Visual Studio Lab Management videos
UPDATE (27 Oct 2010): All videos are now updated with a narration, and uploaded as part of MSDN ‘How Do I’ video series for online viewing. The table below is updated with the new links.
Based on popular demand, here are the videos of the different scenarios and concepts in lab management, to help you get started quickly. The first video is an overview and the subsequent 6 videos are part of a ‘How-to’ series starting from setup.
You can read the summary of each video below.
Title |
Description |
Duration |
Provides an overview of how lab management fits into Visual Studio 2010, the various components, and the following key scenarios:
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07:44 |
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Walks you through the setup and configuration steps. Shows you how to setup the Virtual Machine Manager server and how to configure lab management on Team Foundation Server. The pre-requisites for this scenario are:
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07:27 |
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Walks you through the experience of creating your first virtual environment. Illustrates the two ways to create a new virtual environment – compose environment using running VMs and create a new environment using templates in the library. The pre-requisites for this scenario are:
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08:26 |
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Shows you how to create build and test artifacts needed to deploy your build on the environment and to run test cases. These artifacts are pre-requisites for the scenarios in the next two videos. The pre-requisites for this scenario are:
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07:51 |
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Walks you through the experience of authoring and running a workflow to build your application, restore environment to a clean snapshot, deploy the build on your environment, take a post deployment snapshot, and run build verification tests. The pre-requisites for this scenario are:
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07:01 |
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Shows you how to file rich bugs with the environment snapshot, as you run manual tests. Also shows you how the developer can connect to the environment snapshot from the bug to reproduce the error. The pre-requisites for this scenario are:
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06:06 |
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Shows you how to create network isolated environments, how to use an application that needs the VMs to be domain joined on such an environment, and how to clone environments without creating conflicts on the network. The pre-requisites for this scenario are:
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08:03 |
Hopefully, these videos will help you in adopting and using lab management. Take a look and tell us what you think.
Comments
Anonymous
February 15, 2010
Hi there, First of many kudos to the great work you guys have been doing in the Lab management space. The products looks very mature for a pilot release. The Video's you have uploaded dont have audio. Not sure if that is how it is ment to be or if there is something wrong. Please advice. Arun R, Support engineer - Microsoft, TFS install and setup - Americas reagion. arunrama@microsoft.comAnonymous
February 16, 2010
Hi Arun, Thank you and I am glad you like the product. The videos currently dont have audio. They only have the call-outs. We are working on adding audio to it and getting it published for online viewing. We will have this update soon. -Darshan DesaiAnonymous
June 11, 2010
Are these videos located any place other than skydrive.live.com?Anonymous
June 23, 2010
Do we have any newer versions of these videos with audio enabled :)Anonymous
June 30, 2010
The links are not working and the videos are not downloadable. Please do the necessary corrections.Anonymous
August 04, 2010
Sky drive is blocked at my work. It would be nice to have a more offical location for these videos.Anonymous
August 24, 2010
I can run load tests with lab centre ? I can do to stop the build if the threshold of tests load is exceededAnonymous
October 12, 2010
Please refer to videos with audio @ msdn.microsoft.com/.../ff945982.aspxAnonymous
October 13, 2010
Just wondering whether you have any PowerPoint decks for Lab Management as I'll need to present this to my customers early next week.Anonymous
October 26, 2010
All videos are now updated with a narration, and uploaded as part of MSDN ‘How Do I’ video series for online viewing. The table in the post is updated with the new links.Anonymous
October 26, 2010
All videos are now updated with a narration, and uploaded as part of MSDN ‘How Do I’ video series for online viewing. The table in the post is updated with the new links.Anonymous
November 08, 2010
How can I add deployment items from my solution for lab management test settings? I only see how to add local deployment items....Anonymous
November 10, 2010
Where can I get a copy of the source code and solution file that's used in the vidoes to repro the steps myself?Anonymous
November 17, 2010
You can use Lab Management VHD which has sample project, code etc and try all these lab scenarios available at go.microsoft.com/fwlinkAnonymous
September 14, 2011
Can VSTS Lab Management be used for Citrix based Load / Performance Testing? As per the comments from one of the Microsoft blog, VSTS 2010 does not support Citrix based load / performance testing. Would like to know whether the integration of Lab Management enable Citrix based Load / Performance testing. Appreciate if someone reply with their experience for the above situation.Anonymous
March 27, 2012
Do you need to install Lab Management if you are not going to use Hyper-V but plan to use the Controller and Agents to run automation?Anonymous
September 26, 2012
Hi , Do you have any document how to set up physical environment in Lab Management , MTM2010. Our requirement is running Coded UI tests in Lab Environment. The coded UI tests are running fine in local machine. We have 20 lab machines running on different windows operating systems. I need to run the coded UI tests in all the configurations. To achieve this, For testing purpose, I have installed test agents in two of the lab machines and installed Test controller in my own machine where I have developed the coded UI tests and I have created a lab environment in MTM 2010. When I am running the Coded UI tests from Test Agent1 through MTM 2010, it ran perfectly fine. I opened the MTM2010 from test agent1 and started running the coded ui test and it ran fine. Meaning it launched the software that needs to be tested and executed the test case. When I tried running the same Coded UI tests from Test Agent2 through MTM2010, the test status directly showing passed very fast without executing the tests. Can you help me resolving the issue? Also I need to know, am I doing correct way or not, or is there any better way for this solution. Also if you have any documents, please share with me.