Release Management for Visual Studio Team Foundation

1. TFS – RELEASE MANAGER
VERSION (1.0)
MOUDLE NAME
RELEASE MANAGER
SUBMITTED FOR
MIC
SUBMITTED BY
ARCOM

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1. TABLE OF CONTENT
1. TABLE OF CONTENT ...................................................................................................................2
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 OVERVIEW.................................................................................................................................3
 DETAILED POINTS ......................................................................................................................3
 DEPLOYMENT OVERVIEW ..........................................................................................................3
3. CONFIGURAITON STEPS .............................................................................................................4
 FIRST TIME CONFIGURATION.....................................................................................................4
 RELEASE MANAGEMENT STEPS..................................................................................................4
3.1. ADMINISTRATION CONFIGURATION ............................................................................5
3.2. RELEASE PATH CONFIGURATION..................................................................................7
3.3. RELEASE TEMPLATE CONFIGURATION..........................................................................9
3.4. RELEASE EXECUTION CONFIGURATION ......................................................................10
4. TIPS / TRICKS ...........................................................................................................................11
4.1. CONNECTION STRING COMPONENT [Configuration Variables] .................................11

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2. TFS RELEASE MANAGEMENT
 OVERVIEW
 Release management is a continuous deployment solution
 makes release cycles repeatable, visible and more efficient by automating
deployments through every environment from Team Foundation Server (TFS) until
production.
 DETAILED POINTS
Release Management Components
1. Release Management Client:
 Desktop application to manage release information
 Web client is used to act on Approval Request
2. Release Management Server:
 heart of release management components
 Web and Windows Services that expose contracts used by all other
components
 DEPLOYMENT OVERVIEW

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3. CONFIGURAITON STEPS
 FIRST TIME CONFIGURATION
 RELEASE MANAGEMENT STEPS

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3.1. ADMINISTRATION CONFIGURATION
3.1.1. SMTP server Configurations
3.1.2. TFS Connection Configurations
3.1.3. Configure Users

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3.1.4. Configure Groups
3.1.5. Pickup List (Stages – Technology)

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3.2. RELEASE PATH CONFIGURATION
3.2.1. Server Configuration
3.2.2. Environment Configuration

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3.2.3. Release Path Configuration

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3.3. RELEASE TEMPLATE CONFIGURATION
3.3.1. Release Path Build Definition
3.3.2. Release Path Build Definition

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3.4. RELEASE EXECUTION CONFIGURATION
3.4.1. Start Release
3.4.2. Approve Release

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4. TIPS / TRICKS
4.1. CONNECTION STRING COMPONENT [Configuration Variables]
4.1.1. Overview
create new component that copy values from release manager to
configuration file web.config using xcopy tool
4.1.2. Steps
1. Regular web Config app settings
2. Replace regular to release configuration variable syntax

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3. Add New Component in release template in specific stage
4. Use Xcopy Tool

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5. Add Configuration Variable with same name in web config
(Eg. DBNAME)
6. Add Component in Release Template Stage

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7. Write variable value in stage (Eg. Database name for test stage)
8. Final Result After Deploy the Release