team Foundation Server using PowerShell?", you may have a look: http://manasbhardwaj.net/set-checkin-policies-projects-team-foundation-server-using-powershell/