InCycle Software Blog

InCycle Named Azure Data Explorer (ADX) Partner

We’re excited to announce that InCycle Software has been added to the Azure Data Explorer (ADX) "Find My Partner" program. InCycle's participation reflects our team's ...
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OpsHub & InCycle Help Top Medical Device Company Accelerate Innovation

  • InCycle
  • November 02, 2022
  • DevOps
OpsHub and InCycle enable a global imaging products company to accelerate innovation by modernizing legacy tools and migrating to Azure DevOps.
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InCycle Continues to Lead, Recognized by Microsoft for Industry ...

  • InCycle
  • July 13, 2022
  • Awards
In advance of Microsoft's flagship partner event, Inspire, Microsoft announced the winners of its 2022 Impact awards. Partners were selected by judges in 30 award ...
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What Is Microsoft's App of the Future Program?

We all know every company is now a software company. To stay relevant in the new digital economy, organizations must transform how they engage customers, partners and ...
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Integrating Value Streams in a Multi-tool DevOps Ecosystem

  • InCycle
  • November 10, 2021
  • DevOps
As organizations battle increasing pressure to deliver innovation and better customer experience faster than the competition, it becomes imperative to strike the right ...
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Webinar: What is MLOps & Why is it Important?

Join our team of experienced professionals on September 30th as they deliver an in-depth and practical MLOps presentation covering the following key topics:
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Webinar: Getting Started with Containers & Azure Kubernetes Service ...

  • InCycle
  • September 17, 2021
  • AKS
Curious about Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure Kubernetes Service? Microsoft & InCycle are teaming up to present containers and showcase how Kubernetes can support ...
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InCycle Wins Two Microsoft Awards - Extends Win Streak to Five Years

  • InCycle
  • July 14, 2021
  • Awards
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, July 14, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- InCycle Software (InCycle) has been recognized for two Microsoft US (MSUS) Partner Awards. ...
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InCycle Releases Enterprise Azure Governance Playbook

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, March 2, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- InCycle Software (InCycle) today announced it has released an Enterprise Azure Governance ...
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InCycle Earns Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization

  • InCycle
  • February 16, 2021
  • AKS
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, February 16, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- InCycle Software (InCycle) today announced it has earned the Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure ...
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InCycle & Microsoft Host DevOps Forum

  • Robb Vandaveer
  • December 01, 2020
  • DevOps
On behalf of InCycle, I was given the pleasure of moderating and being a panelist for Part One of the Microsoft DevOps Forum 2020, "Microsoft DevOps journey with ...
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Webinar: What is MLOps & Why is it Important?

Join our team of experienced professionals as they deliver an in-depth and practical MLOps presentation covering the following key topics:
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Webinar: Modern Enterprise & Cloud Governance

This webinar was conceived for medium and large organizations that are trying to navigate cloud adoption and are struggling to design and implement modern governance for ...
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Webinar: Getting Started with Containers & Kubernetes + Demo

  • InCycle
  • November 09, 2020
  • AKS
Curious about Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure Kubernetes Service? Microsoft & InCycle are teaming up to present containers and showcase how Kubernetes can support ...
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What is the Microsoft Solution Assessment Program?

Engagements are coordinated between the customer, Microsoft (Solution Assessment Specialist & Microsoft Account Team), and an approved partner (e.g., InCycle). These ...
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Webinar: AKS Enterprise Accelerator, 5 Must Haves - Sept 30, 2020 @ ...

  • InCycle
  • September 17, 2020
  • AKS
Join our team of experienced professionals as we present an AKS Enterprise Accelerator and unlock the top 5 "must haves" for a successful Kubernetes roll-out and ...
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InCycle Recognized for Azure App Modernization Expertise

  • InCycle
  • September 02, 2020
  • Azure
How Is an Advanced Specialization Different From a Competency? A competency measures a partner’s broad technical capability in a Microsoft product or technology. An ...
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Azure App Configuration Service: Demystified

App Configuration Service is, at the most basic level, an independent store for application configuration settings. It’s not tied to any particular application, it’s not ...
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Dockerfile Sample Projects for Containers

Download Dockerfile Starter Packs The adoption of containers amongst organizations continues at an incredible pace. Containers have proven effective in a variety of uses ...
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What's New in Azure DevOps?

July Improved traceability for pipeline trigger failures This is probably my favorite thing out of the bunch (but please don’t stop reading after this!). When a pipeline ...
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InCycle Named 2020 Microsoft US Partner Award Winner

  • InCycle
  • July 21, 2020
  • Awards
For Immediate Release
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What Is Container Image Management?

  • TJ Cappelletti
  • July 14, 2020
  • Docker
This concept of process isolation has been around for a long time in Unix/Linux space and more recently Windows. With it comes new challenges that forces developers and ...
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Azure Policy for Kubernetes (AKS) Clusters

In this post we will quickly review the Azure Policy offering. We will then look at how Kubernetes has approached the same issues, specifically looking at the Open ...
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Why Adopt Containers and Kubernetes?

  • David Pitcher
  • June 23, 2020
  • Azure
What are containers? A container allows for process and dependency isolation whereas virtual machines are focused at hardware isolation. Creating a container does not ...
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What is Azure Synapse Analytics?

What is Azure Synapse Analytics? Azure Synapse Analytics is the evolution of the previous Azure SQL Data Warehouse SaaS solution. Synapse has become a multi-node ...
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Webinar: Accelerating DevOps with GitHub

  • InCycle
  • June 16, 2020
  • GitHub
Join our team of experienced professionals as they deliver a practical GitHub demo complete with automated CI/CD using GitHub Actions. The demo will include:
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Webinar: Operationalizing Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

  • InCycle
  • May 22, 2020
  • AKS
Join our team of experienced professionals as they deliver an in-depth and practical Kubernetes & AKS presentation covering the following key topics:
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InCycle Formalizes GitHub Partnership

InCycle Expands DevOps Practice to Include GitHub InCycle is proud to announce that we are officially a GitHub Verified Partner. Building on our industry expertise and ...
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Kubernetes for the Enterprise

  • Daniel Mann
  • April 28, 2020
  • AKS
If you're a little bit confused about all of the terminology and tools surrounding containers, or if you're interested in better understanding how to operationalize AKS, ...
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YAML Pipelines: A History Lesson

  • Daniel Mann
  • April 27, 2020
  • DevOps
Before we talk about YAML, let's talk a bit about the history of CI/CD in TFS / Azure DevOps. Get ready, because we're going to get in our time machines and go back to ...
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Webinar: Operationalizing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

  • InCycle
  • April 27, 2020
  • AKS
Join our team of experienced professionals as they deliver an in-depth and practical Kubernetes & AKS presentation covering the following key topics:
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Webinar: What is MLOps ?

Join our team of experienced professionals as they deliver an in-depth and practical MLOps presentation covering the following key topics:
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What is a Data Pipeline?

  • Daniel Weissenborn
  • March 31, 2020
  • Big Data
While Machine Learning and model creation involves some amount of programming, much of the work happens downstream of supporting data processes and tools. This brings us ...
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Modern DevOps Practices for Work Item Process Template Customizations

I was recently working with a client to help them customize some of the work item types in Azure DevOps Services. If you’re familiar with Azure Boards, then you probably ...
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README Files for Internal Projects

  • Mike Ericson
  • February 05, 2020
  • GitHub
Several years ago, I was teaching a class in St. Louis. Being in the city for the first time I wanted to take advantage of this trip to see “the arch”. One night after ...
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Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) with Azure

  • Phil DeVeau
  • January 22, 2020
  • Azure
Microsoft Azure offers Opportunity to Simplify & Reduce Cost of Disaster Recovery (DR) Disaster Recovery (DR), is often an understated aspect for a business. The ...
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What is the Microsoft Cloud Economics Program?

  • InCycle
  • January 07, 2020
  • Azure
With more and more companies moving to the cloud, many start with an initial assessment. Assessments remain important first step for customers seeking to evaluate ...
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Irvine, CA - Microsoft & InCycle to Host Leadership Roundtable

Join Microsoft & InCycle for Exclusive Executive Roundtable Designed for business and IT leadership, the executive roundtable offers an opportunity for senior ...
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What is Azure Cosmos DB?

  • InCycle
  • July 11, 2019
  • Data
What is Azure Cosmos DB? The canonical answer is it's a globally distributed, multi-model database service for cloud-scale applications. Okay, so what does that mean and ...
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InCycle Three-peats at 2019 Microsoft Partner Awards

  • InCycle
  • June 12, 2019
  • DevOps
For three years running and four of the last six years, InCycle will be honored at Microsoft’s annual Partner awards. Announced earlier this month, InCycle was ...
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InCycle Sponsors Azure DevFest

InCycle Exhibits and Presents in Seattle & Portland
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InCycle Hosting DevOps Global Bootcamps

  • InCycle
  • April 02, 2019
  • DevOps
Global DevOps Bootcamp is a worldwide event that has one single purpose. Let people learn and experience true DevOps! This year's event will be held on Saturday, June ...
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InCycle Co-Hosts DevOps Customer Roundtable - Chicago

  • InCycle
  • March 13, 2019
  • DevOps
Accelerating DevOps Adoption from an Enterprise Perspective Please join us in Chicago for an amazing DevOps round-table discussion. Donovan Brown, Principal DevOps ...
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InCycle to Present at Microsoft Azure DevFest

  • InCycle
  • January 29, 2019
  • Azure
Meet InCycle at Azure DevFest Silicon Valley & San Francisco InCycle invites you to join us at Azure DevFest in Sunnyvale on February 11th and San Francisco on ...
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Turbonomics Selected to Support Customer Azure Strategy & Roadmaps

Building on core Azure application migrations services, InCycle is pleased to announce a partnership with Turbonomics --- a leading intelligent workload management ...
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InCycle Expands Application Modernization Tool Set to Include Movere

As a leader in cloud application modernization and innovation, InCycle is delighted to announce a partnership with Movere. The agreement adds a discovery solution to ...
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Don't Get Caught with SQL 2008! Consider a Data Migration Today!

If you’re running SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2, these versions are reaching the end of their support lifecycle. End of support means the end of security updates, which can ...
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Azure DevOps: A Modern DevOps Cloud Platform

  • InCycle
  • September 11, 2018
  • vsts
The cloud, and specifically Azure, continues to impact how we think about modern applications and services. In keeping with this evolution, Microsoft just announced the ...
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Second Year in a Row, InCycle Makes Podium

  • InCycle
  • June 11, 2018
Microsoft Corp. announced the winners and finalists of the Microsoft 2018 Partner of the Year Awards. The annual awards recognize top Microsoft partners demonstrating ...
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InCycle Hosting Global DevOps Bootcamp in New York & Dallas

The Global DevOps Bootcamp is a free one-day event hosted by local passionate DevOps communities around the globe and centrally organized by Microsoft partners and ...
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Microsoft Global Black Belt Team and InCycle Cloud Workshops

  • InCycle
  • March 01, 2018
  • vsts
DevOps Strategy & WorkShop Near You! Once again, InCycle & Microsoft are teaming up to deliver a series of first class events. The Global Black Belt team and our ...
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VSTS Release Management: Deployment Orchestration vs Deployment ...

Since Microsoft released the re-write of Release Management in the form of the Release hub in VSTS, I've been dealing with a lot of legacy migrations and implementations ...
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Microsoft & InCycle Team-up to Deliver App Modernization Workshop for ...

  • InCycle
  • December 18, 2017
Modern Apps for Financial Services
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Islands of Information – Typically Not a Paradise.

  • InCycle
  • November 27, 2017
  • tfs
“Islands can range from beautiful tropic paradises to desolate rocks. While may way claim to wish they could run away to a deserted island, few would actually enjoy (or ...
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Introducing Azure DevOps Project

  • InCycle
  • November 16, 2017
  • Azure
Organizations are increasingly pressed to get to market faster. Competition is abound and market dynamics are rapidly changing --- creating new and innovative business ...
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Microsoft Connect 2017

  • InCycle
  • November 15, 2017
  • Azure
Microsoft Connect() starts tomorrow! If you aren’t already familiar with Connect(), it’s a 3-day event showcasing how companies can achieve their software modernization ...
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Modern Application Development with Azure

  • InCycle
  • September 05, 2017
  • Azure
InCycle & Microsoft are collaborating to bring you a new and exciting learning opportunity. Hosted at various Microsoft MTCs (Seattle, Irvine and Detroit, we'll be ...
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Microsoft DevOps Partner of the Year - 2017

  • InCycle
  • July 19, 2017
  • Azure
For Immediate Release June 1, 2017
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The Winding (but ultimately successful) Road to a Xamarin Development ...

  • David Corbin
  • March 28, 2017
  • Blog
Most of my development efforts are focused on Web, Desktop and Server scenarios; but with the launch of Visual Studio 2017 and all of the new Mobile Development ...
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TFS 2017 Update 1 – Points of Interest

  • David Corbin
  • March 15, 2017
  • Blog
The release of Update 1 for TFS 2017 brings many enhancements across the board. Although when viewed individually, many of these appear to be minor; the cumulative ...
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Start Live Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2017

  • David Jung
  • March 03, 2017
  • Blog
In Visual Studio 2015, Microsoft introduced a feature called IntelliTest. It allows developers to go into their existing code base and create developer unit tests where ...
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Visual Studio 2017 is Launching March 7th!

  • Stephanie Long
  • February 22, 2017
  • Blog
We are excited that Visual Studio 2017 will be launching on March 7th and we’re excited for this release because of features like the new Git enhancements and live unit ...
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Microsoft’s Connect (); 2016 is almost here! Are you registered?

  • admin
  • November 03, 2016
  • Blog
Connect (); 2016 will be streamed live and there will be several industry innovators diving deep into technical sessions. Some of the speakers include: Scott Guthrie, ...
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WPC 2016 Wrap-up

  • Stephanie Long
  • August 12, 2016
  • Blog
We were very excited that three of our colleagues were able to attend the sold out World Partner Conference (WPC) 2016 in Toronto. This is our 10th year and counting! ...
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TFS “15” RC1 is Available!

  • David Jung
  • August 10, 2016
  • Blog
TFS “15”, not to be confused with TFS 2015, has now reached Release Candidate status. This means this is a “go-live” release and will be supported by Microsoft when ...
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TFS “15” Preview is Available & Fully Loaded!

  • David Jung
  • July 26, 2016
  • Blog
Team Foundation Server (TFS) “15” Preview
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Ready to Improve Performance & Reduce Your Infrastructure & ...

Many organizations today are wanting IT to deliver more value by advancing application development to reach time to market goals, while keeping costs low. And as ...
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Managing Costs of DevOps in the Microsoft Cloud

  • Stephanie Long
  • April 13, 2016
  • Blog
Our very own David Pitcher, Sr. ALM Consultant, presented on the Microsoft Virtual Academy this week on Azure Subscription Overview and Roles to Manage Dev/Test in the ...
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Build 2016 Recap

  • Stephanie Long
  • April 08, 2016
  • Blog
Each year, Microsoft fans and developers get together at Build for a sneak peek of Microsoft’s upcoming announcements. At this year’s Build, there was a lot of exciting ...
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Visual Studio 2015 Launch Event in San Francisco!

  • Stephanie Long
  • December 05, 2015
  • Blog
Join us next Tuesday, December 8th in San Francisco for the Visual Studio 2015 launch event! One of our Senior Consultants, David Jung will be speaking there along with ...
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There are many great updates for the TFS 2015 release!

  • Stephanie Long
  • December 01, 2015
  • Blog
There’s now an updated version of Release Management for Visual Studio 2015 which provides improves performance in the following areas:
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Migrating Release Management 2013/2015 to Release Management Service

  • Daniel Mann
  • November 25, 2015
  • Blog
A lot of stuff has happened in the wonderful Microsoft world in the past few weeks. If you weren't aware, Visual Studio Online is now Visual Studio Team Services! And in ...
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Microsoft Connect Wrap-up

  • Dan Shea
  • November 24, 2015
  • Blog
Wow there was a lot to take in at Microsoft’s Connect event. I left the room with more ideas and found even more on Channel9 that got mentioned on the main stage. In ...
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Chicago - Visual Studio 2015 Launch Event

  • admin
  • October 22, 2015
  • Blog
Yesterday I had the privilege of presenting at the Chicago - Visual Studio 2015 Launch Event. We had a great turn out for the event.
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TFS 2015 Upgrade Campaign!

  • Stephanie Long
  • October 20, 2015
  • Blog
TFS 2015 Upgrade
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Three Events for Visual Studio 2015

  • Stephanie Long
  • October 07, 2015
  • Blog
We are excited to announce that Visual Studio 2015 has arrived and, therefore, we are hosting three events (San Francisco, Chicago and Atlanta) for you to learn more ...
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Announcing Team Foundation Server 2015 Upgrade Planning Guidance

  • William Salazar
  • October 06, 2015
  • Blog
If you are currently planning to upgrade to Team Foundation Server 2015 and need some best practice guidance, the Visual Studio ALM Rangers have answered your call. I am ...
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Congratulations to Daniel Mann for Receiving the MVP Award

  • Stephanie Long
  • October 02, 2015
  • Blog
We are very excited to announce that Daniel Mann, a Senior Software Development Consultant with us, and Microsoft ALM MVP has received the MVP award for the 2nd year in ...
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Getting a clear view using Application Insights - VSO2GO Episode 5

  • Alex Turner
  • September 08, 2015
  • Blog
Welcome back, we are at the end of our 5 part series. In this, the final episode, we will show you how to add Application Insights into your application. The content of ...
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Designing Apps for the Cloud - VSO2GO Episode 4

  • Alex Turner
  • September 03, 2015
  • Blog
If you’re following along our journey were half way through. Welcome back and thank you, the response to this series has been great. If you just joining us we are glad ...
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Going mobile with Visual Studio Online API - VSO2GO Episode 3

  • Alex Turner
  • September 01, 2015
  • Blog
If you’re following along our journey, welcome back! If you just joining us, please take a look at the first two blogs in this series.
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Continuous Delivery with VSO Build vNext - VSO2GO Episode 2

  • Alex Turner
  • August 27, 2015
  • Blog
If you’re following along our journey, welcome back! If you just joining us, please take a look at Episode 1 - ASP.NET with Azure Active Directory.
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Microsoft Release Management: The Next Generation

  • Daniel Mann
  • August 25, 2015
Since this post was written, Microsoft has released their own update on Release Management. As a result, we've opted to remove our blog post in favor of pointing you ...
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ASP.NET with Azure Active Directory - VSO2GO Episode 1

  • Alex Turner
  • August 24, 2015
  • Blog
I’ve recently spent some time working with the Visual Studio Online API creating an ASP.NET application. The benefit of have visibility into VSO Work items on the go was ...
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Building ASP .NET 5 Applications on Linux with TFS 2015, Part 4: ...

  • Daniel Mann
  • August 18, 2015
  • Blog
Okay, we're almost done! In the past three parts, we've gone over how to get TFS configured for Basic authentication, set up the cross-platform build agent, and get DNX ...
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Building ASP .NET 5 Applications on Linux with TFS 2015, Part 3: ...

  • Daniel Mann
  • August 17, 2015
  • Blog
In part 1, we set up TFS. In part 2, we configured our Linux build agent. Now in part 3, we'll be setting up DNX (the .NET Execution Environment) for Linux. Since DNX/ ...
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Build tasks for Release Management 2015

  • Daniel Mann
  • August 14, 2015
  • Blog
I think I might be obsessed with the new build system. I was getting bored with blogging about it, so I took a break... to write some custom tasks for interacting with ...
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Building ASP .NET 5 Applications on Linux with TFS 2015, Part 2: ...

  • Daniel Mann
  • August 14, 2015
  • Blog
In my last post, I explained how to configure your TFS server and agent pools to support Linux build agents.
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Building ASP .NET 5 Applications on Linux with TFS 2015, Part 1: TFS ...

  • Daniel Mann
  • August 13, 2015
  • Blog
I recently left my Windows-centric comfort zone a bit and took a journey into Linux-land to see how I could get an ASP .NET 5 application building on a Linux machine. ...
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Team Foundation Server 2015 Released Today

  • Stephanie Long
  • August 06, 2015
  • Blog
We’re excited (along with everyone else) that Team Foundation Server 2015 has been released TODAY! This is the biggest release in a long time!
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Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2015's IntelliTest

  • David Jung
  • July 31, 2015
  • Blog
When you run IntelliTest, it examines your .NET code to generate not only unit tests but also test data for the unit tests to use. Based on the logical branch conditions ...
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Happy VS2015 RTM Day!

  • Daniel Mann
  • July 20, 2015
  • Blog
It's here! Visual Studio 2015 has launched! There are too many new features to talk about (plus, I'm excited to get it installed and start playing with it), so I won't ...
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Prepare to "Run IntelliTest" with Visual Studio 2015

  • David Jung
  • July 17, 2015
  • Blog
Anyone who is doing agile development will preach about how you need developer unit tests in the code base in order for automated builds to be effective. If you don't, ...
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Customizing the Team Home Page

  • Dave Burnison
  • July 01, 2015
  • Blog
I recently received the following message via LinkedIn from someone who read my The New TFS 2013 Agile Planning Features in Update 2 blog post:
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Visual Studio 2015 RTM is due July 20th

  • David Jung
  • June 30, 2015
  • Blog
Earlier this week, Soma, Microsoft CVP of the Developer Division, shared that the final releases of Visual Studio 2015 -- which includes Visual Studio, Team Foundation ...
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Coded UI Testing with Excel XLSX files

  • David Jung
  • June 26, 2015
  • Blog
I have been working with a number of clients recently setting up their Coded UI Tests to be data driven using Excel workbooks as their data source. There is a lot of ...
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Making The Case For Azure

  • Alex Turner
  • June 24, 2015
  • Blog
Are you needing some talking points for that next meeting with stakeholders about the cloud? Here are a few quick cases that could help. So whether the goal is to reduce ...
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Considering Azure?

  • Alex Turner
  • June 22, 2015
  • Blog
Still deciding on whether it’s time to embrace the cloud? Here are a few quick thoughts on why the answer should be yes. Efficiency Save time, money and Ibuprofen. The ...
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vNext Build Awesomeness – Managing Version Numbers

  • Dave Burnison
  • June 18, 2015
  • Blog
I have only been playing around with the vNext build system for a little while but, I have stumbled upon some real awesomeness! I now have a build template that allows ...
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Build vNext is in public preview

  • Daniel Mann
  • May 29, 2015
  • Blog
If you've talked to me about TFS at all in the past 6 months, I've probably talked your ear off about "Build vNext" or "Build Preview", the new cross-platform, ...
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Did you miss MS Ignite?

  • Stephanie Long
  • May 15, 2015
  • Blog
If you missed MS Ignite, Matt Herman did a great job of summarizing each day.
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Mourning the Loss of Frederic Persoon

  • admin
  • May 13, 2015
  • Blog
We sadly inform you that we’ve suffered a great loss. Our leader and President of InCycle, Frederic Persoon, passed away on Thursday, May 7th. Frederic was an ...
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Calculating return on investment of software development - 3/3 Value ...

  • Frederic Persoon
  • April 30, 2015
  • Blog
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future” Niels Bohr
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Calculating return on investment of software development - 2/3 Cost

  • Frederic Persoon
  • April 30, 2015
  • Blog
“The fog of war” - What we don’t know does not hurt us - Carl von Clausewitz
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Calculating return on investment of software development - Part 1/3

  • Frederic Persoon
  • April 30, 2015
  • Blog
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts” ― Albert Einstein
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MS builds a case for DevOps as VS shows 40 % of implementations fail

  • Frederic Persoon
  • April 30, 2015
  • Blog
From Build 2015: http://m.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2406415/build-2015-microsoft-builds-a-case-for-devops-as-visual-studio-shows-40-per-cent-of-implementations-fail
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TFS/Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate and more from //Build/

  • Daniel Mann
  • April 29, 2015
  • Blog
Brian Harry has a massive blog post about everything announced today at //Build/. For those who haven't heard yet, I'll list some highlights, but I highly recommend ...
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Special Guest on Channel 9

  • Stephanie Long
  • April 24, 2015
  • Blog
Check out this interview! As an ALM Ranger, Barry Paquet was invited as a special guest for Channel 9! Channel 9 was created in 2004 and is a Microsoft community site ...
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How Azure Helps You Cook Meals

  • Stephanie Long
  • April 13, 2015
  • Blog
How awesome would it be to find a recipe on a website, and be able to have the recipe and preparation instructions sent to your oven? That is now possible because of the ...
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Next Generation Sports Network Streams Major League Soccer With the ...

  • Stephanie Long
  • March 16, 2015
  • Blog
How would you like to watch your favorite major league soccer games from across the globe? “This week, Next Generation Sports Network (NGSN) launched the beta version of ...
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Continuous Deployment to Azure Web Sites with Release Management

  • Harris Boyce
  • March 13, 2015
  • Blog
In my previous post, we looked at the various options available for enabling continuous deployment to Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environments. We'll now take a ...
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Ready to Move Forward with TFS 2013?

  • David Jung
  • March 06, 2015
  • Blog
Are you and your organization still on the fence as to whether you should upgrade to TFS 2013 or Visual Studio Online (VSO)? The recent Microsoft announcement that ...
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Microsoft Azure Media Service Allows Events to be Streamed Live

  • Stephanie Long
  • March 04, 2015
  • Blog
Could you imagine learning and teaching through an event that was streamed live? “On February 16, 2015, over 3,000 medical students and professionals tuned in to the ...
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Continuous Deployments to Azure Platform-as-a-Service Environments

  • Harris Boyce
  • February 25, 2015
  • Blog
In November, Microsoft announced the preview of Release Management as part of Visual Studio Online. This capability allows teams to easily configure automated continuous ...
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TFS 2015 CTP 1 released!

  • Daniel Mann
  • February 24, 2015
  • Blog
Yesterday, Microsoft made the first Community Technology Preview of TFS 2015 available. This is not a supported release, so don't upgrade your TFS 2013 instances (or if ...
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What's Our Industry's Most Popular Buzzword?

  • Stephanie Long
  • February 24, 2015
  • Blog
... DevOps! In a post by Scott W. Ambler on Dr. Dobb’s The World of Software Development he lists these Top 10 Practices for Effective DevOps: Practice 1: Activate ...
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Adding WSJF Calculation to your Feature/Epic WITs

  • David Jung
  • February 17, 2015
  • Blog
A common topic when talking with clients is coming up with better ways to prioritize features in the backlog. Many product owners and Scrum Master might just look at the ...
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Preview of the Future of TFS Build

  • Daniel Mann
  • February 13, 2015
  • Blog
There's really exciting stuff coming in the world of automated build/continuous integration for TFS users!
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TFS to VSO Upgrade Made Easy

  • David Jung
  • February 13, 2015
  • Blog
Since Microsoft released Visual Studio Online (VSO), the cloud version of Team Foundation Server (TFS), there has been a lot discussions about migrating on-premises ...
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Git Vulnerability

  • Daniel Mann
  • December 19, 2014
I just heard through the grapevine about a vulnerability in Git. This affects anyone who's using Git, including TFS-integrated Git.
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Stakeholder licenses in TFS 2013 Update 4

  • Neil Moffatt
  • December 05, 2014
  • Blog
Now that TFS 2013 update 4 is out I wanted to talk about one of the features that may bring a financial incentive for your organization to upgrade. Microsoft changed the ...
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Big News from Microsoft Connect()!

  • Daniel Mann
  • November 12, 2014
  • Blog
Lots of news today from Microsoft Connect -- way too much for one blog post! Here are the highlights:
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Resolving the '0 file(s) transferred successfully' error in Release ...

  • Daniel Mann
  • October 17, 2014
  • Blog
I had a client that was receiving an error message when trying to do a release from Release Management to a server that was configured to transfer the binaries over HTTP.
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Change the build controller for multiple build definitions

  • Daniel Mann
  • October 17, 2014
  • Blog
One of my colleagues recently came to me and mentioned that a customer needed him to set up a new build controller for them, and then migrate several hundred build ...
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Strategy for organizing your network in Windows Azure IaaS

  • Neil Moffatt
  • October 16, 2014
  • Blog
With each subnet the useable IP range begins at ###.###.###.4. In other words the first VM you create in the example above on Subnet-1 would be 10.1.1.4. So let's say we ...
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Git with Visual Studio

  • admin
  • October 08, 2014
  • Video
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Release Management - Deploying to Azure

  • admin
  • October 08, 2014
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Introduction to Desired State Configuration

  • admin
  • October 08, 2014
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Microsoft has named Daniel Mann Most Valuable Professional (MVP)

  • InCycle
  • October 08, 2014
  • Blog
InCycle is proud to announce that Microsoft has named Daniel Mann Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the field of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for the first ...
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CloudFest is coming to your city with Azure Hands-on Lab (HOL)!

  • admin
  • September 19, 2014
Microsoft is organizing CloudFest events all over North America this fall. CloudFest will help developers expand their skillset and get ready for the cloud! Make sure ...
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SAFe Report for TFS and Microsoft Whitepaper Now Available

  • InCycle
  • September 11, 2014
We are very happy to share exciting news with you. Today, the InCycle team has released a SAFe report for TFS to help programs measure feature progress. But that is not ...
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DevOps and Cloud webcast series: Discover the new IT agility model

  • admin
  • August 26, 2014
  • Video
You can now watch on-demand the first presentation of the DevOps and Cloud webcast series featuring Martin Rajotte, CTO at InCycle Software. Martin talks about the new ...
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Visual Studio / TFS / Release Management Update 3 is available!

  • Daniel Mann
  • August 26, 2014
I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but in case you didn't know it already, Update 3 is available for Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, and Release Management.
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Scaling Agile and SAFe Metrics with TFS

  • Barry Paquet
  • August 15, 2014
  • Blog
As organizations target the next level of performance, many are seeking to scale agile to the enterprise. That is, beyond the now well adopted team level and up to and ...
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The GQM approach to prove the value of doing ALM right with metrics

  • Frederic Persoon
  • June 20, 2014
  • Blog
You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right. Warren Buffett
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Deploying uncompiled resources with Release Management

  • Daniel Mann
  • June 18, 2014
  • Blog
Let's say you have a folder in TFS with something you want to deploy, but that resource isn't something you actually compile -- it could be SQL scripts, database ...
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Doing ALM Right: Real World Evidence that ALM Works and a Way to ...

  • Dave Burnison
  • June 10, 2014
  • Blog
When ALM is done right, what can it mean for your bottom line? Over the last few years you've been hearing a lot of talk about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and ...
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IT under pressure? Bring agility with DevOps and Microsoft Cloud

  • Martin Rajotte
  • June 03, 2014
This is part 1 of a series of blogs on DevOps/DevTest with Microsoft's cloud solution called Azure. This first blog outlines why you should think about trying to adopt a ...
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Meet an InCycle team member: David Jung – Senior ALM Consultant

  • admin
  • May 30, 2014
Meet our featured InCycle Team Member of the Month! David Jung recently joined InCycle Software as a Senior ALM Consultant after spending the last 7 years in at ...
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Validating TFS in a regulated environment

  • Neil Moffatt
  • May 28, 2014
  • tfs
We are asked the question all the time about how to execute the validation process to allow for the use of TFS into the production environment. When working with the ...
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Release Management Update 3 CTP 1 is released!

  • Daniel Mann
  • May 23, 2014
  • Blog
Last week, I mentioned that RM Update 3 CTP1 would be out soon... and now it is! The big new feature here is Desired State Configuration support for deploying to both ...
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Improved integration with non-TFS build systems in Release Management ...

  • Daniel Mann
  • May 14, 2014
  • Blog
I was doing some work with Release Management Update 2 today and noticed something that I hadn't seen anyone else talking about yet: It now supports two-part paths for ...
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News from TechEd 2014: Upcoming features for Release Management

  • Daniel Mann
  • May 12, 2014
  • Blog
Some big news for Release Management, hot off the presses from TechEd!
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Release Management Update 2 is now available!

  • Daniel Mann
  • May 12, 2014
  • Blog
Microsoft released Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 today. The Community Technology Preview and Release Candidate versions have been floating around ...
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Desired State Configuration (DSC) 201 - Custom Actions

  • Daniel Mann
  • May 08, 2014
  • Blog
In my last blog post, Desired State Configuration 101 – An intro to DSC, I talked a little bit about what Desired State Configuration is, what you can do with it, and ...
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Using Multiple Work Item Types as Requirements with MTM 2013

  • Neil Moffatt
  • May 08, 2014
Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) ships with some great testing tools. Microsoft Test Manager 2013 (MTM) is a nice tool specializing in the implementation of manual ...
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Desired State Configuration 101 – An intro to DSC

  • Daniel Mann
  • May 07, 2014
  • Blog
Hello! I want to take a break from talking about Release Management today and tackle a slightly different topic: Desired State Configuration (DSC). Release Management is ...
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Barry Paquet is now an ALM ranger

  • admin
  • April 30, 2014
We are thrilled to announce that Barry Paquet, ALM Practice Director for the West Coast, is now part of the ALM Rangers team! Barry Paquet is contributing to the ALM ...
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Visual Studio Online: more than just keeping your source code in the ...

  • admin
  • April 25, 2014
  • Blog
So, you've been reading all the great stuff out there about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) & Team Foundation Server (TFS) and how this can streamline your ...
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Meet an InCycle team member: William H. Salazar – Senior ALM ...

  • InCycle
  • April 24, 2014
  • Blog
Meet our featured InCycle Team Member of the Month! William H. Salazar recently joined InCycle Software as a Senior Development Consultant after spending the last 9 ...
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Electronic Signature Compliance (CFR 21 Part 11) with Microsoft TFS ...

  • Neil Moffatt
  • April 19, 2014
  • Blog
Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2013 is rapidly growing as a leader in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) domain. More and more we are finding that ...
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Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC is now available

  • Neil Moffatt
  • April 03, 2014
  • Blog
Yesterday Microsoft published the release candidate for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. So the moment has finally arrived where we can start to use these great new features ...
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[Video] Scaled Agile Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio ALM

  • admin
  • March 26, 2014
Recorded webcast about SAFe and Microsoft Visual Studio ALM presented by Barry Paquet from InCycle Software: ...
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Meet an InCycle team member: Daniel Mann - Senior Software ...

  • InCycle
  • March 24, 2014
  • Blog
Meet our featured InCycle Team Member of the Month! Daniel Mann has worked at InCycle Software as a Senior Development Consultant since 2012.
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Using Git with Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio 2013

  • Daniel Mann
  • March 17, 2014
  • Blog
By now, chances are good you've at least heard of Git. It's been making a big splash among developers for the past few years, and now it's a first-class citizen in TFS ...
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Understanding Rollbacks in Release Management for Visual Studio

  • Daniel Mann
  • March 07, 2014
  • Blog
We tend to focus on the "happy path" when it comes to Release Management. However, in the real world, we periodically find ourselves on the "unhappy path", where things ...
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Deploying Database with Release Management for Visual Studio

  • Daniel Mann
  • March 05, 2014
  • Blog
Database deployments are notoriously tricky. Luckily, we have some great tools available to ease the pain! I will show how to use Release Management to manage database ...
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What is Azure Dev Test and Why Should You Care?

  • Barry Paquet
  • February 27, 2014
  • Blog
Azure Dev Test allows you to develop and test applications faster at lower costs. As organizations face increasing pressure to develop, test and deliver more software ...
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Azure Dev Test Engagement Offer

  • Nathalie Feau
  • February 26, 2014
  • Blog
As a Windows Azure Partner, InCycle teamed up with Microsoft to provide a special offer to help you get started with your Azure Dev Test initiative. Offer valid until ...
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The New TFS 2013 Agile Planning Features in Update 2

  • Dave Burnison
  • February 20, 2014
UPDATE 3/3/14: Last week Microsoft announced the “go-live release of Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 2 RC”. Therefore, you can apply the Update 2 RC release to an ...
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Potential ROI using Visual Studio TFS ALM: Infographics with ...

  • Nathalie Feau
  • February 10, 2014
  • Blog
Are you currently evaluating Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS)? InCycle created infographics with key results of a report published by Forrester in 2013. This ...
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Executing Selenium UI Tests from Release Management

  • Daniel Mann
  • February 07, 2014
  • Blog
Hello again, everyone! A few days ago, I was asked a question about running Selenium UI tests from Release Management. I knew it was possible, but I didn't know what the ...
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New Feature for Release Management for Visual Studio Update 2: Server ...

  • Daniel Mann
  • February 06, 2014
  • Blog
Yesterday, Microsoft announced the availability of Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server (TFS), and Release Management 2013 Update 2 CTP 1. There are lots of great new ...
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Instrumenting applications with Dotfuscator via Team Build

  • Daniel Mann
  • January 29, 2014
  • Blog
If you're using PreEmptive Analytics for Team Foundation Server or Dotfuscator and have automated builds via Team Foundation Server, you've probably thought, "I'd love ...
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New Microsoft Vouchers for Agile deployment assessment with Visual ...

  • admin
  • January 17, 2014
  • Blog
For Software Assurance customers, Microsoft added a third voucher to the Development Tools Deployment Planning services (DTDPS) program. The voucher for Agile deployment ...
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Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) goals for 2014

  • Nathalie Feau
  • January 16, 2014
  • Blog
Some of us tend to kick off the New Year with new goals, perhaps even professional goals. If you haven't thought of your 2014 goals yet, we might be able to help. The ...
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ALM Ranger Champions 2014: David Pitcher nominated for his DevOps ...

  • InCycle
  • January 16, 2014
We are pleased to announce that David Pitcher, Senior ALM consultant at InCycle and ALM Ranger has been nominated in the "Geek" Champion category. David has been ...
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What is the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Why Should You Care?

  • Barry Paquet
  • January 15, 2014
  • Blog
As a long time product management professional and agile coach, I welcome any opportunity that delivers business impact and allows organizations to achieve remarkable ...
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The value of Release Management for Visual Studio

  • Daniel Mann
  • December 18, 2013
  • Blog
When I was working with a customer using TFS 2013, the software development manager recently asked me, "Why should we use Release Management for Visual Studio?", and ...
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Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 FAQ

  • Daniel Mann
  • November 26, 2013
  • Blog
How to install, upgrade and buy Release Management for Visual Studio Earlier this year, Microsoft acquired InCycle's release management tool, InRelease. There have been ...
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Visual Studio 2013 Launch Event in New York

  • Dave Burnison
  • November 14, 2013
  • Blog
Yesterday I had the privilege of attending the Visual Studio 2013 launch event in New York. Microsoft pulled out all of the stops to put on a great event. Having already ...
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Scaling Agile at an Enterprise level: SAFe and TFS

  • admin
  • November 13, 2013
  • Blog
Yesterday, Barry Paquet and Martin Rajotte showed a great presentation that demonstrated how to apply the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) with Team Foundation Server at an ...
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Agile at enterprise level with SAFe training and certification

  • admin
  • October 22, 2013
  • Blog
InCycle is proud to announce a new set of services for organizations that want to implement Agile at an enterprise level. InCycle now provides Scaled Agile Framework ...
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How to access control Kanban board customization in TFS

  • Sahas Subramanian
  • October 16, 2013
  • Blog
If you have been looking for a way to control access around Kanban board customization – unfortunately there wasn't anything in TFS 2012. Any team member could change ...
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Requirements Management for the Enterprise in TFS 2013 (Portfolio ...

  • Neil Moffatt
  • September 13, 2013
  • Blog
Managing requirements for large projects can be a daunting task. Typically for Enterprise scale projects there could be thousands of requirements from high level visions ...
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TFS 2013 Upgrade Weekend

  • Neil Moffatt
  • September 12, 2013
With the release of TFS 2013 around the corner Microsoft is offering free technical support for those wishing to take the plunge the weekend of Sept 14th. From Sept ...
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How to do a silent install of InRelease deployers

  • Daniel Mann
  • September 11, 2013
When I'm demoing InRelease, one of the questions that seems to come up a lot is "How can I perform a silent install of the InRelease deployer?" The deployer is the ...
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How to display multiple burndown reports in a single team project

  • Neil Moffatt
  • September 11, 2013
By default the Sprint Burndown report is not displayed on the SharePoint Team Portal site. If you are working in an environment with many teams with dashboards for the ...
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Can ONE Team Project Collection idea work for large enterprises?

  • Sahas Subramanian
  • September 03, 2013
  • Blog
I guess you would have noticed TFS Internal usage statistics in the VS ALM blog. If not, here is the link ...
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Migrate SVN to TFS, its free ..

  • Sahas Subramanian
  • August 10, 2013
  • Blog
Is there is any tool to migrate Subversion/SVN to TFS?
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How easy it’s to migrate SVN to TFS 2013 (Git Repo)

  • Sahas Subramanian
  • August 08, 2013
  • Blog
If you wonder what's happening with Git & TFS combination, spend a few minutes here
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Version Control with TFS 2013 Git Repository

  • Sahas Subramanian
  • August 02, 2013
  • Blog
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Git in Visual Studio ALM world

  • Sahas Subramanian
  • August 02, 2013
  • Blog
With increasing popularity of Distributed Version Control System (DVCS), Git – one of the widely used DVCS got added into Visual Studio ALM family. This happened earlier ...
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[Video] A lap around InRelease - Recorded webcast

  • InCycle
  • July 19, 2013
  • Blog
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InRelease deployment scenarios: list of tools and actions available

  • Nathalie Feau
  • July 17, 2013
  • Blog
One of the goal of InRelease is to help you define your release pipeline with pre-defined actions and tools to cover most of your .NET deployment scenarios. Custom ...
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Why you should care about DevOps?

  • Frederic Persoon
  • July 15, 2013
  • Blog
Did you read the news about Microsoft purchasing InRelease, our DevOps product? Great news for all Microsoft ALM platform adopters. The DevOps movement is great! But…if ...
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Video: Quality Enablement Series #2: Create and manage automated ...

  • InCycle
  • May 13, 2013
  • Blog
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Team Foundation Server 2012 – Update 2 – Step-by-step

  • Kris Lankford
  • April 26, 2013
  • Blog
As many of you know the cadence for Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio are becoming a regular occurrence (quarterly). Having said that the team has gotten feedback ...
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Visual Studio and TFS 2012 Update 2 is here!

  • Kris Lankford
  • April 25, 2013
  • Blog
We folks it is finally here. Update 2 for Team Foundation Server 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 we are getting a lot of new features and some fixes. Below I have ...
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InRelease 3.2: Release Management made easier for development teams

  • InRelease
  • April 23, 2013
  • Blog
Today, InCycle announces InRelease 3.2. This version includes important features to manage the configuration of automated deployments for faster and simpler releases. ...
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