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Visual Studio Online is available in Azure for creating Team Projects on cloud. Now what i have a doubt is if we can restrict the access of VSO from just corporate network or not? If yes how can we achieve that? Can anyone provide links or steps to configure it? Can Azure Active Directory help in this case?
For eg: There is XYZ Company that wants its developers to work with VSO only while they are on premise of the office. When they go home or outside corporate's network he/she must not be able to access or make changes in VSO.
Any help will be appreciated.!!

I think you can do it via using Azure Active Directory.
As we know that Azure AD can be integrated with an existing Windows Server Active Directory, giving organizations the ability to leverage their existing on-premises identity. Please check:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/ad/archive/2014/08/04/connecting-ad-and-azure-ad-only-4-clicks-with-azure-ad-connect.aspx
If the Visual Studio Online account is connected to an active directory, only users in that directory can get access to your account.
Please check the following two links for the details:
https://www.visualstudio.com/get-started/setup/manage-organization-access-for-your-account-vs
http://nakedalm.com/use-corporate-identities-existing-vso-accounts/

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I have a Visual Studio subscription.
I'm trying to implement Application Insights in a Web API application in Visual Studio.
The wizard is trying to associate AI with my Visual Studio subscription. Rather, I want to integrate with my company's Azure subscription.
So, how is this done? Do I have to contact the Azure admin and add me to Azure? I have seen responses like "add you as a co-administrator". This is pretty dumb, when you're a developer.
Our company Azure subscription has Active Directory integration. So what. How do I register with the company Azure subscription that I want to implement services as a developer in the company??
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If I understand your question correctly, you need to obtain an Instrumentation Key from a resource that is created in your company's Azure portal. Then, you can install application insights in your project and use that instrumentation key.
If, on the other hand you are asking why you have to be a co-administrator then you are correct. This was the case for a while but not anymore.
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So, my problem is that I cannot connect because of a wrong authentication (valid username and password, valid privileges).
I think the reason for that is the Domain but I never joined one because I use a normal version of Windows 10 Enterprise. Could it depend on installed features like WCF? I did really intensive research but I'm not able to find any information to solve my problem.
Here is a screenshot of the Login-Dialog:
On premise TFS only supports Windows auth (either local or domain).
If your TFS server and VS are installed on the same machine, you could use your local account with enough permission to connect TFS server directly.
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First I want to thank you for your support.
I'm sorry that this comes late but I already solved my problem.
I obviously just forgot to put a Backslash in front of my username so that I don't use the domain of my local computer.

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I have cleared the TFS cache on my local as well.
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I have gone through the Lab AdvancedWebAndWorkerRoles which you have provided in the latest training kit WAPTK. I followed the steps in Exercise 1:registering sites,Applications and Virtual directories .It is running fine in windows azure emulator(locally),but i cannot find any steps to host in the windows azure management portal.
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Select the generated package file and configuration file, from the portal, which results in your service being launched. This takes a few minutes, and you can watch its status via the portal.
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Of the features offered by TFS2005, we are currently leveraging only TF Version Control--work items and build automation are handled by separate systems. However, we would like to use the TFS-integrated Symbol/Source server in order to accurately debug the different versions of our product, and that's where we're running into difficulty.
The VMs deployed in VMWare are not joined to the corporate domain, and this means that we run into difficulty when attemping to grab source code information via Source Server and the "tf.exe view" command.
If devenv is run on the VM, it can't authenticate a domain account, and tf.exe view fails when grabbing source info.
If devenv is run on the developer desktop and debugging is done with remote debugger, the vm's local user account fails to access the share exposed by Symbol Server and can't load symbols to begin with, much less retrieve source.
Has anyone done this before?
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BTW, I have a blog post discussing the Symbol Server and Source Server features of TFS 2010 available here: http://bit.ly/SymbolServerTFS

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