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Microsoft Release Management is a tool that allows you to automate the release and deployment cycle of software. It is part of Visual Studio / Team Foundation Server 2013 and beyond.

Microsoft Release Management was originally a tool called InRelease, created by InCycle Software. Microsoft acquired the tool in mid-2013 and integrated it into Visual Studio / Team Foundation Server 2013.

The software consists of three components:

  1. A server
  2. A client
  3. A deployer agent

Using the client, you connect to your release management server and configure what applications you're deploying, how they should be deployed, and what servers they should be deployed to. In addition, you can specify who within your organization is responsible for approving each stage of your release.

This application has been deprecated as of 2015. It is no longer receiving new features or updates, and has been entirely replaced by Azure Pipelines.

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How to stop an in-progress release with the Microsoft Release Management client?

How do I stop/cancel a started and in-progress release deployment using the Microsoft Release Management client?
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Release Management with ClickOnce

Recently I have been trying to use Microsoft Release Management 2013 to deploy a click once application, but I can not find any "Tools" or "Actions" inside the inventory section. How can I deploy this? Is it possible? Do I need to create a custom…
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Release Management for Visual Studio - Not Working

Anybody able to successfully install/configure Release Management Server for TFS/Visual Studio 2013? Went through simple install of SQL Express 2014/Release Management Server on both Win 8.1 Pro and Win Server 2012 R2 and the attached image is the…
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How to configure Release path in Microsoft Release Management 2013 to deploy only to QA environment?

I have been successful in creating a release path from DEV -> QA environment deployment. The problem that I am facing is how do I deploy the changes only to a specific environment, like skipping DEV. No doubt that its possible with DEV environment…
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Work items associated with releases

I have a vNext release that is triggered by a gated check-in build. The associated changeset is linked with an work item. What I have to check in order to have the linked work item displayed in the Change Summary tab of the release as in this link?
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Back up to and restore from a folder with date time stamp in its name

I have an Agent-based Release Template. The Deployment Sequence includes three steps: Make a back-up copy of the destination folder (using standard Copy File or Folder action) Execute some custom component In case of failure, restore content of the…
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Microsoft Release Management : option to switch deployment order in a tag does not exist?

On this page it's described that "Now you can use tags with the servers in your Azure or on-premises (standard) environments. ...With tags you can also switch the deployment order from parallel to sequence." See this picture: However in our version…
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TFS Release Management and GlobalAssemblyInfo

My Visual Studio Solution has a GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs to assign version info to the binaries etc... The build number I use for example is 3.4.* which means 3 is the major version, 4 is the minor version and the wildcard gives me an automated build…
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Release Management xcopy Access Denied

I have TFS Build and Release Management, when the release does xcopy raises an error "Access denied". I delete folder manually, after i return a release and restart task and the result is done succesed
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Release management email notification not sending

No email notification is sending from my RM system on releases. Following things has been done: Smtp setting has been updated in the system Enabled approver notification in 'Acceptance step' and 'validation step'. Email id is updated and 'Receive…
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Release Triggered by build does not contain TFS metadata

Weve been trying to implement Microsoft's Release Management into our CI\CD process between trusted and untrusted servers. The TFBuild server drops the compiled files onto the drop folder via FTP as post build script, and goes on to trigger the…
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Release Management Configure DACPAC Variables

I am trying to configure variables (Tokens) inside one of our Stored Procedures which is part of DACPAC project. I have attempted to do this in the same way you would with a config file. I.e Create a duplicate file with the ext token. Replace the…
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OperationFailedException when using vNext template in Microsoft Release Management

I am getting the following error while running a workflow in microsoft release management 2013 update 4: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.AggregateException: One or…
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Release management server succeeds manual, but fails automated

I'm trying to configure release management server to deploy to out test server when a specific build configuration on TFS succeeds. Now I have a build definition which runs fine, I use the build process template 'ReleaseTfvcTemplate.12.xaml'. The…
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Encrypting connection strings for a web farm in Release Management

I am on Visual Studio/Release Management 2013.4. Has anyone written a tool for the toolbox to encrypt web.config files for a web farm? I know you can do it manually with aspnet_regiis.exe but was just wondering if someone had worked out a good…
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