The document provides details about a webinar on Visual Studio Online (VSO) led by Abhishek Chandra from Winwire Technologies, covering features, collaboration tools, and the benefits of VSO over traditional TFS. It includes information on how to address audio issues, ask questions, and access a recording of the session. Future webinar details are also announced, focusing on designing apps using Azure SQL Database.

1. Visual Studio Online – Collaborate in
the Cloud
Notes:
 If you experience audio issues during the webinar, you can dial in through telephone details provided to you in your
registration confirmation email.
 Please feel free to post questions in the questions dialog and we will try to answer as many as we can at the end.
 Recording of this session will be shared in next 24-48 hours.
 You can also write to us at marketing@winwire.com for any clarifications or information.

2. Session Speaker
Abhishek Chandra
Technical Lead
WinWire Technologies

3. Agenda
Demo
Additional Services offered as part of VSO
Visual Studio Team Services features
What is Visual Studio Online (VSO) ?
Questions
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4. Visual Studio Online
Plan, build, deploy and
manage applications using a
comprehensive suite of
services that is accessible to
the entire team

5. Visual Studio Online

6. Visual Studio Online
Prioritize and validate investments
based on qualitative and quantitative
data
Quickly detect and resolve application
issues
Diagnostics for production
is an afterthought

7. Visual Studio Team Services
Cloud
collaboration tools
for teams
Tools for agile
teams
Continuous
integration
Integration with
custom tool

8. Options for users to access VSO

9. Sign up for Visual Studio Team Services

10. Connect to Visual Studio Team Services

11. TFS vs Git
TFS Git
Centralized Distributed
Branching requires different workspace Branching is lightweight and path
independent.
File history is not replicated on the client
dev machine
File history is replicated on the client dev
machine
Check in is made for complete file Only additional change committed

12. Manage users and their access

13. Change application access policies for your account

14. Linking Visual Studio Team Services account to Azure
subscription

15. Additional Services Visual Studio Team Services

16. Manage Team Services account access with
Azure Active Directory

17. Work -Create your backlog

18. Kanban

19. Scrum

20. Application Insights

21. VSO Build Service
Hosted Build Controller -
automatically added
• Free amount: 60 Minutes / month (per
VSO account)
Pre-Configured
Customizable
• Ability to run Custom Build Activities or
Build Process Templates
• Run custom scripts (Batch, PowerShell,
command line tools) as part of your
builds
Flexibility
• Run and connect on-premises build
agents to your VSO account

22. TFS Admin Life before VSO
Initial Setup of TFS
Environment
Maintenance Tasks
The Life of a VSO
Admin

23. VSO v/s TFS
Features TFS VSO
Work Items, Version Control and Build Yes Yes
Agile Product/Project Management Yes Yes
Test Case Management Yes Yes
Ease of Installation and setup +/- ++
Collaborate with anyone from anywhere +/- ++
Data Stays inside your network Yes No
Process Template and work item customization Yes No
SharePoint Integration Yes No
Data Warehouse and reporting Yes No
CodeLens Support (for TFVC) Yes No
Load Testing Service (Cloud load testing) No Yes
Application Insights(Preview) No Yes
Always running the latest version of TFS No Yes

24. Demo

25. Q & A
Next Webinar
Topic : How to Design apps using Azure
SQL database
When: Feb 24th at 9am PT
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